#eggcorn — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eggcorn, aggregated by home.social.
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#nurotypical: “toe the line”
#neurodivergent: “tow the line”
neurotypical: hey, that’s #malapropism!
neurodivergent: actually, the correct term is #eggcorn, which—
neurotypical: just finish your damn meal
neurodivergent: bone apple tea 🧌Best practice: the last line has to be delivered with a completely deadpan face.
— #linguistic #autism 101
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@yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!
Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"
What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)
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New eggcorn spotted in the wild: "sure up" instead of "shore up"
#eggcorn #linguistics #language #EnglishUsage #words #LanguageChange