{"id":609,"date":"2006-08-09T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=609"},"modified":"2020-01-03T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T14:42:34","slug":"eggcorns-hooray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/eggcorns-hooray\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggcorns, hooray!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun read: Mark Peters in The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em>, writing about eggcorns.<\/p>\n

So what’s an eggcorn? Originally, the word “eggcorn” was just an amusing misspelling of “acorn.” Linguists — especially those on the Language Log blog<\/a> — noticed that “eggcorn” made a kind of intuitive sense and was an apt guess if you didn’t know the real spelling.<\/p>\n

. . . All eggcorns makes sense on some level. For example, the eggcorn “girdle one’s loins” is far more understandable than the archaic “gird one’s loins.” “Free reign” — an extremely common misspelling — expresses a similar laxness to “free rein,” and there’s a kind of exclamatory kismet between “whoa is me!” and “woe is me!” Another eggcorn, “woeth me!” makes an old-fashioned-sounding word even more so. And since a rabble-rouser may eventually cause some rubble to exist, “rubble-rouser” is a nifty invention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lots more examples in the article, plus the delightful revelation that one Chris Waigl has an Eggcorn Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know a fellow who used to coin them on purpose. Two of my favorites: “get to the crux of the biscuit” and “low dog on the scrotum pole” :-D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun read: Mark Peters in The Chronicle of Higher Education, writing about eggcorns. So what’s an eggcorn? Originally, the word “eggcorn” was just an amusing misspelling of “acorn.” Linguists — especially those on the Language Log blog — … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1424,1423,876,1445,1446,241],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-eggcorn-database","tag-eggcorns","tag-language","tag-language-log","tag-mark-liberman","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}