Comments on: Found Any Eggcorns Lately?

By: Sharon Hurley Hall

Sharon Hurley Hall — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:59:32 +0000

That’s a good one, Helen.

By: helen

helen — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:35:18 +0000

Also “The rumours spread like wildflowers” (Quite a reasonable alternative, I’d say!)

By: helen

helen — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:32:59 +0000

I’ve got two examples:
“If you think that, you’ve got another thing coming” Over the years I have tried to convince classfuls of children that the word is “think” not “thing”, meaning if you think that you must think again. All to no avail, the general consensus being that if their parents say it like that it must be right.
The second example is a friend who persisted in describing certain people as “foamy”, which made as much, if not more, sense to her than “phoney”.

By: Patinho

Patinho — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:37:33 +0000

I have a French colleague who loves an eggcorn every now and again.

The best is when he sleazily said about a female colleague “she is a very dark sheep that one” and winked.

By: venqax

venqax — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:22:25 +0000

“pickind their cases is the purgative of the Supreme Court” is my favoriite. Also, tow the line, a hard road to tow. a hair-brained idea, and those wolves in cheap clothing. Don’t take it for granite. I have to wear a tuck sedo to the Nota Republic’s. Anchors Away! is another you’ll see, evenin print at times.