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Chris -- 2018-04-11
One of my sons-in-law submitted on our family electronic forum an “eggcorn of the day”: a description and explanation from someone called (or at least handled?) Lisa Guitar Komoroski. I don’t know where Lisa wrote it.
Yes, I think this [eggcorn production / recognition?] happens to everyone. It’s fun when it does. I learned a few months ago that peon is a real word and not just a slang phrase spelled “pee on”. I understood when the word was used and knew how to apply it appropriately myself but I really thought it was a slang phrase, not a dedicated word. I must have only ever heard it spoken & never seen it in print.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2022-03-26 08:54:48)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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