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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Found this one on the Livejournal community Linguaphiles:
http://community.livejournal.com/lingua … 63039.html
A cursory Google search yielded a disappointingly small number of hits, but maybe that just reflects the small number of amateur linguists making eggcorn-style errors regarding terms relevant to their field?
In any case, the alternate spelling makes some sense. A loneword tends to be a word that is exceptional in its orthography or pronunciation or otherwise exceptional when taking into account the conventions of the target language.
Anyone else have experience with this eggcorn?
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