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

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Friday, January 28, 2005, 19:18
Philip Newton wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:21:38 -0800, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> > wrote: > > > > > > 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"? >
Maybe the best term would be "nonce-form (folk etym. dept.)" :-)) that seems to make its way at least once into written language. As someone pointed out in the discussion, a dialectal pronunc. of egg as [ejg] could lead to the wrong division of ['ejkor\n]. I don't know whether to thank Arthaey, or not, for that URL...I spent almost an hour looking thru it..........:-))

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Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>