Eggcorn Forum

I recently encountered this:

It’s totally legal but they completely miss represent what they’re offering to make it sound different than what it really is
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Here are some other examples of the word “miss” being substituted for the prefix “mis-” in various words:

Those at America’s Ellis Island during the great immigrations to the US are often blamed for miss-spelling names.
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Oh yes. I miss read the question. I thought OP was asking One Way Binding in general.
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One of the things that has always intrigued me, bedeviled me, fascinated me and therefore inspired me, is the way that couples communicate, or more accurately, miss-communicate; the way that one person says one thing and the other hears something completely different…
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Ideal for end user products that may miss-align over a period of time as the operator can manually adjust the length by 10mm so to compensate any miss-alignment issues
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and i have notice sometimes i explain things in a bizarre fashion people aren’t use to and could miss-perceive my intended points for something else. misinterpretations happens to many people.
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[Note the correct use of the prefix “mis-” in “misinterpretations”, shortly after this writer’s “miss-perceive”.]

The danger of doing otherwise is that I will believe I already “know” something and miss interpret observations that are outside my current model.
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Merriam-Webster defines “mis-” as:
1 a : badly : wrongly—misjudge
b : unfavorably—misesteem
c : in a suspicious manner—misdoubt
2 bad : wrong—misdeed
3 opposite or lack of—mistrust
4 not—misknow

“Miss”, of course, means not to hit something you’re aiming at. “Miss” and “mis-” are etymologically connected, but generally different in their meanings as used today. In the example above, it’s easy to see an eggcornish interpretation: e.g., misinterpreting something involves “missing” the right interpretation; misperceiving something involves “missing” the accurate perception, etc. This eggcornish meaning confusion between “miss” and “mis-” could hold true for just about every use of “mis-” in various words.