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		<title>Beck and call or beckon call?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is correct? Top Security Specialists offers the best in personal service and puts our R&#38;D at your ___________. a. beck and call b. beckon call Answer: a Explanation: This is another homophone error &#8212; something that people hear (but don&#8217;t see in print) and make an assumption about based on the sound. Homophone errors [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Which is correct?</strong><br />
Top Security Specialists offers the best in personal service and puts our R&amp;D at your ___________.<br />
a. beck and call<br />
b. beckon call<br />
<span id="more-978"></span><br />
<strong>Answer: a</strong></p>
<p><strong>Explanation: </strong><br />
This is another homophone error &#8212; something that people hear (but don&#8217;t see in print) and make an assumption about based on the sound. Homophone errors are sometimes called <a href="http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/about/">eggcorns.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beck-and-call.html">Phrases.org covers &#8220;beck and call&#8221;:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;Call&#8217; is used here with its usual meaning. &#8216;Beck&#8217; is more interesting. The word, although current in English since the 14th century, isn&#8217;t one that is found outside the phrase &#8216;beck and call&#8217; these days. It is merely a shortened form of &#8216;beckon&#8217;, which we do still know well and understand to mean &#8216;to signal silently, by a nod or motion of the hand or finger, indicating a request or command&#8217;.</p>
<p>If the term &#8216;beck and call&#8217; had originated prior to the 14th century we we would presumably now say &#8216;beckon and call&#8217;. </p></blockquote>
<p>The Eggcorn Database <a href="http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/450/beckon-call/">reports on sightings of beckon call in the wild</a> and further reports that this phrase is also sometimes seen as &#8220;beckoned call&#8221; and &#8220;beacon call.&#8221;</p>
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