Eggcorn Forum

‘Bunker down’ is in Jan Freeman’s language column in today’s Boston Globe, listed as one of several new and improved annoyances for usage snobs.
(http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/ … lacements/)

But one man’s peeve is another man’s eggcorn, and this seems like a perfectly good one. Arnold Zwicky agrees; he had already blogged about ‘bunker down’ in september, 2004 at Langauge Log.
(http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language … 01419.html) It’s very popular- about 25k ghits:

Myanmar’s generals bunker down in mountain compound.
english.dvb.no/news.php?id=5907

After Tourism’s volley, hoteliers bunker down with figures.
www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=6725

Epinions has the best comparison shopping information on Epinions.com – Bunker
Down for the Nuclear Winter.
www.epinions.com/game-review-20C-18CB504-38CC9934-prod3

“New England is fighting for their playoff lives. We’ve got to get up early.
If we get down against a team like that they’re going to bunker down…”
www.cybersoccernews.com/mls/rapids/0409 … sadv.shtml

jill and i are preparing to leave vermont tonight to head down to florida, just
in time to get groceries and bunker down for hurricane dennis.
the0ry.net/blogger/2005_07_01_archive.html