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eggcorn
egg·corn E5053000 (ĕg′kôrn′)n. A series of words that result from the misunderstanding of a word or phrase as some other word or phrase having a plausible explanation, as free reign for free rein, or to the manor born for to the manner born (from William Shakespeare's Hamlet).
[Coined by Geoffrey K. Pullum (born 1945), British-born American linguist (eggcorn being an eggcorn for acorn, taken as egg + corn).]eggcorn (ˈɛɡˌkɔːn) na malapropism or misspelling arising from similarity between the sound of the misspelled or misused word and the correct one in the accent of the person making the mistake[C21: based on the mishearing of acorn as eggcorn, which was considered to be apposite] |