viernes, 7 de marzo de 2025

Eggcorns

 According to Merriam-Webster, an eggcorn is “a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase.” One of the most common is “for all intensive purposes,” when the speaker really means “for all intents and purposes.

Here are some examples:

 Audience "agreeance," a combination of agreement & acceptance “another thing coming" instead of “another think” (Though many say it’s the other way around and “another thing” is arguably more common now.)"scared" instead of “afraid ”“as dust fell” instead of “as dusk fell ”“biting my time" instead of “biding” "best thing since life's bread" instead of “sliced bread” “bond fire" instead of “bonfire” “buck naked" instead of “butt naked” (though some say it’s the other way around)"callapitter" instead of “caterpillar” "chesterdraws" instead of “chest of drawers”

"chicken spots" instead of “chicken pox”"civilware" instead of “silverware”"close-a-phobia" instead of “claustrophobia”"consinct" instead of “concise”"curly roads" instead of “curvy roads”"daring-do" instead of “derring-do”"die-a-rear" instead of “diarrhea”"doggy-dog-world" instead of “dog-eat-dog”"Duck Tape" (a brand) instead of “duct tape”"escape goat" instead of “scape goat”"expresso" instead of “espresso”"Extreme Court" instead of “Supreme Court”"eyebulbs" instead of “eyeballs”"Facetube" instead of “YouTube”"flush out" instead of “flesh out”"flustrated" instead of “frustrated”"flutterby" instead of “butterfly”"free examples" instead of “free samples"gander up"(or “dandruff up”) instead of “dander up”"genetic brands” instead of “generic brands”

etc.



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