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Noun Concept
Categories: Words and phrases introduced in 2003, Acorns, Lexicology, Etymology
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eggcorn  All intensive purposes  egg corn  Eggcorns  For all intensive purposes
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An eggcorn is the alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context. Wikipedia
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An eggcorn is the alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context. Wikipedia
Idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase, such as "egg corn" for "acorn". Wikidata
An idiosyncratic but semantically motivated substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound identical, or nearly so, at least in the dialect the speaker uses. Wiktionary
IS A
phrase
word
phono-semantic matching
DIFFERENT FROM
folk etymology
mondegreen
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Geoffrey K. Pullum
NAMED AFTER
acorn
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eggcorn
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eggcorn
Wiktionary
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eggcorn
Wikipedia Redirections
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All intensive purposes, egg corn, Eggcorns, For all intensive purposes, Intensive purposes

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