spotted in the wild...

[Erik Hoover]

I'm no prescriptivist, but I'm thinking that you mean homophone when
describing the similarities of 'seated' and 'seeded', rather than
homonym.

On May 8, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> ...but not a new item for the bestiary; there's a nice treatment in
> the eggcorn database.
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> In a student paper I just read, a reference is made to "deep-seeded
> racism".
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> As the discussion at
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/index.php?s=seeded&submit=Search points
> out, the eggcorn actually is more transparent in this case than the
> original source "deep-seated" is, and of course the two are homonyms
> in most varieties of U.S. English.
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> Larry
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