"Nobeloriate" -- eggcorn or error?
JoAnne Schmitz
'Raould Hoffmann (2 time Nobeloriate in theoretical chemistry) said: "The
vast majority of great things comes not in one flash of progress, but the
accumulation of small things".'
I found three other web pages containing the word "Nobeloriate" with a
Google search.
-JoAnne
Bill Bonde ('by a commodius vicus of recirculation')
It would be similar to the suffix 'holic' added to a word to show that
the person is overly disposed towards that thing or activity, though
'oriate' hasn't yet reached that level of ubiquitous productivity.
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"He's asking if you killed Freddie Miles and then killed Dickie
Greenleaf."
"No, I did not kill Freddie Miles and then kill Dickie Greenleaf."
-+Thomas Ripley using Bill Clinton logic, "The Talented Mr Ripley"
R H Draney
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greeting the new sheriff
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R H Draney
>
>It would be similar to the suffix 'holic' added to a word to show that
>the person is overly disposed towards that thing or activity, though
>'oriate' hasn't yet reached that level of ubiquitous productivity.
I've got a couple of people in cubicles near mine here at the office who eagerly
await the Friday newspaper with its supplment for Fry's Electronics...a weekend
doesn't go by that one of them doesn't stop off to pick up something new to
fasten to one of several computers at home...I've started calling him (to his
face) a technoholic (=AngloSaxon "gadget geek")....r
Charles Riggs
wrote:
I think the word is all right, but the quoted sentence is horrible. I
know what he was trying to say, but almost any AUEer could have said
it better.
--
Charles Riggs
Ben Zimmer
There are also some Googlehits for "Nobelaureate" and "Nobelauriate"
(the former appearing on two Wikipedia pages that have been reproduced
on several other sites). "Nobeloriate" does seem a bit eggcornier --
perhaps influenced by "professoriate"? In any case, I've put it in the
database: <http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/378/nobeloriate/>.
Mark Brader
> > ...I found three other web pages containing the word "Nobeloriate"
> > with a Google search.
Ben Zimmer:
> There are also some Googlehits for "Nobelaureate" and "Nobelauriate"
> (the former appearing on two Wikipedia pages that have been reproduced
"Nobelaureate" strikes me as Timestyle -- i.e. the sort of writing that
would have appeared in Time magazine in its early days. I don't remember
any specific examples, but I do believe they coined some portmanteau
words (or as the RHU boringly defines that term, "blends") like that.
--
Mark Brader "Male got pregnant -- on the first try."
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m...@vex.net November 30, 1987
Ben Zimmer
>
> JoAnne Schmitz:
> > > ...I found three other web pages containing the word "Nobeloriate"
> > > with a Google search.
>
> Ben Zimmer:
> > There are also some Googlehits for "Nobelaureate" and "Nobelauriate"
> > (the former appearing on two Wikipedia pages that have been
> > reproduced on several other sites). ...
>
> "Nobelaureate" strikes me as Timestyle -- i.e. the sort of writing
> that would have appeared in Time magazine in its early days. I don't
> remember any specific examples, but I do believe they coined some
> portmanteau words (or as the RHU boringly defines that term, "blends")
> like that.
Among the portmanteaus coined by _Time_, as recorded by articles in the
journal _American Speech_:
booklegger, boxofficially, Broadwayfarer, cinecomedian, cinemactor,
cinemaddict, cinemaelstrom, cinemagazine, cinemagnate, cinemansion,
cinemogul, cinemoppet, circulogical, cricketiquette, Dieselectric,
dramateur, Hoovercrat, legtimiactor, musicomedienne, musicomedy,
omnibusiness, politricks, Prohibishop, radiorator, sexational
And one of the magazine's most famous coinages, "socialite", was
apparently a portmanteau of "social light", respelled to take advantage
of the "-ite" suffix.
No "Nobelaureate", but they did use "Nobelity", a pun on "nobility"
("It was not only for _Babbitt_ that Author Lewis was raised to the
Nobelity").
R H Draney
>
>Among the portmanteaus coined by _Time_, as recorded by articles in the
>journal _American Speech_:
>
>booklegger, boxofficially, Broadwayfarer, cinecomedian, cinemactor,
>cinemaddict, cinemaelstrom, cinemagazine, cinemagnate, cinemansion,
>cinemogul, cinemoppet, circulogical, cricketiquette, Dieselectric,
>dramateur, Hoovercrat, legtimiactor, musicomedienne, musicomedy,
>omnibusiness, politricks, Prohibishop, radiorator, sexational
>
>And one of the magazine's most famous coinages, "socialite", was
>apparently a portmanteau of "social light", respelled to take advantage
>of the "-ite" suffix.
>
>No "Nobelaureate", but they did use "Nobelity", a pun on "nobility"
>("It was not only for _Babbitt_ that Author Lewis was raised to the
>Nobelity").
I'm still pulling for my coinage describing the highest tier of those who
compose seventeen-syllable verse: "haikuratti"....r