Eggcorn: grandeloquent

[Charles C Doyle]

Or just a slight re-formation based on the same etymology--or the vowel change (which we have discussed here) that permits /I/ to manifest itself as [E] in certain environments, in some dialects--for instance, "pillow" as [pElo] or [pEl@], or "milk" as [mElk]?

If there is an NPR transcript, I'm guessing it gives the "correct" spelling.

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Neal Whitman [nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET]
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 9:16 AM

On NPR this morning, Frank Daford said LeBron James had "grandEloquently" declared he was "taking [his] talents to Miami."

No entry in ECDB when I searched, but I do find it in a book of "Beastly Mispronunciations", and in several pages noting the error and giving the correct spelling.

Neal

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