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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The eggcorn “marshmellow†was noted (without discussion) in 2006: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=317. It’s an extremely common word-over 800K ghits. “Marshmellow” is a good candidate for the eggcorn database-mellow is the experience of eating a ‘mellow, yes?
To complete the roundtrip, “mallow out†appears in few places on the web:
Personal page: “Jordan has gone to bed for the night and i can watch tele with a few beers n a smoke and mallow out.†(http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=8519920)
Comment on music review site: “cool tunes the sort of music you can just sit back mallow out and take it all in….†(http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/review/album/s1456152.htm)
New Zealand travel site: “Just mallow out in the Bay of Islands, before returning to Auckland that day.†(http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/nzeala … rt_ni.html)
Perhaps these people are thinking about the satiny and succulent mallow filling in creme eggs.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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