| By the way, there seems to be a little discrepancy in what an eggcorn actually is. |
| Rachael Briggs sent in a lovely example of that rare subspecies the resyllabification eggcorn. |
| If I'm right about this, it's only the spelling that signals the eggcorn, because lynchpin of course sounds just like linchpin. |
| 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. |
| I suspect that the spelling was a folk etymology, an eggcorn, that replaced the unfamiliar element linch with the familiar word lynch. |
