Today’s Zits reanalyzes the word manicure: Girls get their nails done at a salon, guys bite theirs. The man of manicure is the Latin ‘hand’ root (also in manacle, manage, manipulate, manual, manufacture, manuscript, etc.), which has nothing to do with the Germanic noun man. So the usage in the cartoon is a deliberate eggcorn, … Continue reading Putting the man in manicure