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If it's of any consolation, I knew about the connection before this article. FWIW, "handedly" means "easily". "Won handedly" means "Won easily". Wiktionary say
by dalke 10y ago
If it's of any consolation, I knew about the connection before this article.
FWIW, "handedly" means "easily". "Won handedly" means "Won easily". Wiktionary says it's non-standard, and prefers handedly - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handedly https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handedly . See https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Won+handedly%22&t=ffsb&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Won+handedly%22&t=ffsb&ia=web for other examples of "won handedly" in use.
The "show"/"shop" is indeed a typo. Here's the original: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NX4AAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=%22unable+to+stray+very+far+from+the+vicinity+of+a+reliable+repair+shop%22&source=bl&ots=PoVou09kW5&sig=SuN7jCOSt7OAOOs6t30mfqUTnPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW1__YsuHNAhVHKMAKHbNbCrsQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=%22unable%20to%20stray%20very%20far%20from%20the%20vicinity%20of%20a%20reliable%20repair%20shop%22&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NX4AAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg... .
- dragonwriter 10y ago"Handily" means the same as "easily", and "won handily" is, naturally, a common equivalent of "won easily". "Won handedly" seems to be a malapropism based on hearing that expression, misunderstanding the second word but understanding tge intended meaning, and then adopting the transformed phrase with the meaning of the original.
- dalke 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen , and variations therein.