reckonize

R1E1C3K5O1N1I1Z10E1
/ˈɹɛk.ən.aɪz/

verb

Eggcorn of recognize

Scrabble 24

Meanings

verbreckonize (third-person singular simple present reckonizes, present participle reckonizing, simple past and past participle reckonized)

present singular third person reckonizes · participle present reckonizing · participle past reckonized · past reckonized

  1. Eggcorn of recognize

    "I don't reckonize anybody," I says.

    1976, David Wagoner, Whole Hog, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 76
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    Many on you, I have no doubt (the rascal), who was hintimate with that celebrated person afore he deceased hisself, now reckonizes for the last time many a moniment of his indispensible taste and hexpensive disposition.

    1857, Charles Manby Smith, Curiosities of London Life: or, Phases, physiological and social, of the great metropolis, London: W. and F. G. Cash, page 271

    And I reckonized, with much surprise, / Our messmate, Bob O'Grady, there;

    1895, “Mr. Moloney's Account of the Ball”, in Henry Davenport Northrop, editor, The Model Orator, or, Young Folks Speaker, Philadelphia, PA: World Bible House, page 393

    "We reckonize she face alright," Bertie further remarked with contempt. "Anybody who grow up pun a farm would reckonize she face alright."

    2011, Raymond Gordon, The Ecclesiastical Chronicles, Volume Two: The Society, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 384

    I knew I had to get out of the officers' mess without the general reckonizing me.

    2011, Rusty Lee, Still Alive: My journey through war, combat and the struggles of PTSD. And the Perils of Addiction. (And stage four cancer), Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 26

    "I reckonize you, Lasky, I reckonize you!" he roared.

    2023, Melvin J. Lasky, edited by Charlotte A. Lerg, The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II, New York: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 149

Origin

Reanalysis as reckon + -ize, influenced by the g-less pronunciation of recognize.

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Chicago

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