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THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
DIACRITIQUES » TRANSCRIBING AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE This is a reply to Mark Libermanâs challenge to a) guess the language on a recording and b) transcribe it. Iâve never transcribed anything but English, and this more often into phonemes than phonetically (ie, writing down actual heard sounds, which is much moredifficult).
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
DIACRITIQUES » TRANSCRIBING AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE This is a reply to Mark Libermanâs challenge to a) guess the language on a recording and b) transcribe it. Iâve never transcribed anything but English, and this more often into phonemes than phonetically (ie, writing down actual heard sounds, which is much moredifficult).
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by THE EGGCORN DATABASE Mixmash takes the reduplicative first syllable of mishmash and transforms it into the semantically transparent mix.In fact, the linkage between mix and mash goes back etymologically all the way to the Indo-European root *meik-.The reduplication of mash into mishmash has also been paralleled by forms with mix, such as the variants mixty-maxty, mixter-maxter, and mixie-maxie from Scotland/N THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NEARLY MAINSTREAM The original form, sing-along, is quite transparent, so I suspect that the reanalysis is not motivated by the sense of the word so much as by analogy with âV-a-Nâ constructions such as Rent-A-Wreck, rope-a-dope, and whack-a-mole. Iâve labelled this one as ânearly mainstream,â because the reanalyzed form seems to be very common. THE EGGCORN DATABASE _Eavesdrop_ is a denominal verb formed from the same pattern as for example _shop_ or _lobby_. The underlying noun _eavesdrop_, expanded in the OED as âthe space of ground which is liable to receive the rain-water thrown off by the eaves of a buildingâ, has fallen out of general use, and with it the image behind the verb, of standing close to the outside wall of a house, under the THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » QUESTIONABLE From my Language Log discussion: This one was noted in a discussion on the Eggcorn Forum back in March. You can google up a pile of hits; itâs all over the place. The question then is whether this is a simple misspelling, with initial /k/ spelled by the more common C rather than K; or a spelling like pail for pale in beyond the pail ; or an eggcorn in which cows are somehow involved THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE Answers, Aug 2008 (approx.)) People who have been adopted or are in foster care should not be treated as a social leopard. ( Search Your Love online dating, article, Aug 29, 2007) This is a rather low-frequency eggcorn. The mixed form âsocial lepardâ EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » BROWSE EGGCORNS The Eggcorn Database » Browse eggcorns. (curled up) in the feeble position see fetal » feeble. (ethnic) routes see root » route. (go (at it)) hammer and thongs see tongs » thongs. a hair's breath see breadth » breath. a hare's breadth see hair » hare. a mood point see moot » mood. a mute point see moot » mute. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » BROWSE EGGCORNS The Eggcorn Database » Browse eggcorns. (curled up) in the feeble position see fetal » feeble. (ethnic) routes see root » route. (go (at it)) hammer and thongs see tongs » thongs. a hair's breath see breadth » breath. a hare's breadth see hair » hare. a mood point see moot » mood. a mute point see moot » mute. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by THE EGGCORN DATABASE Mixmash takes the reduplicative first syllable of mishmash and transforms it into the semantically transparent mix.In fact, the linkage between mix and mash goes back etymologically all the way to the Indo-European root *meik-.The reduplication of mash into mishmash has also been paralleled by forms with mix, such as the variants mixty-maxty, mixter-maxter, and mixie-maxie from Scotland/N THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NEARLY MAINSTREAM The original form, sing-along, is quite transparent, so I suspect that the reanalysis is not motivated by the sense of the word so much as by analogy with âV-a-Nâ constructions such as Rent-A-Wreck, rope-a-dope, and whack-a-mole. Iâve labelled this one as ânearly mainstream,â because the reanalyzed form seems to be very common. THE EGGCORN DATABASE _Eavesdrop_ is a denominal verb formed from the same pattern as for example _shop_ or _lobby_. The underlying noun _eavesdrop_, expanded in the OED as âthe space of ground which is liable to receive the rain-water thrown off by the eaves of a buildingâ, has fallen out of general use, and with it the image behind the verb, of standing close to the outside wall of a house, under the THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » QUESTIONABLE From my Language Log discussion: This one was noted in a discussion on the Eggcorn Forum back in March. You can google up a pile of hits; itâs all over the place. The question then is whether this is a simple misspelling, with initial /k/ spelled by the more common C rather than K; or a spelling like pail for pale in beyond the pail ; or an eggcorn in which cows are somehow involved THE EGGCORN DATABASE Analyzed or reported by: Dave Wilton (On ADS-L 5/26/12) Panty-waist, originally a North American term for âa garment, usually for children, consisting of panties attached to a waist or bodiceâ took on a derogatory sense, âa weak or cowardly person, esp. a young boy; a weakling, a sissyâ [citesfrom
