Discussions about eggcorns and related topics
You are not logged in.
Registrations are currently closed because of a technical problem. Please send email to
The forum administrator reserves the right to request users to plausibly demonstrate that they are real people with an interest in the topic of eggcorns. Otherwise they may be removed with no further justification. Likewise, accounts that have not been used for posting may be removed.
Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
This may be a brand new one. I found no mention of it on this website. It seems like a perfectly good eggcorn; the meaning connection is certainly there. I can’t give any notion of how prevalent it is, because I haven’t figured out a way to google this one that wouldn’t give me a needle-in-the-haystack situation with 20 million hits to look through, but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered it before.
“Her husband priced his laptop so much that he probably spent more time with it than her.” (from a story on the Internet)
Whaddaya think—new eggcorn or not?
Dixon
Offline