Along with this eggcorn came a classical malapropism as well. |
Rachael Briggs sent in a lovely example of that rare subspecies the resyllabification eggcorn. |
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. |
By the way, there seems to be a little discrepancy in what an eggcorn actually is. |
I suspect that the spelling was a folk etymology, an eggcorn, that replaced the unfamiliar element linch with the familiar word lynch. |
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. |