Stehgreif
German
Etymology
The word is interpreted by many speakers as a compound of stehen (“to stand”) + greifen (“to grab”), that is “something one grabs [from one’s ideas] wherever one is standing”. This popular etymology is seen not only in the misspelling, but in the predominant pronunciation [ˈʃteːˌgʁaɪ̯f].
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