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").