Didn't want to hijack another person's eggcorn post but it reminded me my son used to sing
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them in my car
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them in my car
November 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Didn't want to hijack another person's eggcorn post but it reminded me my son used to sing
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them in my car
I wanna be the very best
Like no one ever was
To catch them is my real test
To train them in my car
Proper eggcorn, that.
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Proper eggcorn, that.
Well, maybe, but it'd be in the OED entry if they knew about it. As it is, they don't recognise roiling boil at all (even though people clearly say it).
Of the two, I'd have thought the repetitive "oi" sound made roiling boil the more likely eggcorn.
Isn't the idea a continuous, "rolling" boil?
Of the two, I'd have thought the repetitive "oi" sound made roiling boil the more likely eggcorn.
Isn't the idea a continuous, "rolling" boil?
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Well, maybe, but it'd be in the OED entry if they knew about it. As it is, they don't recognise roiling boil at all (even though people clearly say it).
Of the two, I'd have thought the repetitive "oi" sound made roiling boil the more likely eggcorn.
Isn't the idea a continuous, "rolling" boil?
Of the two, I'd have thought the repetitive "oi" sound made roiling boil the more likely eggcorn.
Isn't the idea a continuous, "rolling" boil?
This eggcorn irks me
I’ll never understand how or why folks started to get “whether” and “rather” mixed up 😭
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This eggcorn irks me
new eggcorn just dropped: "naval gazing"
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
new eggcorn just dropped: "naval gazing"
Eggcorn - A word or phrase that results from a mishearing or reinterpretation of another, but which still makes logical sense in its altered form—often leading to amusing or creative twists on the original.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Eggcorn - A word or phrase that results from a mishearing or reinterpretation of another, but which still makes logical sense in its altered form—often leading to amusing or creative twists on the original.
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Is this an example of an "eggcorn"? The author surely meant "fomented" but "fermented" still sort of works I think. What do you reckon?
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Is this an example of an "eggcorn"? The author surely meant "fomented" but "fermented" still sort of works I think. What do you reckon?
For anyone who doesn't know what an eggcorn is: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2633
Language Log » "Eggcorn" makes the OED
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For anyone who doesn't know what an eggcorn is: languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2633
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Realized a very slight eggcorn: when we say "get a word in edgewise," we stress it as if "in edgewise" is a prepositional phrase when it's originally adverbs—like "get in a word, edgewise"
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Realized a very slight eggcorn: when we say "get a word in edgewise," we stress it as if "in edgewise" is a prepositional phrase when it's originally adverbs—like "get in a word, edgewise"
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October 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Haha, I feel like I've done that sort of thing before! I wonder if that would be what we call an eggcorn, which is when someone mishears one phrase as another, inaccurate, but linguistically coherent phrase. "Eggcorn" is an eggcorn of "acorn."
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Haha, I feel like I've done that sort of thing before! I wonder if that would be what we call an eggcorn, which is when someone mishears one phrase as another, inaccurate, but linguistically coherent phrase. "Eggcorn" is an eggcorn of "acorn."
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My child has been invited to an aerial gymnastics party and is very excited to have a go on the ‘aerial raccoon’. An excellent #eggcorn for aerial cocoon.
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
My child has been invited to an aerial gymnastics party and is very excited to have a go on the ‘aerial raccoon’. An excellent #eggcorn for aerial cocoon.
This is the cutest eggcorn I have ever heard
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is the cutest eggcorn I have ever heard
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