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"Karma sutra" for "Kama sutra" by mollymooly
Contribute! 8 2020-03-19 07:44:26 by ElenaMassageImmub
Things you read and understood but mispronounced in your mind by JonW719  [ 1 2 3 … 7 ]
Slips, innovations and reshapings 156 2019-07-02 11:47:54 by kem
Safe Deposit Box/Safety Deposit Box by Craig C Clarke
Contribute! 9 2019-06-24 09:07:51 by Peter Forster
'plough their trade" for "ply their trade" by terrycollmann
Contribute! 11 2018-01-15 10:09:56 by kem
Students' accounts of history: eggcorns, malapropisms, etc. by jorkel
Contribute! 6 2017-11-13 03:26:08 by Dixon Wragg
Grammar-based reshapings by jorkel
Slips, innovations and reshapings 9 2017-04-08 18:53:24 by Dixon Wragg
Hmm, wasn't quite sure where to fit this - feels like a suggestion... by Techwreck  [ 1 2 ]
Soapbox 39 2016-10-31 12:35:04 by yanogator
Barberry, Chestnut, Parsley Piert, Tangle by kem
Contribute! 4 2016-05-04 10:03:12 by kem
"vaulted opinion" for "vaunted opinion" by patschwieterman
Slips, innovations and reshapings 11 2016-01-20 15:39:09 by David Bird
New variation on hair/harebrained? by kchildress1
Contribute! 8 2015-11-06 21:54:00 by DavidTuggy
"sell speech" vs "sales pitch" by AdamVero
Contribute! 2 2015-07-11 11:42:49 by kem
On a tandem by daveh
Contribute! 3 2015-07-10 05:45:26 by AdamVero
fossil fuels, mammoth, undertaker by kem
Slips, innovations and reshapings 10 2014-12-19 08:53:49 by DavidTuggy
Free and unfetid by burred
Slips, innovations and reshapings 5 2014-12-17 06:28:28 by David Bird
Nineteen eighteen four by JuanTwoThree
Slips, innovations and reshapings 5 2014-12-17 06:22:57 by David Bird
botched periodic table by kem
Eggcornology 3 2014-12-16 23:45:07 by kem
Some antics by JuanTwoThree
Slips, innovations and reshapings 2 2014-12-16 07:15:07 by AdamVero
Gleam for glean, as in "you can gleam lots of information..." by AdamVero
Contribute! 5 2014-12-16 00:20:13 by Dixon Wragg
Eluded <> Alluded (malapropism, probably not eggcorn) by AdamVero
Contribute! 1 2014-11-26 00:51:26 by Dixon Wragg
disperse (for disburse) by Bob Ladd
Contribute! 7 2011-03-17 19:04:34 by Dixon Wragg
"samo samo" for "same old, same old" by jmpurkis
Contribute! 21 2010-08-02 16:15:29 by DavidTuggy
Died-in-the-wool by markstock
Contribute! 8 2009-12-14 02:19:46 by patschwieterman
Found in the wild or dreamt up and then looked for? by JuanTwoThree
Eggcornology 19 2009-12-11 08:57:36 by AdamVero
Eggcorns or only misspellings by Gordon
Soapbox 9 2009-12-11 08:49:06 by AdamVero
"Testermoney" for testimony by David Bird
Slips, innovations and reshapings 1 2009-12-11 04:27:07 by AdamVero
Larnyx for larynx, foilage for foliage by rhhardin
Contribute! 5 2009-10-10 19:04:09 by DavidTuggy
Strangely confusing and redundantly repetitive sign by AdamVero
Slips, innovations and reshapings 1 2009-10-06 20:43:48 by DavidTuggy
"insult" for "insole" by Fishbait2
Contribute! 3 2009-10-06 10:07:00 by AdamVero
words that seem inherently amusing, pleasant or odd by patschwieterman  [ 1 2 ]
Slips, innovations and reshapings 35 2009-10-06 09:42:24 by AdamVero
A Poultry Amount by JuanTwoThree
Contribute! 2 2009-10-06 09:13:56 by AdamVero

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