Eggcorn Forum

The deeper we dig for the roots of eggcorns, the more we get caught up in the gray areas, the maybe-eggcorns, the doesn’t-really-feel-like-eggcorns. The entire eggcorn concept is still being clarified and delimited.

Here is some reading from Language Log, if you are interested in non-eggcorns that are yet sufficiently close to be hard to distinguish from what we call eggcorns.

1. Arnold Zwicky opens a number of illuminating paths with his post Pails and flounders .

1. As for the Cupertino Effect, see Ben Zimmer’s illustrated article, and Ben once more on how Cupertino can put a question mark over the otherwise perfectly fine eggcorn “unkempt secrets”.