Friday, April 22, 2011

Eggcorn

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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2 comments:

  1. I 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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