egg-corn (ĕgkôrn)
noun
1. A linguistic term for an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase that also bears a phonetic likeness.
Skimp milk is one of my favorite eggcorns.
Synonyms: earhorn.
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ReplyDeleteI like: biggering for bickering; triple-down economics for trickle-down economics; arfterwords; insight joke for inside joke; sexpool for cesspool; passafist for pacifist; and I sometimes deliberately say horrorscope instead of horoscope.
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