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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Writer Jen Doll takes on eggcorns at the Atlantic Wire.. She mentions a cr-edible eggcorn that we seem to have missed in the Database and on the Forum: “mating name” for “maiden name.”
Some examples: https://www.google.ca/search?q=%22her%20mating+name%22
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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That’s an absolute beauty. How did we miss it?
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