By the way, there seems to be a little discrepancy in what an eggcorn actually is. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Robert Coren checked out my last eggcorn posting on LL and inquired. |
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. |