"last stitch effort"

[David Bowie]

From:    "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
: On Sep 21, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Orin Hargraves wrote:

:: Wasn’t somebody collecting these things the other week?

: the Language Loggers (me included) have been collecting these
: "eggcorns" for months.

I am somewhat embarassed to admit that i've been puzzling away in silence
all this time, trying desparately to figure out why in the world these
things would be called "eggcorns", since "eggcorn" sounds nothing at all
like "acorn" to me.

I finally got it this morning--and this in the face of the fact that Jeanne
and i regularly argue over whose pronunciation of "egg" is correct, her [eg]
or my [Eg].

Does this mean i have to turn in my linguist badge?

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David Bowie                                         http://pmpkn.net/lx
    Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
    house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
    chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.