Eggcorn Forum

270 raw hits. This is one of those reshapings that end up seeming to say the opposite of what they intend. In an article on eggcorns in the Salisbury [No. Carolina] Post, Katie Scarvey entertainingly wrote:

My favorite student eggcorn: “He has gray hair and a reseeding hairline.”
Oh, the hope implicit in the word “reseeding,” as though thinning hair is just going through a fallow period, and with the right cultivation will eventually sprout again.
http://www.salisburypost.com/lifestyle/ … 076959.php

As one who has lost a fair bit in the Great Recession, I’d like to believe that my hairline will re-seed and that this is more than a fortuitously cute misspelling. But I’m not completely convinced by either proposition. Examples:

Bulging stomach, reseeding hairline, and all those beautiful traits a forty year old salesman from Tuskegee gets from his old man.
http://www.omenspirits.com/48hrstilDawn.htm

Set this bad boy on Pro or All Pro and you are in for a game that may result in an early reseeding hairline.
http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/revie … ame=nfl2k1

The photo shows a guy in his forties, black hair, subtle reseeding hairline, black beard, not bad looking guy so what the hell continue the chit chat right?
http://adventureindating.blogspot.com/2 … dwarf.html

I don’t want to be that dorky looking guy with a comb over or a reseeding hairline. I too plan on joining the elite club of bald men.
http://www.baldrus.com/guestarc1.htm
http://adventureindating.blogspot.com/2 … dwarf.html

I really like my husband’s entry about his “reseeding” hairline . . . if it was “reseeding” then he wouldn’t have a problem. :-) I think he meant “receding” (as in moving back or thinning) and not “reseeding” (as in to seed again).
http://www.omenspirits.com/48hrstilDawn.htm