[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Herb - Now Aluminum

[Random832]

> montims:
> while we're ranting...
> How on earth did "chaise longue" become "chaise lounge" in America?  At
> first, I thought it was just a common seller's spelling error, like the
> greengrocer's apostrophe, but I've heard it pronounced as lounge in tv
> programmes and furniture commercials.  It doesn't even make sense that
> way...


Spelling error + Never heard of it + Folk etymology.

Or even Never heard of it + Folk etymology + "that can't be right" 
(nucular is often said to be derived from a pseudo-etymology of "new 
killer")