| That one seems to be a joke, though it's hard to be sure, but there are many folks out there for whom the same phrase is an eggcorn. |
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| I suspect that the spelling was a folk etymology, an eggcorn, that replaced the unfamiliar element linch with the familiar word lynch. |
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| By the way, there seems to be a little discrepancy in what an eggcorn actually is. |
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| But to succeed as an eggcorn, a collocation has to have something going for it, a theory that licenses it and makes it seem reasonable. |
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| If I'm right about this, it's only the spelling that signals the eggcorn, because lynchpin of course sounds just like linchpin. |
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| Rachael Briggs sent in a lovely example of that rare subspecies the resyllabification eggcorn. |
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| Robert Coren checked out my last eggcorn posting on LL and inquired. |
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| I really enjoy reading your ' eggcorn ' entries on the Language Log. |
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| Along with this eggcorn came a classical malapropism as well. |
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| At first, I thought that this was only an urban legend eggcorn, but of the 359 examples in Google's current index, I found a few apparent keepers. |
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| Can you put together a list of the eggcorns in this column? An eggcorn is the substitution of a word or phrase for words that sound similar. |
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| When I got home that night, the eggcorn led to the mondegreen, which is right up there with the spoonerism, and I forgot that the professor was making a point: spell-check does not catch homophones. |
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| An eggcorn is the substitution of a word or phrase for words that sound similar.Can you put together a list of the eggcorns in this column? |
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| Eggcorn itself has a certain logic, for example, because acorns are roughly the shape of eggs. |
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