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Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

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ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

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It is!
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  What is it an eggcorn of? Acorn? And what’s the origin?
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    Yes, acorn.
    
    This linguistics blog post is the origin: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html
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      Oh awesome and very interesting thank you!

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