Eggcorn
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eggcorn-175-11907691
title:
Eggcorn
text:
An eggcorn is the alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context. Thus, an eggcorn is an unexpectedly fitting or creative malapropism. The autological word "eggcorn" is itself an eggcorn, derived from acorn. Eggcorns often arise as people attempt to make sense of a stock phrase that uses a term unf
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Altered phrase that is still plausible
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
date created:
2005-01-23T15:54:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:00:26Z
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13
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