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FEEBLE Michael Covarrubias noted this eggcorn in his August 2, 2009 posting on the American Dialect Societyâs listserv, overhearing ep. 2 of season 1 of the show _Coach_ (_I dropped on my knees, curled up in the feeble position, closed my eyes and screamed my head off_). He also noted that googling âthe feeble positionâ returns a number of hits from skateboarding sites and discussion, where the THE EGGCORN DATABASE Answers, Aug 2008 (approx.)) People who have been adopted or are in foster care should not be treated as a social leopard. ( Search Your Love online dating, article, Aug 29, 2007) This is a rather low-frequency eggcorn. The mixed form âsocial lepardâ EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » INTENSIVE PURPOSES Commentaries. 1. Commentary by Steven J. OâConnor, 2005/03/04 at 6:21 pm. My sister uses that malaprop so often. We accept it in our home. 2. Commentary by kechambers, 2005/03/22 at 2:35 am. I just received an email announcement about fresh maple syrup that included the following sentence: EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » INTENSIVE PURPOSES Commentaries. 1. Commentary by Steven J. OâConnor, 2005/03/04 at 6:21 pm. My sister uses that malaprop so often. We accept it in our home. 2. Commentary by kechambers, 2005/03/22 at 2:35 am. I just received an email announcement about fresh maple syrup that included the following sentence: THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » STRAIGHT The adjective âstraitâ ânarrow, tightâ is pretty much restricted in modern English to the two expressions âstraitjacketâ and âstrait-lacedâ, which most speakers seem to find opaque; its homophone âstraightâ at least makes some sense, especially in âstraight-lacedâ, where thereâs some possible connection to âstraightâ âconventionalâ. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » A POSABLE Treecats have 3 fingers and a poseable thumb and a massive obsession for celery as far as I can tell. ( Broomsticks and Owls forum, Jul 09, 2004) The hands are simple with a fixed thumb and a poseable index finger which hold the one weapon fairly well. ( link) The human thumb is fully posable. It rotates in many directions. ( link) The removal THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by THE EGGCORN DATABASE » WONDER Delegates wondered up and down the seemingly endless hallways of the huge convention center. ( Politics1 News Blog, Dec. 8, 2003) Its been wondering through my mind since we spoke about it. ( Opto Ergo Sum, Jan. 25, 2005) Scott McClellan popped back into the veal pen that is the White House work space and was chatting up reporters. EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » INTENSIVE PURPOSES Commentaries. 1. Commentary by Steven J. OâConnor, 2005/03/04 at 6:21 pm. My sister uses that malaprop so often. We accept it in our home. 2. Commentary by kechambers, 2005/03/22 at 2:35 am. I just received an email announcement about fresh maple syrup that included the following sentence: EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » INTENSIVE PURPOSES Commentaries. 1. Commentary by Steven J. OâConnor, 2005/03/04 at 6:21 pm. My sister uses that malaprop so often. We accept it in our home. 2. Commentary by kechambers, 2005/03/22 at 2:35 am. I just received an email announcement about fresh maple syrup that included the following sentence: THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » STRAIGHT The adjective âstraitâ ânarrow, tightâ is pretty much restricted in modern English to the two expressions âstraitjacketâ and âstrait-lacedâ, which most speakers seem to find opaque; its homophone âstraightâ at least makes some sense, especially in âstraight-lacedâ, where thereâs some possible connection to âstraightâ âconventionalâ. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » A POSABLE Treecats have 3 fingers and a poseable thumb and a massive obsession for celery as far as I can tell. ( Broomsticks and Owls forum, Jul 09, 2004) The hands are simple with a fixed thumb and a poseable index finger which hold the one weapon fairly well. ( link) The human thumb is fully posable. It rotates in many directions. ( link) The removal THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by THE EGGCORN DATABASE » WONDER Delegates wondered up and down the seemingly endless hallways of the huge convention center. ( Politics1 News Blog, Dec. 8, 2003) Its been wondering through my mind since we spoke about it. ( Opto Ergo Sum, Jan. 25, 2005) Scott McClellan popped back into the veal pen that is the White House work space and was chatting up reporters. EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » INTENSIVE PURPOSES Commentaries. 