Eggcorns!

Mar 30, 2010 07:05

Awesome! There’s a word for those popular malapropisms!

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/found-any-eggcorns-lately/

Ironically a malapropism is not an eggcorn despite their linguistic similarity!

http://www.askaword.com/search.jsp?q=Eggcorn&d=ss&libs=



a tough road to hoe (a tough row to hoe)

antidotal evidence (anecdotal evidence)

bonified (bona fide)

bread and breakfast (bed and breakfast)

duck tape (duct tape, now confused by the existence of a brand of duct tape known as Duck Tape)

fast majority (vast majority)

flaw in the ointment (fly in the ointment)

hone in (home in)

internally grateful (eternally grateful)

mute point (moot point)

old timers disease (Alzheimers Disease)

on the spurt of the moment (on the spur of the moment)

outer body experience (out of body experience)

put the cat before the horse (put the cart before the horse)

throws of passion (throes of passion)

windshield factor (wind chill factor)

strange, rofl, funny

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