eggcorns

Lane's review of The Expendables, … Read moreCould that famously well-edited publication be the source of one of those sporadic folk-etymologies that we call eggcorns?

Language Log 2010

Could that famously well-edited publication be the source of one of those sporadic folk-etymologies that we call eggcorns?

Language Log 2010

- cached Could that famously well-edited publication be the source of one of those sporadic folk-etymologies that we call eggcorns?

Language Log 2010

Language geeks have given the name eggcorns to usages of this kind — “spontaneous reshapings of known expressions” which seem to make sense.

Word Court 2006

Language geeks have given the name eggcorns to usages of this kind — “spontaneous reshapings of known expressions” which seem to make sense.

Word Court 2006

Belatedly catching up with last week's The Week, my attention was caught by a little filler on "eggcorns", via the Guardian.

Communication Maxine 2007

Some of the incorrectitudes I correctituded in Strunk & Light are actually "eggcorns": homonyms or close-to-homonyms of the real expression which are substituted for the real expression because they kinda make sense.

Eggcorns 2006

Some of the incorrectitudes I correctituded in Strunk & Light are actually "eggcorns": homonyms or close-to-homonyms of the real expression which are substituted for the real expression because they kinda make sense.

SeeLight: 2006

Here she lists a number of words and phrases that are known in some circles as "eggcorns" and whose misuse drives me nuts as well.

Pen-Elayne on the Web 2006

Two: a few days ago was the first anniversary of linguist Geoff Pullum's coining of the term 'eggcorns', a particular kind of malapropism that appears linguistically significant because it involves a switch to a wrong, but logical, alternative that is rapidly and widely assimilated into general language.

Doing the tell Ray Girvan 2004