| Most of the eggcorns we've been collecting show up in spelling. |
| First, eggcorns usually involve homophones or near homophones, compared to malapropisms, which usually involve similar sounding words. |
| No, eggcorns sound almost identical to the intended form, and, crucially, are plausible as alternative analyses of them. |
| Mandarin eggcorns will be even easier to detect than English ones. |
| Finally, there are examples that appear to be in a special category of non-native-speaker eggcorns. |
| The eggcorns mount up alarmingly here at Language Log Plaza. |
