Eggcorn Forum

You can get a reputation through repeated (good or bad) behavior, so replacing “reputation” with “repetition” has some semantic logic to it. Someone might say, for example, “The concertmaster caught me listening to Atomic Kitten on my iPod during the rehearsal for Beethoven’s Ninth. My repetition is shot.”

“Reputation->repetition” is a hard error to document because it has loose idiomatic embedding. I managed to find about 20 unique examples of the switch on the web. Six of them:

Post on a political forum: “How is it, that someone who comes along and simply reads the title of a thread, without knowing what my opinion is, can give you a bad repitition ?

Sudanese bulletin board: “He is a liar and will earn this marvelous site a bad repitition among those who can’t clearly tell the differences. ”

CD review: “As I said before, Amon Amarth have a repitition for being consistent. So, of course, the production is sound, and, in my eyes, flawless.”

Response on Yahoo Answers: “if your mom wasn’t going to like the bellybutton ring then she will hate the toungue ring. the toungue has a repitition for being associcated with porn stars and strippers”

MySpace diary entry: “After school I asked him why he covered for me, he put his arms around me and said “maybe to keep my repitition for the ladies””

Facebook note: “I know I am a sinner and that I am not perfect, yet my repitition of doing what I don’t want to do is something I despise.”