1. Commentary by Steven J. OâConnor, 2005/03/04 at 6:21 pm. My sister uses that malaprop so often. We accept it in our home. 2. Commentary by kechambers, 2005/03/22 at 2:35 am. I just received an email announcement about fresh maple syrup that included the following sentence: EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » INTENSIVE PURPOSES Commentaries. 1. Commentary by Steven J. OâConnor, 2005/03/04 at 6:21 pm. My sister uses that malaprop so often. We accept it in our home. 2. Commentary by kechambers, 2005/03/22 at 2:35 am. I just received an email announcement about fresh maple syrup that included the following sentence: THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » STRAIGHT The adjective âstraitâ ânarrow, tightâ is pretty much restricted in modern English to the two expressions âstraitjacketâ and âstrait-lacedâ, which most speakers seem to find opaque; its homophone âstraightâ at least makes some sense, especially in âstraight-lacedâ, where thereâs some possible connection to âstraightâ âconventionalâ. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » A POSABLE Treecats have 3 fingers and a poseable thumb and a massive obsession for celery as far as I can tell. ( Broomsticks and Owls forum, Jul 09, 2004) The hands are simple with a fixed thumb and a poseable index finger which hold the one weapon fairly well. ( link) The human thumb is fully posable. It rotates in many directions. ( link) The removal THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PARTITION Spotted in the wild: QUESTION: What is your response to the situation in which Jeremy Rifkin organized a group of church leaders to sign a partition effectively saying that gene patenting was a sin againstGod?
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by THE EGGCORN DATABASE » WONDER Delegates wondered up and down the seemingly endless hallways of the huge convention center. ( Politics1 News Blog, Dec. 8, 2003) Its been wondering through my mind since we spoke about it. ( Opto Ergo Sum, Jan. 25, 2005) Scott McClellan popped back into the veal pen that is the White House work space and was chatting up reporters. EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by EGGCORNS.LASCRIBE.NET This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.. The Eggcorn Database went public on February15, 2005.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » EGGCORN Variant (s): egg-corn, egg corn. Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: Even a blind squirrel will find an eggcorn once in a while. ( link) Also I have oak trees in my pasture. My vet said my horses would be ok because they shouldnât eat the eggcorns. ( link) Motifs: Eggcorns and leafs ( Washington County 2003 Tombstone Project, (with THE EGGCORN DATABASE This eggcorn may be more common among non-native speakers who lack a phonemic distinction between /b/ and /v/ in their L1. (See Wikipedia on the ban/van merger.). In the Eggcorn Forum, alexkrich writes: âThis seems to be a word that is still recognized as incorrect by most people, and is mainly used by non-native English speakers unfamiliar with the phrase âfirst of all.â THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » PER SAY The self-titled debut isnât bad, per say, but it does have a guilty-pleasure feel that may have been better received in the hazy days of summer. ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 14, 2005) Resident Sara Torre said, âIâm not concerned about the Wal-Mart per say, but Iâm concerned about the scope of the project and thelocation.â.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT I enjoyed this entry, but i think you put the cat before the horse. ( Comment on online diary entry, Apr 9, 2001) This eggcorn, which in some case might be a typo from omitting to hit one key, was reported by on the American Dialect Society mailing list by Mark Peters, who saw it in a student paper. It seems to be most frequent in writings by THE EGGCORN DATABASE Mixmash takes the reduplicative first syllable of mishmash and transforms it into the semantically transparent mix.In fact, the linkage between mix and mash goes back etymologically all the way to the Indo-European root *meik-.The reduplication of mash into mishmash has also been paralleled by forms with mix, such as the variants mixty-maxty, mixter-maxter, and mixie-maxie from Scotland/N THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE _Eavesdrop_ is a denominal verb formed from the same pattern as for example _shop_ or _lobby_. The underlying noun _eavesdrop_, expanded in the OED as âthe space of ground which is liable to receive the rain-water thrown off by the eaves of a buildingâ, has fallen out of general use, and with it the image behind the verb, of standing close to the outside wall of a house, under the THE EGGCORN DATABASE » QUESTIONABLE From my Language Log discussion: This one was noted in a discussion on the Eggcorn Forum back in March. You can google up a pile of hits; itâs all over the place. The question then is whether this is a simple misspelling, with initial /k/ spelled by the more common C rather than K; or a spelling like pail for pale in beyond the pail ; or an eggcorn in which cows are somehow involved THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NEARLY MAINSTREAM The original form, sing-along, is quite transparent, so I suspect that the reanalysis is not motivated by the sense of the word so much as by analogy with âV-a-Nâ constructions such as Rent-A-Wreck, rope-a-dope, and whack-a-mole. Iâve labelled this one as ânearly mainstream,â because the reanalyzed form seems to be very common. THE EGGCORN DATABASE Analyzed or reported by: Dave Wilton (On ADS-L 5/26/12) Panty-waist, originally a North American term for âa garment, usually for children, consisting of panties attached to a waist or bodiceâ took on a derogatory sense, âa weak or cowardly person, esp. a young boy; a weakling, a sissyâ [citesfrom
