Eggcorn - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
By Miss Grammar Lady on Oct 13, 2009 | In Incorrect Usage, Eggcorns | Send feedback »
Link: http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/eggcorn.html
I'm just testing the bookmarket thingie. Anyway -- eggcorns! (See the attached link.) No, it's not a dessert -- though it sounds delicious -- but a grammatical term for words used by mistake that sound the same as the word that should have been used. Or as the site puts it:
Eggcorns are words or phrases that are used by mistake, usually because they are homophones or sound similar to the original words. People often write 'wet your appetite', while the original expression is 'whet your appetite', but the two words sound the same.
Okay, for some reason the buttons don't work in the bookmarklet. Whatever.
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