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At last, the year for people with perfect vision

By adamg on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 2:13pm
Prudential building welcomes 2020

David Parsons took in the Back Bay as the New Year arrived.

Leslee captured the Public Garden bridge on First Night:

Public Garden bridge

Top photo copyright David Parsons. Bridge photo posted under this Creative Commons license. Both posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

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Back Bay
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First Night
New Year's
Public Garden
Prudential Center


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Comments

By anon on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 5:46pm.

Keep up the good work, sir.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 8:06pm.
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By anon on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 8:31pm.

Thanks Swirly.

Never heard the original. Love this one though:

https://youtu.be/MrHxhQPOO2c

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By Ron Newman on Wed, 01/01/2020 - 9:09pm.

and not the full year (2020) as it has in previous years.

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By mg on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 12:24am.

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By fungwah on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 9:33am.

You just need to stand kitty-corner so you can see that the full year is spelled out across two sides of the building :P

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By Cynicus on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 4:43pm.

I've always found the expression "kitty-corner" interesting... nothing to do with cats, it's derived from mis-hearing the original phrase "cater-corner" (itself mis-heard from Latin quattuor meaning "four" as in "four corners")...

I wonder if there's a general name for phrases that are based on mis-hearing other phrases, like "monkey wrench" (several possible disputed origins, none of them involving monkeys, like "Moncke Wrench" after a possible inventor)... or "Pennsylvania Dutch" from mishearing "Pennsylvania Deutch" (immigrants from Germany, not the Netherlands)... I don't know a general term for that kind of phrase shift.

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By fungwah on Thu, 01/02/2020 - 11:27pm.

It seems similar to a mondegreen, but that's more in song lyrics or full phrases I think. Not sure if there's a word for it when it occurs with an individual word.

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By capecoddah on Fri, 01/03/2020 - 12:45am.

Not sure if there's a word for it when it occurs with an individual word.

Folk etymology is a term for the explanation. Sometimes people use it as a term for the victimization of a word or term.

In my lifetime I am pretty sure folk etymology is going to allow the spelling of segue as segway.

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