Comeupins

[Joel S. Berson]

A slurring of "come uppings" (or with a hyphen)?  OED2 has early
quotes for "come-upping[s]" under "comeuppance".

Joel

At 12/20/2007 05:14 AM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>A recently published author clued me into this spelling of "comeuppance".
>
>"Does Karma exist? Or is it just comeupins?"
>(http://valleytalk.net/showthread.php?t=5903)
>
>"I'd like to see those responsible get their 'comeupins'."
>(http://www.politicalcrossfire.com/forum/archive.php/o_t__t_59942__start_40__index.html)
>
>There are 1310 Googits, though many seem to be for a person whose handle
>is comeupins.
>
>It seems to be an eggcorn of sorts, or a sounded out spelling at least.
>But the spelling doesn't really seem to reflect the sound at the end of
>the word "ns" for "ts". Perhaps there's a different pronunciation or
>perhaps people are looking at "-pins" differently than I do.
>
>Benjamin Barrett
>a cyberbreath for language life
>livinglanguages.wordpress.com
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