Eggcorn Forum

Welcome to the forum, sammka.

This is a favorite of mine. It was first posted by Ken Lakritz in July, 2005. Here’s Ken’s post, smooshed:

# 487 Commentary by Ken Lakritz , 2005/07/18 at 10:32 pm
‘fiercesome’ for ‘fearsome. Very eggcornish, since fierce creatures inspire fear, and very common- over 5,000 ghits. Notice that while most eggcorns involve omitting or swallowing a consonant, this eggcorn adds one, at least if carefully pronounced. Examples:
“It’s quite a fiercesome troll!” the shadowmaker tells the children gathered in
the theatre “And you should all feel quite upset by it!”
neilgaimanboard.com/eve/u…
For my money, the NZ sand fly is the meanest most fiercesome predator on the globe.
www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bi…
Goddess Tara … she is depicted as one of the eight major aspects of the Divine Feminine Principle, a loving manifestation in contrast to the fiercesome Kali.
www.crystalinks.com/tara….
Penthesilea, fiercesome and beautiful, succeeds in routing the Greeks until
Achilles rises from the ranks to slay her.
www.alessonislearned.com/…
Libertarians think as the founders did, that we need some government, but, like
fire, government is a dangerous servant and a fiercesome master.
www.gothamist.com/archive…
Clear Plastic Cups … Not a terribly fiercesome weapon but considering they’ve banned nail-clippers, still capable of causing some harm.
blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/arch…