Eggcorn

TIL Eggcorn

https://piefed.kobel.fyi/c/lemmyshitpost/p/57113/eggcorn

I made the waitress mad the other day.

I asked her “Can I ask you a question about the menu, please?”

She slapped me and said “The men I please is none of your business.”

@LikeItOrLumpIt

reminded me of this thread:

https://mstdn.social/@LikeItOrLumpIt/115276974841495128

#eggcorn

I just spotted an #eggcorn that's new to me. Someone wrote "world wind day" rather than "whirlwind day."

The thing that makes an eggcorn an eggcorn is not that it's simply the misuse of word, but that it makes some kind of sense. Presumably this person imagined a wind so powerful that it wrapped around the whole globe.

Eggcorn, a mis-understanding of "acorn" makes sense to the user because they see something egg-shaped that's a seed (corn).

It's a fascinating phenomenon!

RE: https://aus.social/@Margaritak/115726008755271264

An #eggcorn spotted in the wild.

Websters has this article that explains the phrase “by and large” so you can avoid its misuse. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20and%20large

#ScottLinguistics

I'm finding it very hard to deal with the fact that the correct phrase is "shore up" not "sure up".

I've been using the English language for almost 40 years and it was only today that I found this out.

Be kind.

#Eggcorn

Just encountered a new (to me) #eggcorn: "all do respect"

CAW Presents: What is an Eggcorn??
"Once described as a 'slip of the ear,' an eggcorn is the written expression of a plausible mishearing of a standard term." Ruth Walker, Journalist
#Eggcorn #CAW #CartersvilleAreaWriters #CAWPresents #Writers #WritingCommunity

@yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

#linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

#eggcorn spotted in the wild (a Facebook group):

Air on the side of caution.

#HashtagGames
#DogBerryASongOrPoem

I found my pills
On Blueberry hill
#EggCorn

New eggcorn spotted in the wild: "sure up" instead of "shore up"

#eggcorn #linguistics #language #EnglishUsage #words #LanguageChange

I just heard a new (to me) #eggcorn on the PBS Newshour: The guest said (and host repeated) that re-shoring jobs was a “pretense” for the tariffs. This is a particularly tricky near-synonym for “pretext” don’t you think?

I was just recalling a conversation in recent years. Not sure when. It involves something like an #eggcorn, but with several different acronyms as sources. Perhaps an eggcornym?

I was somewhere, maybe a mechanic, where I had to receive a receipt or other paperwork that was several pages. The guy behind the counter apologized for using a paperclip, saying, “My stapler is AOL.”

Apparently he was conflating AWOL (absent without leave) & SOL (shit outta luck) to produce AOL (America Online). I had the idea he was grasping for the right phrase, trying to come up with AWOL. The premise behind an eggcorn is that it makes sense of an utterance whose origins are not known to the speaker. Instead, he might have realized the error & corrected it if he listened to a recording or something. So this might be a little different thing.

Still funny.

#linguistics

@thebrittanygibbons

Giving surfer dude the benefit of the doubt, it sounds like it’s an #eggcorn, something I only recently learned about here on mastodon.

His companions probably heard it before & laugh at him behind his back.

OTOH, I may be seriously overestimating his companions’ knowledge of US history…

United States President Donald Trump and “raw earth”, his eggcorn for “rare earth”. #111Words #DonaldTrump #RawEarth #Ukraine #RareEarth #Eggcorn https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/united-states-president-donald-trump.html

Seeing a few #eggcorn examples doing the rounds reminds me that as a child in the mid-80s I thought that the chorus to Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" was...

"You get your money for nothing and your chips for free".

I mean, who doesn't like free chips?

Now the Buddha's on the other foot

(#eggcorn or #mondegreen?)

Someone was talking on here about "eggcorns," misheard and misrepeated common phrases, and I want to give a big shoutout to my friend, Zoom transcription, for the phrase "from the gecko," which it loves loves loves to use.

#English #eggcorn

New(?) #eggcorn: algorithm -> lithogram

Trailers for St. Laurent...

#MisheadLyrics #Eggcorn