#eggcorn — Public Fediverse posts

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

@UncleDuke1969 another #eggcorn

I think i got a new #eggcorn today: Piked my interest for piqued my interest. As of course Pikes are prickly sharp.

@LikeItOrLumpIt

#eggcorn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

@TheBreadmonkey @LikeItOrLumpIt

https://beige.party/@amiserabilist/115276909599378460

#eggcorn

i will always think of ben's saucy jizz when i think of sausages now.

can i get a hot semen roll please?

I made the waitress mad the other day.

I asked her “Can I ask you a question about the menu, please?”

She slapped me and said “The men I please is none of your business.”

@LikeItOrLumpIt

reminded me of this thread:

https://mstdn.social/@LikeItOrLumpIt/115276974841495128

#eggcorn

I just spotted an #eggcorn that's new to me. Someone wrote "world wind day" rather than "whirlwind day."

The thing that makes an eggcorn an eggcorn is not that it's simply the misuse of word, but that it makes some kind of sense. Presumably this person imagined a wind so powerful that it wrapped around the whole globe.

Eggcorn, a mis-understanding of "acorn" makes sense to the user because they see something egg-shaped that's a seed (corn).

It's a fascinating phenomenon!

RE: https://aus.social/@Margaritak/115726008755271264

An #eggcorn spotted in the wild.

Websters has this article that explains the phrase “by and large” so you can avoid its misuse. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20and%20large

#ScottLinguistics

I'm finding it very hard to deal with the fact that the correct phrase is "shore up" not "sure up".

I've been using the English language for almost 40 years and it was only today that I found this out.

Be kind.

#Eggcorn

CAW Presents: What is an Eggcorn??
"Once described as a 'slip of the ear,' an eggcorn is the written expression of a plausible mishearing of a standard term." Ruth Walker, Journalist
#Eggcorn #CAW #CartersvilleAreaWriters #CAWPresents #Writers #WritingCommunity

@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"?)

#linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

#eggcorn spotted in the wild (a Facebook group):

Air on the side of caution.

New eggcorn spotted in the wild: "sure up" instead of "shore up"

#eggcorn #linguistics #language #EnglishUsage #words #LanguageChange

I just heard a new (to me) #eggcorn on the PBS Newshour: The guest said (and host repeated) that re-shoring jobs was a “pretense” for the tariffs. This is a particularly tricky near-synonym for “pretext” don’t you think?

Seeing a few #eggcorn examples doing the rounds reminds me that as a child in the mid-80s I thought that the chorus to Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" was...

"You get your money for nothing and your chips for free".

I mean, who doesn't like free chips?

Now the Buddha's on the other foot

(#eggcorn or #mondegreen?)

Someone was talking on here about "eggcorns," misheard and misrepeated common phrases, and I want to give a big shoutout to my friend, Zoom transcription, for the phrase "from the gecko," which it loves loves loves to use.

#English #eggcorn

New(?) #eggcorn: algorithm -> lithogram

Trailers for St. Laurent...

#MisheadLyrics #Eggcorn

#OH #Eggcorn “She didn’t batter an eyelid.”

I can't understand why the malapropism "diffuse [a fraught situation]" has become so common. It seems obvious (to me) that it's supposed to be *defuse*, as in "defuse a bomb". Why would "spread it all around very thinly" make any sense?

Come on, people. You want to DEFUSE a situation.

#English #usage #grammar #eggcorn

I just heard a youTuber say “kid’s gloves” for handling something delicately.

A perfect #eggcorn in that the original phrase - “kid gloves”, made from delicate kid (yes baby goat) leather - and the mangling could possibly both mean handling something delicately.

Probably, though, “kid’s gloves” should mean “clumsily”.

Or “attached to each other with a string running through the sleeves and over the shoulders”

An **eggcorn** is the alteration of a phrase through mishearing, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense

examples:

"doggy dog world" for "dog eat dog world"
"pass mustard" for "pass muster"
"to the manor born" for "to the manner born"
"wet your appetite" for "whet your appetite"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
#language #eggCorn

@Chrishallbeck
Nice #eggcorn you found there.

@Miro_Collas
#TodayILearned I was using an #eggcorn. Based on pronunciation, I was writing "The villain got his just desserts" (SS as in Strawberry Shortcake, not S as in Sahara). It should be "just deserts". Turns out that "deserts" here is an old term for "what is deserved, either reward or punishment". #TIL

Are you getting these phrases wrong too? | EGGCORNS - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F12LSAbos7A

Oh finally, someone tackles those ridiculous phrases so many use without thinking.

Ex. "free reign" should be "free rein".

#Language #English #Eggcorn #Malapropism #Mondegreen