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Eggcorns? Here, here!
Posted in: Blog, Language, Words by Sally Evans-Darby on 12 February 2013
This week I’m proud to link to a guest blog I recently wrote for the University of the West of England’s Linguistics blog, Lingo.
On first hearing the word ‘eggcorn’, you might think you’ve misheard it. Surely a word at once so humorous and so bizarre (corns and eggs just don’t go together) must be made up, or mispronounced…
Eggcorns, malapropisms, mondegreens, folk etymologies and the dreaded mumpsimus feature to varying degrees in my guest blog, which you can read here. Happy eggcorning!
(Picture courtesy of The Boston Globe.)