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canola » granola

Chiefly in:   granola oil

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • “We use only PURE GRANOLA oil!” (menu of a small Cambodian restaurant)
  • The traditional Medieterranian diet, rich in olive oil, has much prevented obesity in this part of the worlds. The low cholesterol Granola oil (an artificial, genetically altered product), however, makes people obese. (curesone.com forum, June 26, 2003)
  • need prices C&F Guinea-west africa for the following products.
    5 gallon tins and 10 gallon drums of corn oil, peanut butter oil and granola oil-average quality. (Agriscape forum, March 16, 2004)
  • […] 1 ts cumin seeds, ¼ cup granola oil, 2 chopped onions […] (Tandoori Gril Whistler, Prawns in Sweet and Hot Curry)

Posted by Ned Deily on soc.motss, 17 January 2005. Originally from Ellen Evans, who found it on the menu of a small Cambodian restaurant.

| Comments Off link | entered by Arnold Zwicky, 2005/03/15 |

powerhouse » powerhorse

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • (1) This is a real powerhorse of a game, on two CDs; perhaps too powerful for the average machine in the home today. (2) If you need a powerhorse to cope with large flies, big or windy rivers and/or heavy sinkers there is nothing better. (3) Although it is a small kiln, it is a powerhorse for fusing and worked well for annealing. (link)

Reported on Philip Hofmeister’s blog for 4 February 2005. Hofmeister notes:

“Powerhorse” gets about 5,420 whG, while “powerhouse” gets 2,540,000, so it’s only about a 0.2 % eggcorn by the standards of Language Log . And for some reason, a huge proportion of the examples involve computers and software.

| 1 comment | link | entered by Arnold Zwicky, 2005/03/15 |

midst » mist

Chiefly in:   in the mist of

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • “well, in the mist of all of this with [name of spouse with cancer] I had fell and hit my head…” ()

From Larry Horn, on ADS-L, 22 February 2005:

from a contributor to a cancer survivors and caretakers support group:…

Whether this was a typo for “in the midst of” or a reanalysis isn’t
entirely knowable. But since the “all of this” in the context refers
to the murky complexity of misdiagnoses, denial of coverage, etc.
etc., I suspect the “mist” is in fact a reanalysis/eggcorn.

—–

To which Jon Lighter added the invented example:

“In the mist of life we are in death.”

—–

And on Language Log:

ML, 12/8/11: Lost in the miss of eggcorns:
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu…

| 2 comments | link | entered by Arnold Zwicky, 2005/03/15 |

catnap » catchnap

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • “Well, I can’t sleep at night. “I just catchnap through the day.” ()

Reported by Wilson Gray on ADS-L, 14 March 2005.

| Comments Off link | entered by Arnold Zwicky, 2005/03/15 |

amateur » armature

Classification: English – questionable

Spotted in the wild:

  • “I’m an armature bullfighter and that is my inspiration.” (link)
  • “I’m an armature writer. What I see isn’t ip addresses or message ID information. What I see if a little deeper.” (link)
| 6 comments | link | entered by jaknine, 2005/03/14 |
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