Eggcorn of the month

Language Log 2025-06-18

Summary:

YouTube's speech-to-text system is way behind the state of the art, or maybe has a good sense of humor. From its transcription of Donald Trump's 5/15/2025 speech in Qatar (the whitehouse.gov version): Your browser does not support the audio element. A few other (meta-usage) examples of "Pulit suprise" are Out There, but even an old-fashioned […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=69611&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eggcorn-of-the-month-2

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Tags:

eggcorns

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

06/18/2025, 14:03

Date published:

06/18/2025, 09:14