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It has manner/manor, but it's missing my favourite one: "to the manor born". There was an English TV series named that (as a pun), and probably a majority of pe
by omnicognate 2y ago
It has manner/manor, but it's missing my favourite one: "to the manor born". There was an English TV series named that (as a pun), and probably a majority of people here don't realise that the original phrase is "to the manner born", from Shakespeare. Arguably it's not even an eggcorn but a phrase in its own right now, so maybe that's why it's not listed.
- sundarurfriend 2y agoI've never heard that expression in either of those forms
- floam 2y agoThey’re both “right”, people with manors have manners, so I’m not sure but think that might dq it as an eggcorn.
- tialaramex 2y agoThe idea of the eggcorn database is that these are descriptivist linguists - they believe language already existed anyway and they're just explaining an observable phenomenon, not somehow dictating what is or is not English. Some of these changes just remain forever considered mistakes. If you woke up a hundred years from now the chance everybody calls the little things which fall from oak trees "eggcorns" is negligible, they're acorns, you've misheard. But on the other hand it's possible that in 2124 everybody considers "bi-election" normal as duh, there was an extra election, that's two, so bi-election, losing the analysis which got us the current word "by-election". There are eggcorns related to the manor/ manner distinction, in particular "bedside manor" seems like a pretty obvious misanalysis. But you're correct that both "to the manner born" and "to the manor born" are considered reasonable idiomatic English.
- jhbadger 2y agoThe point is "to the manner born" is a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet, where it was coined.