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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Anne Curzan reports a new eggcorn in a blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Broil over” for “boil over.” It’s new not only to the ED but also to the Eggcorn Forum.
It may be an eggcorn, but it is not, in my opinion, a good one. “Broil over” doesn’t generate much of an image. Nothing, certainly, to compete with the metaphor-provoking picture of a pot boiling over. Perhaps it is an awkward blend the two “overs” in “broiling X over the file” and “X boiling over.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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