What is your favourite eggcorn?
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I was reminded about eggcorns when someone asked whether it was teatotal or teetotal in a recent thread.
Eggcorns are where people mishear a word and replace it with one that sounds like it, but where the new word, despite being wrong, makes some sense. The eponymous example being eggcorn for acorn (acorns do have the same shapes as eggs!)
Sometimes you don’t even know you have been using them. It wasn’t until I heard about eggcorns that I realised I had been saying “damp squids” as opposed to “damp squibs”. Raises the question of whether I am still unwittingly saying things incorrectly.
Anyway - do you have a favourite eggcorn or willing to admit ones you have used by mistake?
Eggcorns are where people mishear a word and replace it with one that sounds like it, but where the new word, despite being wrong, makes some sense. The eponymous example being eggcorn for acorn (acorns do have the same shapes as eggs!)
Sometimes you don’t even know you have been using them. It wasn’t until I heard about eggcorns that I realised I had been saying “damp squids” as opposed to “damp squibs”. Raises the question of whether I am still unwittingly saying things incorrectly.
Anyway - do you have a favourite eggcorn or willing to admit ones you have used by mistake?
Blockbuster said:
Someone getting their just desserts.
It sounds like a treat instead of a punishment, so maybe not a true eggcorn, but always makes me smile.
Eggcorn. Correct is “just deserts”. Nothing to do with pudding! But the phrase doesn’t make much sense to me looking at the individual words.It sounds like a treat instead of a punishment, so maybe not a true eggcorn, but always makes me smile.
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