#eggcorn spotted in the wild (a Facebook group):

Air on the side of caution.

#HashtagGames
#DogBerryASongOrPoem

I found my pills
On Blueberry hill
#EggCorn

New eggcorn spotted in the wild: "sure up" instead of "shore up"

I was just recalling a conversation in recent years. Not sure when. It involves something like an #eggcorn, but with several different acronyms as sources. Perhaps an eggcornym?

I was somewhere, maybe a mechanic, where I had to receive a receipt or other paperwork that was several pages. The guy behind the counter apologized for using a paperclip, saying, “My stapler is AOL.”

Apparently he was conflating AWOL (absent without leave) & SOL (shit outta luck) to produce AOL (America Online). I had the idea he was grasping for the right phrase, trying to come up with AWOL. The premise behind an eggcorn is that it makes sense of an utterance whose origins are not known to the speaker. Instead, he might have realized the error & corrected it if he listened to a recording or something. So this might be a little different thing.

Still funny.

Aight. I finally looked up the revoltingly named "Eggcorn." Interesting how language evolves through error. It's surprising that educated journalists & most others now consistently use "advocate for" (intransitive) instead of "advocate" (transitive). This has happened in fairly recent years, though I don't think this is exactly an #eggcorn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

United States President Donald Trump and “raw earth”, his eggcorn for “rare earth”. #111Words #DonaldTrump #RawEarth #Ukraine #RareEarth #Eggcorn https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/united-states-president-donald-trump.html

Someone was talking on here about "eggcorns," misheard and misrepeated common phrases, and I want to give a big shoutout to my friend, Zoom transcription, for the phrase "from the gecko," which it loves loves loves to use.

Trailers for St. Laurent...

I can't understand why the malapropism "diffuse [a fraught situation]" has become so common. It seems obvious (to me) that it's supposed to be *defuse*, as in "defuse a bomb". Why would "spread it all around very thinly" make any sense?

Come on, people. You want to DEFUSE a situation.

I just heard a youTuber say “kid’s gloves” for handling something delicately.

A perfect #eggcorn in that the original phrase - “kid gloves”, made from delicate kid (yes baby goat) leather - and the mangling could possibly both mean handling something delicately.

Probably, though, “kid’s gloves” should mean “clumsily”.

Or “attached to each other with a string running through the sleeves and over the shoulders”

An **eggcorn** is the alteration of a phrase through mishearing, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense

examples:

"doggy dog world" for "dog eat dog world"
"pass mustard" for "pass muster"
"to the manor born" for "to the manner born"
"wet your appetite" for "whet your appetite"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
#language #eggCorn

I got a new to me #eggcorn text today 'I'll be out in a gif' @stancarey

Are you getting these phrases wrong too? | EGGCORNS - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F12LSAbos7A

Oh finally, someone tackles those ridiculous phrases so many use without thinking.

Ex. "free reign" should be "free rein".

Came across my first pseudo-#eggcorn on Mastodon: "precedence" for "precedent" in the #legal sense when talking about #ClarenceThomas and the #SCOTUS.

Nice student paper #eggcorn: “ancestory.” #language #linguistics #genealogy #family #history #histodons @histodons

Fun #eggcorn spotted: “micro chasm” #linguistics @lingthusiasm @languagelovers #language