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May. 31st, 2006 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI just bagged my first eggcorn.
What are eggcorns? According to The Eggcorn Database, eggcorns are
A little thing, I know, but I think it rates a brief happydance.
What are eggcorns? According to The Eggcorn Database, eggcorns are
unusual spellings of a particular kind... Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expressions: a word or part of a word is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation.They've been much discussed at Language Log and on the American Dialect Society mailing list, and people bring in examples they've spotted "in the wild". Yesterday I brought the phrase "beyond approach" to the attention of ADS, and today it's been added to the database.
A little thing, I know, but I think it rates a brief happydance.
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Date: 2006-06-01 12:10 am (UTC)It obviously was not beyond approach :<)
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Date: 2006-06-01 01:08 pm (UTC)Cool! Though I'm not sure I've ever heard that!
Good job! :-)
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Date: 2006-06-01 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-01 10:16 pm (UTC)Ah, okay. Interesting.
I've definitely heard/seen lots of those kinds of things.
Especially annoying/funny are similar types of things in JD Robb books. Nora Roberts is either using some kind of voice recognition software or someone's really bad at taking her dictation!!
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Date: 2006-06-07 01:40 am (UTC)Congratulations!
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Date: 2006-06-13 05:02 pm (UTC)