Ancient eggcorns
Language Log 2023-06-17
Summary:
The word eggcorn was originally proposed in a LLOG post almost 20 years ago — "Egg corns: folk etymology, malapropism, mondegreen, ???", 9/23/2003. And the word is now recognized by most current English dictionaries and other relevant sources, which gloss it variously, e.g. — the Oxford English Dictionary, ("An alteration of a word or phrase […]