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » SELF-PHONE An Italian friend of mine, who learnt her English in America, calls her mobile her âself-phoneâ. Presumably she has heard it called a cell phone, but never seen the words written down â and it is a phone you use yourself . . . An unsurprising reanalysis, since âcell-phoneâ and âself-phoneâ would both be pronounced as/sÉlfoÊn
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ENGLISH cgrayson ( Eggcorn Forum, Oct. 24, 2006) Mark Liberman ( Language Log, Jan. 18, 2014) Paul Brians ( Common Errors in English Usage) Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin. Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy THE EGGCORN DATABASE » BROWSE EGGCORNS The Eggcorn Database » Browse eggcorns. (curled up) in the feeble position see fetal » feeble. (ethnic) routes see root » route. (go (at it)) hammer and thongs see tongs » thongs. a hair's breath see breadth » breath. a hare's breadth see hair » hare. a mood point see moot » mood. a mute point see moot » mute. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NEARLY MAINSTREAM The original form, sing-along, is quite transparent, so I suspect that the reanalysis is not motivated by the sense of the word so much as by analogy with âV-a-Nâ constructions such as Rent-A-Wreck, rope-a-dope, and whack-a-mole. Iâve labelled this one as ânearly mainstream,â because the reanalyzed form seems to be very common. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
EGGCORN FORUM / I'M HERE TO QUALM YOUR FEARS. Re: I'm here to qualm your fears. Good point kem. The examples you provide all sound like malapropisms to me. âqualmâ means âcalmâ to the utterer, but not to a discerning listener. If the intended meaning of a word is simply wrong, then it canât be an eggcorn: the construction has to make dictionary sense to the listenerto be an eggcorn.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ENGLISH cgrayson ( Eggcorn Forum, Oct. 24, 2006) Mark Liberman ( Language Log, Jan. 18, 2014) Paul Brians ( Common Errors in English Usage) Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin. Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy THE EGGCORN DATABASE » BROWSE EGGCORNS The Eggcorn Database » Browse eggcorns. (curled up) in the feeble position see fetal » feeble. (ethnic) routes see root » route. (go (at it)) hammer and thongs see tongs » thongs. a hair's breath see breadth » breath. a hare's breadth see hair » hare. a mood point see moot » mood. a mute point see moot » mute. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » ABOUT The Eggcorn Database » About. The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six monthsearlier I
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » FIRSTABLE Firstable, the term âindianâ and christianity were imposed in Peru through blood and fire by European conquerors. ( Marxism mailing list, Jan. 28, 1996) Here is an essay written as part of the admissions procedure for our University Honors Program. âFirstable, to stay away from the reality of those traps that people are facing, I would THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NAIL Paul Brians observes that ââdeath nailâ is a result of confusing two expressions with similar meanings,â i.e. death knell and (the last) nail in the coffin.Indeed, nail in the coffin appears to be a heavy influence on death nail, and in some cases the influence is so strong that we could call it an idiom blend.Consider the form âthe (last/final) death nail in (someoneâs) coffinâ: THE EGGCORN DATABASE » TEAM In the discussion forum, David Bird writes:. The connection to the obsolete cognate of teem as team, for a brood or family, skirts very closely the other, more familiar team, which is present as both noun and verbSo ultimately teem and team are tied to the same origins, though they have followed separate paths for a few thousand years. These connections enliven the following substitutions THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » NEARLY MAINSTREAM The original form, sing-along, is quite transparent, so I suspect that the reanalysis is not motivated by the sense of the word so much as by analogy with âV-a-Nâ constructions such as Rent-A-Wreck, rope-a-dope, and whack-a-mole. Iâve labelled this one as ânearly mainstream,â because the reanalyzed form seems to be very common. THE EGGCORN DATABASE » THRONGS The first cite is from Crawford in ADS-L, the others from the 56 that turned up on a Google web search on 23 May 2005. From the semantic point of view, âthrongsâ is an even better replacement for âthroesâ than âthrowsâ (q.v.), though itâs imperfectphonologically.
