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Stan Carey<p>New eggcorn spotted in the wild: "sure up" instead of "shore up"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/eggcorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eggcorn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishUsage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>words</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageChange</span></a></p>
Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈<p>I was just recalling a conversation in recent years. Not sure when. It involves something like an <a href="https://c.im/tags/eggcorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eggcorn</span></a>, but with several different acronyms as sources. Perhaps an eggcornym?</p><p>I was somewhere, maybe a mechanic, where I had to receive a receipt or other paperwork that was several pages. The guy behind the counter apologized for using a paperclip, saying, “My stapler is AOL.”</p><p>Apparently he was conflating AWOL (absent without leave) &amp; SOL (shit outta luck) to produce AOL (America Online). I had the idea he was grasping for the right phrase, trying to come up with AWOL. The premise behind an eggcorn is that it makes sense of an utterance whose origins are not known to the speaker. Instead, he might have realized the error &amp; corrected it if he listened to a recording or something. So this might be a little different thing.</p><p>Still funny.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈<p>Aight. I finally looked up the revoltingly named "Eggcorn." Interesting how language evolves through error. It's surprising that educated journalists &amp; most others now consistently use "advocate for" (intransitive) instead of "advocate" (transitive). This has happened in fairly recent years, though I don't think this is exactly an <a href="https://c.im/tags/eggcorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eggcorn</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
Andrew Shields<p>United States President Donald Trump and “raw earth”, his eggcorn for “rare earth”. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>111Words</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RawEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RawEarth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RareEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RareEarth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Eggcorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eggcorn</span></a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/united-states-president-donald-trump.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/united-states-president-donald-trump.html</span></a></p>
Mx. Luna Corbden<p>Someone was talking on here about "eggcorns," misheard and misrepeated common phrases, and I want to give a big shoutout to my friend, Zoom transcription, for the phrase "from the gecko," which it loves loves loves to use.</p><p><a href="https://defcon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://defcon.social/tags/eggcorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eggcorn</span></a></p>