Eggcorn?

[Michael Quinion]

A subscriber has e-mailed me thus: "I am a college instructor, and
the other day I was grading papers when I came across this: 'In the
early 1960s, rock and roll was spreading like wildflowers.' I found
it oddly apt and a little poetic, if totally wrong."

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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
E-mail: <wordseditor at worldwidewords.org>
Web: <http://www.worldwidewords.org/>