FAO @goodjobbrain.bsky.social #EggCorn
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#eggcorn
Posts tagged #eggcorn on Bluesky
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Mandelson has had days and days to run around in his white fronts and destroy evidence one might also conclude.
White fronts #eggcorn
(Is the alternative yellow fronts, I wonder?)
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The #eggcorn database is currently held hostage in the dispute that I have with our 20-year hosting provider, A Small Orange. I guess they're part of @networksolutions.bsky.social now - and that've been unhappy for a while would be an understatement. For example I had manually set up Let's Encrypt.
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I just spotted an #eggcorn that's new to me. Someone wrote "world wind day" rather than "whirlwind day."
The thing that makes an eggcorn an eggcorn is not that it's simply the misuse of word, but that it makes some kind of sense. Presumably this person imagined a wind so powerful that it […]
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RE: https://aus.social/@Margaritak/115726008755271264
An #eggcorn spotted in the wild.
Websters has this article that explains the phrase “by and large” so you can avoid its misuse. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20and%20la...
#ScottLinguistics
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I'm finding it very hard to deal with the fact that the correct phrase is "shore up" not "sure up".
I've been using the English language for almost 40 years and it was only today that I found this out.
Be kind.
#Eggcorn
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#exvoid #castofthousands #thebirdcalls #deanwareham #alpinesubs #lillyhiatt #therishis #moonorchids #neublume #eggcorn #thesomethingspecials #pinapalau @impulsivehearts.bsky.social #emmamunger #thelemonheads #fieldress #footox #samcharlesworth #villagerrr @thebeths.bsky.social #testsubjects
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![BlueSky post with user name cut off message reads:
“On the one hand, I’m glad there could be more special elections.
On the other I’m furious that these millionaires are retiring with a cushy NEXT EGG [sic] as soon as their job gets even a little bit difficult. *sad face emoji*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ygffpqh65liihi7lqg7ke65l/bafkreia6nq33akn7twq6jxwvin46nfixjyzuapbecfjsy2ly6qnvfj5u3i)
BlueSky post with user name cut off message reads: “On the one hand, I’m glad there could be more special elections. On the other I’m furious that these millionaires are retiring with a cushy NEXT EGG [sic] as soon as their job gets even a little bit difficult. *sad face emoji*
@goodjobbrain.bsky.social I think I may have found a new #Eggcorn (might just be a typo but “Next egg”
Is more fun.
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My child has been invited to an aerial gymnastics party and is very excited to have a go on the ‘aerial raccoon’. An excellent #eggcorn for aerial cocoon.
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transparency seems to be fav word among the far right everywhere when they’re talking about opaqueness and shadiness.
Is it fair to consider it the birth of a new eggcorn/malapropism? 🤔
#linguistics #eggcorn #malapropism
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The word has been skunked.
It's just a #parapropism / #eggcorn for "devastated", but combining it with a quantity or percentage highlights its inappropriateness.
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I just heard a new (to me) #eggcorn on the PBS Newshour: The guest said (and host repeated) that re-shoring jobs was a "pretense" for the tariffs. This is a particularly tricky near-synonym for "pretext" don't you think?
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Just heard a podcaster say "run the gambit" instead of "gamut" and I guess I just needed to express that somewhere. #eggcorn #starwars
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Seeing a few #eggcorn examples doing the rounds reminds me that as a child in the mid-80s I thought that the chorus to Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" was...
"You get your money for nothing and your chips for free".
I mean, who doesn't like free chips?
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An eggcorn is when you hear a phrase as having different elements than originally intended, but in a way that’s still plausible. “eggcorn” itself is an eggcorn for “acorn”.
Here are 15 more!
https://buff.ly/4gJdwT3
How many of these eggcorns have you ever used?
#eggcorn #linguistics #language
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This is maybe the best #eggcorn (analysis error in dealing with an unknown word, producing a new incorrect usage) I’ve come across in a long time.
See if you figure it out before reading the replies. I didn’t! #linguistics
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Screenshot of review of saugerties park and ride, describing it as a “perfect spot for a restbit”
I was amused to see that there were *reviews* on Google for the local Park & Ride. Even more amused to discover this delightful eggcorn.
#eggcorn #languagelog #respite
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Thrilled to hear an #EggCorn just now - my kidH is slowly getting tall enough to see himself in the mirror without the still and said ‘I can see my fourth head’.
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Was just catching up on some emails and in a conversation about social networking someone misspelled the word "ecosystem" as "egosystem" and it is the best #eggcorn I've seen in the wild. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
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Just learned that “painstaking” was originally “pains-taking” (to take pains) not “pain-staking”. A classic #eggcorn!
#linguistics #language #etymology
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