assanine--a new eggcorn?

[Herb Stahlke]

I had thought of that one as a parallel to "assanine," but it's not.
Replacing the initial a- with "egg" changes the second syllable from a
meaningless syllable to a morpheme.  That's not the case with "assanine."

Herb

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com>
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> > Actually, going through the eggcorn list, it's hard to find many like
> > "assinine" in which one non-morpheme part of word is replaced by a
> morpheme
> > without changing the rest of the word.
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> Well, there's always "eggcorn"! :->
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