columnbarium

[Herb Stahlke]

Well, the nearest we had to pigeon abode in rural Michigan was a
purple martin mansion.  Pigeons lack that dignity.

Herb

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Pigeon _house_?" "Pigeon _coop_," whar ah'm from, pardner.
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> OTOH, "chicken house" is non-distinct from "chicken coop."
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> On 5/15/09, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I thought I had posted on this before, but a search of the ADS-L
>> archives and of the Eggcorn Database turned up nothing.
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>> A columbarium is a dove-cote or pigeon house but alse means an
>> underground tomb with niches for cineraria or the niches themselves.
>> The word gets 592k raw googits.  Mortuaries have been building what
>> might be called columned patios or memorial gardens that they call a
>> "columnbarium," sometimes containing niches for cineraria.
>> "Columnbarium" gets 1360 raw googits, Woodlawn Cemetery has the
>> following description that uses both spellings:
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>> Columbariums. A Columnbarium is a building or structure where niche
>> space may be selected. Like all Woodlawn mausoleums, our Columbariums
>> are constructed of granite, glass, marble and bronze.
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>> The term is also used for a head stone with columns, and in at least
>> one case the word is written "column barium" making the sense of the
>> reanalysis clear even though there is no meaning for "barium,"
>> certainly not the element.
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>> Perhaps an eggcorn.
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>> Herb
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