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Biting our time with eggcorns

November 21, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in linguistic essay

An introduction to eggcorns using examples from the Eggcorn Database, NPR, and other sources

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November 21, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
language variation, eggcorns, malapropisms, folk etymology
linguistic essay
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