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Chris -- 2018-04-11
When I was looking up “ding” in the OED for a post I did earlier today, I came across a prehistoric eggcorn. The OED notes that “ding,” which is derived from the sound of a bell, has been confused with “din.” Examples:
1749 J. RAY Hist. Reb. (1752) 383 The noisy ding of the great falls of water. 1868 DORAN Saints & Sin. I. 114 The Puritan pulpits resounded..with the ding of politics.
“Din” supposedly derives from a Germanic root for “rushing or thundering noise.”
This would be a non idiomatized eggcorn, a flounder eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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