| No, eggcorns sound almost identical to the intended form, and, crucially, are plausible as alternative analyses of them. |
| An eggcorn is the substitution of a word or phrase for words that sound similar.Can you put together a list of the eggcorns in this column? |
| Mandarin eggcorns will be even easier to detect than English ones. |
| The eggcorns mount up alarmingly here at Language Log Plaza. |
| Most of the eggcorns we've been collecting show up in spelling. |
| First, eggcorns usually involve homophones or near homophones, compared to malapropisms, which usually involve similar sounding words. |
