![]() ![]() Anderson, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oregon and lead author of the study. ''This suggests a neurological basis for how people can actually shove something out of mind,'' said Dr. Lets see if she dregs up the ghosts of Christmas past for her new movie promo tour.The scientists also found that the more the subjects were told to resist thinking about a word, the more likely they were to have trouble recalling it later. ( … heyre-safe)Ĭelebrity discussion site: I know it must have hurt, but 4 years later she needs to get over it. “Dregs up” got 160 ughits.īlog: The Times is reporting on a documentary on PBS’s Frontline, which dregs up the fears about the Internet that have floated around since the 90s. I’m not aware of a term for the hemieggcorn that occurs when a root word that is unknown to the user is resubsituted for its cousin, but such a coinage would be useful here, to describe the substitutions of “dregs up” and “drags up” for dredges up. ![]() Soap opera blog: I don’t want to dreads up the past but it’s nice to see that you moved on. It might be this unpleasant mental association that brings “dread” into the equation:įantasy game discussion board: I dont mean to dread up bad memories put she was a good friend of mine I didnt know she died.”īlog: We should just let everyone who lost their lives rest in peace and stop trying to dread up bad things about them now that they are not here.įanfiction: This is pointless, we can’t dread up the past. ![]() On the other hand, dredging up bad memories, or the past, is a metaphor for digging into unpleasant depths to find things that we might prefer to leave buried. The word is probably connected to both dragging, and perhaps indirectly to dregs, from a Norse word for sediments (who knows, there may have been some eggcornish blending going on here again). Bringing sediments from a river bed to the surface for removal has been known as dredging since the beginning of the 16th century. ![]()
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