pastures anew: eggcorn?

David Bergdahl dlbrgdhl at GMAIL.COM
Sun Sep 16 13:53:33 UTC 2007


Cf. Milton's "Lycidas"  "Tomorrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new" [last
line]
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On 9/16/07, Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Not sure if this counts as an eggcorn, but received this today:
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> "Farewell, I am leaving Sussex for pastures anew."
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> 2000 google hits for 'pastures anew' (vs. 225K for 'pastures new').
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> The thing is, 'pastures new' seems to make more sense.  'Anew' just sounds
> more marked than 'new', so perhaps it seems more right to put it into a
> marked N-Adj structure?
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> Lynne
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