Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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Something happened; this statement is the one in which i explain how user error and/or technical issues contributed to the disappearance of a rather lengthy entry, optionally including some ranting. Rather than attempt to reconstruct the original entry (an impressive scholarly effort on the linguistic diffusion of the All Your Base phenomenon), I shall instead highlight a new resource, The Eggcorn Database. Eggcorns are described in much more detail in this Language Log entry (and many subsequent discussions on the Language Log). In short, they are errors of usage (as in "egg corn" in place of "acorn") -- "linguistic errors" in which the erroneous form makes some sense -- perhaps more sense than the original form in this day in age (~10,600 Google hits vs. ~662,000 for "in this day and age", and only 3 for "in this dane age").
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 3:51:28 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  |  Related posts:
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