EGGCORN FORUM / I'M HERE TO QUALM YOUR FEARS. Re: I'm here to qualm your fears. Good point kem. The examples you provide all sound like malapropisms to me. âqualmâ means âcalmâ to the utterer, but not to a discerning listener. If the intended meaning of a word is simply wrong, then it canât be an eggcorn: the construction has to make dictionary sense to the listenerto be an eggcorn.
THE EGGCORN DATABASE » IMPREMATURE Ken Lakritz ( in the Eggcorn forums) An _imprimatur_ â the Latin can be translated as _let it be printed_ â was originally an official license to print or publish, granted by the Roman Catholic church, thereby declaring the work in question as compatible with Roman Catholic doctrine. The word is used by extension to refer to anyofficial
THE EGGCORN DATABASE The Eggcorn Database has listed _stings and arrows_ for over 3 years, but _strings and arrows_ eluded us for a long while, even though it arguably makes just as much sense.. Many web hits are, of course, for literal (bow) strings and arrows, but searching for the sequence âstrings and arrows ofâ we can estimate the frequency of this reshaping as about half that of the _stings and arrows THE EGGCORN DATABASE Panty-waist, originally a North American term for âa garment, usually for children, consisting of panties attached to a waist or bodiceâ took on a derogatory sense, âa weak or cowardly person, esp. a young boy; a weakling, a sissyâ .As the original sense became rare, many speakers assimilated the garment term panty to the THE EGGCORN DATABASE » VALEVICTORIAN Classification: English. Spotted in the wild: âGrowing up in the Jim Crow south, Brother Julian was only eligible for education until the eigth grade. However, he graduated valevictorian with Phi Beta Kappa honors from DePauw University.â ( link) âI get straight Aâs all year without trying. Iâm the Valevictorian of a THE EGGCORN DATABASE _Eavesdrop_ is a denominal verb formed from the same pattern as for example _shop_ or _lobby_. The underlying noun _eavesdrop_, expanded in the OED as âthe space of ground which is liable to receive the rain-water thrown off by the eaves of a buildingâ, has fallen out of general use, and with it the image behind the verb, of standing close to the outside wall of a house, under the THE EGGCORN DATABASE » CAT Spotted in the wild: The feeling of the people is that the police stinks and it is rotten. You, within days of assuming the leadership of the force, announced what you THE EGGCORN DATABASE » QUESTIONABLE From my Language Log discussion: This one was noted in a discussion on the Eggcorn Forum back in March. You can google up a pile of hits; itâs all over the place. The question then is whether this is a simple misspelling, with initial /k/ spelled by the more common C rather than K; or a spelling like pail for pale in beyond the pail ; or an eggcorn in which cows are somehow involved THE EGGCORN DATABASE Analyzed or reported by: kem ( Eggcorn Forum, Apr. 3, 2009) In the Eggcorn Forum, kem writes: If our plans misfire, we can chalk it up to experience and go on. âChalk it up toâ means to attribute to, with overtones of bringing the matter to closure. The idiom, which has been with us for several hundred years, may derive from an early DIACRITIQUES » TRANSCRIBING AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE This is a reply to Mark Libermanâs challenge to a) guess the language on a recording and b) transcribe it. Iâve never transcribed anything but English, and this more often into phonemes than phonetically (ie, writing down actual heard sounds, which is much moredifficult).
THE EGGCORN DATABASE Answers, Aug 2008 (approx.)) People who have been adopted or are in foster care should not be treated as a social leopard. ( Search Your Love online dating, article, Aug 29, 2007) This is a rather low-frequency eggcorn. The mixed form âsocial lepardâHOME PAGE
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