chic'

[Herb Stahlke]

Chic' could be an odd sort of eggcorn.  The meaning chick=girl gives it the
semantic connection.  It would be the first eggcorn I've seen that uses an
apostrophe as its marker.

Herb


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I wonder how the people running that site pronounce Chic.
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> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:08 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > HS:  <<Chic jeans . . . late 80s or early 90s . . .  At that time "chic"
> > was pronounced "chick" more generally by teenagers.  I don't know how far
> > that pronunciation spread.>>
> > WB:  W3 1961 lists [sheek] ~ [shIck] for <chic> 'style' ~ 'stylish'; no
> > *[tsh-]. I have heard [shIck] on OTR; I, however, (born 1948) associate
> > [shIck] with the Schick razor (1926+), which BTW offers stylish razors
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> > chicks. My notes have <Chic wide shoes, extra-wide shoes> with [tsh-],
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> > 1992. As I gsearch, I stumble upon a webpage (http://www.chicshoes.ae/)
> > with HS's <chic'>: Looks like a Polish <c> with accent aigu (U+0107).
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