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grow a custom

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

Syllables
grow a -cus-tom
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Eggcorn of grow accustomed.

Etymology

From a reanalysis of grow accustomed to as the phonetically indistinguishable grow a custom to.

Inflected Forms

grows a custom (present, singular) growing a custom (participle, present) grew a custom (past) grown a custom (participle, past)

Questions

What does grow a custom mean?
Eggcorn of grow accustomed.
Where does grow a custom come from?
From a reanalysis of grow accustomed to as the phonetically indistinguishable grow a custom to.

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