Re: eggcorn (was Re: "To whom")

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:21:38 -0800, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> wrote:
> Emaelivpeith Philip Newton:
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:54:31 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> > > Likewise the eggcorns "would of", "should of", and so on.
> >
> > What's an eggcorn?
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html
Thanks... though I'm still not quite sure what the term refers to. A
mis-hearing of a word which results in a non-standard spelling? A
single instance of might otherwise be termed "folk etymology"?

> (watch the Reply-To!)
Thanks for the warning; I might otherwise not have noticed. (Despite
using Gmail myself!)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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