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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The hackles of a bird are long slender feathers on its neck that are attached to muscles, and can be erected in anger. Something that raises your hackles gets you angry or rubs you the wrong way. “Cackle”, on the other hand, is imitative of a throat sound, this one a repetitive and joyous sound – the expression of parental pride and celebration that the chicken makes when it lays another egg. So to raise one’s cackles is definitely a confused metaphor, and surely a malapropism. Even stranger is something the razes one’s hackles. That would be like changing your look from mohawk to skinhead, perhaps.
Game forum:
I was pretty ambivalent about Carson’s death (yeah, it was sad, but it didn’t raise my cackles or anything) and felt pretty much the same about his clone’s appearance.
(http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=52277)
Game forum:
These are honestly the only arguments that completely and utterly raise my cackles and blood pressure.
(http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/co … ory&page=1)
Dating site background check:
Good question. If going out with someone means “The Man” will be looking into my business, that would definitely raise my cackles and rub my freedom-loving butt the wrong way.
(http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts9304202.aspx)
10 ughits
Car club:
What im saying here is I think is why cut our noses off to spite our faces ? This is one area of the real world that raizes my hackles – where “I’ll only join a group of people doing the samething providing they bale me out if I experience an accident or some other ill fate in life as part of the card play”.
Junk science rant:
Just so we’re all singing off the same page – I’m not real clear on a lot of scientific things. When I hear something that razes my hackles though (even if I don’t quite understand it), I run to Jim and DEMAND an explanation
(http://suzilive.com/?p=7)
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