Eggcorn?? Deepseeded

Thu Apr 26 13:46:58 UTC 2007

On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:02 AM, Margaret Lee wrote:

> One of my students wrote the following about a character in a
> novel:  "His idealogies of the world are *deeply seeded* within
> him."  Is this use of "deepseeded" instead of "deepseated" an eggcorn?

one of the earliest in the ecdb:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/46/seed/

arnold

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