Eggcorns?

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Aug 11, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Speech:  Shellular phone

hard to know what to make of this: just palatalization before front
vowels?  the (few) google webhits are all for jokes: what kind of
phone does a turtle/crab use?  a shellular phone!

meanwhile, there are actual shell phones -- phones in the shape of
shells, phones at Shell gas stations, etc.

> Print     :  Colored-coded

now *this* one looks serious: ca. 5,460 raw webhits for "colored(-)
coded", all of which look like adjectives in parallel, either
morphologically (copulative compounding) or syntactically, so meaning
'both 'colored' and 'coded', rather than 'coded by color'.

arnold