eggcorn

== English == === Etymology === Suggested by British-American linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum following a discussion on the Language Log website on September 23, 2003, by American linguist Mark Liberman, about a woman who had long believed the word acorn to be egg corn. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛɡkɔːn/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɛɡkɔɹn/ (Northwestern US, areas of Canada) IPA(key): /ˈeɪɡkɔɹn/ Hyphenation: egg‧corn === Noun === eggcorn (plural eggcorns) (linguistics) A word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase either on its own or as part of a set expression [from 2003] === See also === Category:Eggcorns by language Category:English eggcorns mishearing folk etymology, reanalysis, rebracketing, paronymic attraction catachresis, malapropism misconstruction mondegreen Hobson-Jobson, phono-semantic matching === References === === Further reading === eggcorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Eggcorn database