[QUOTE=Yllaria]
Tell him he may want to add it to the eggcorn database.
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It isn’t an eggcorn. It’s simply a horribly mangled phonetic spelling.
[QUOTE=gotpasswords]
And right now, the folks at Google are wondering why there are so many searches for onjulating. Interestingly, they offer up the usually right on the mark best guess of “Did you mean: unjulating” but this time, they get an F. B+ for effort, at least.
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But that’s as it should be - Google is only helping you find what’s out there, not creating it.
Your editor’s right. It’s a perfectly cromulent word!
Anyway, I think we should be able to just make words up as we go-goesalongway
I reread the email the editor sent me, and now I’m cringing even more. He claims that in addiction to the people telling him it was a real word, he also found it on the Internet. I’m not sure which is worse - using the word to begin with, or claiming it is a real word because he found it on the Internet.
He does give a little, though, when he says “your word makes more sense.” So I just want it known that “undulate” is my word. Mine. Please don’t use it without written permission from me. If you need a word that means “rolling”, I suggest you make one up.
[QUOTE=Athena]
He does give a little, though, when he says “your word makes more sense.”
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That’s not “giving a little”, that’s a total climbdown. It’s self-righteous-prick-speak for “I was totally wrong, you were right, but I’d sooner die than admit that to you.” 
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Your editor’s right. It’s a perfectly cromulent word!
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I was going to say that a varied and imaginative vocabulary will embiggen any man.
[QUOTE=Athena]
in addiction
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:dubious:
[QUOTE=Athena]
I reread the email the editor sent me, and now I’m cringing even more. He claims that in addiction to the people telling him it was a real word, he also found it on the Internet. I’m not sure which is worse - using the word to begin with, or claiming it is a real word because he found it on the Internet.
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Never mind. You’ll get a new editor when this one is abducted by Nigerian scammers.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
:dubious:
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For all intensive porpoises, that’s a perfuctly good utilization of that word. I would of used it in the same way two.
The guy’s an editor? How the hell did that happen!?
[QUOTE=tdn]
For all intensive porpoises, that’s a perfuctly good utilization of that word. I would of used it in the same way two.
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That’s actually spelled “yoodle-i-zayshun”.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
:dubious:
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I knew before I even started this thread that I was damning myself. There is no way you can start a spelling or grammar thread without misusing/misspelling a word at least once. I accepted my fate before my fingers hit the keyboard.
It’s called ‘Gaudere’s Law’. But don’t worry: anyone can make a Freudian slit.
[QUOTE=jjimm]
It’s called ‘Gaudere’s Law’. But don’t worry: anyone can make a Freudian slit.
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What if all I have is Jungian scissors?
Just don’t run with them.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Just don’t run with them.
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Or onjulate. That could get ugly.
[QUOTE=Athena]
Or onjulate.
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Didn’t he write The English Patient?