egghorn

Fri May 19 18:00:38 UTC 2006

On May 19, 2006, at 8:01 AM, David Bergdahl wrote:

> I just checked--no one has created a Wikipedia article on egghorns
> yet.
> Volunteers, anyone?

there is a Wikipedia entry on eggcorns, which are probably what you
had in mind.

the meta-error "egghorn" was commented on by mark liberman on
Language Log back on 9/8/04:

   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001430.html

there is as yet no entry in the eggcorn database for it.

arnold

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