Eggcorn: momento

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:48 PM -0700 10/11/08, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Momento itself gets 322 million supposed hits, a lot of which are
>doubtless for the movie. It's "corporate momentos" (the item I
>happened to be looking up) that gets 90. BB

Perhaps worth noting that the movie (and quite a movie it was) is
"Memento".  Most of the albums, bands, etc. with this name use the
traditional spelling as well.  On the other hand, there is an album
by a Portuguese musician named Pedro Abrunhosa ("known for always
wearing sunglasses in public") which is in fact "Momento".  But I
assume this is like the Italian "(uno) momento", corresponding to
'moment', not 'memento'.  In fact, I wonder how many of the (now)
281,000,000 hits actually correspond to the Romance language terms
for 'moment' rather than respellings of "memento".

LH

>On Oct 11, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>Only *ninety*?! "Momento" is surely two days older than water!
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>>On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com
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>>>For memento, perhaps because you remember the moment.
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>>>"corporate momentos" gets 90 hits on Google. BB
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