I really enjoy reading your ' eggcorn ' entries on the Language Log. |
Rachael Briggs sent in a lovely example of that rare subspecies the resyllabification eggcorn. |
If I'm right about this, it's only the spelling that signals the eggcorn, because lynchpin of course sounds just like linchpin. |
Robert Coren checked out my last eggcorn posting on LL and inquired. |
That one seems to be a joke, though it's hard to be sure, but there are many folks out there for whom the same phrase is an eggcorn. |
At first, I thought that this was only an urban legend eggcorn, but of the 359 examples in Google's current index, I found a few apparent keepers. |