eggcorn

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On May 15, 2005, at 1:53 AM, Rex W. Stocklin inventoried a big pile
of errors:

> The boobs that are passed off as schooled, well-spoken news anchors,
> with eggcorn (or worse) on their faces:
>
>  - The assessable parking ramp was blocked...
>  - ...for all intensive purposes...
>  - The councilman gleamed some knew perspective...
>  - The church leadership prayed and led to their upmost.
>  - Citizens, get thee to the liberry! (N.B. - a pervertedly ironic
> attempt at being cerebral)
>  - It was done, all in good conscious.
>  - ...in his own inhibitable style.
>  - ...peanuts, caramel and a delicious chewy nugget in the center.
>  - The thing is, messy political scoundrels upset people a great
> deal. (N.B. - very funny, but...)
>  - She had a brain tumor she feared was malicious. (N.B. - ditto)
>  - The printers blowed up the picture eight times larger than life-
> size.
>  - But her decision making was beyond approach (N.B. - well, I
> guess...)
>  - ...above the pale.
>  - The latest complaint du jour is GERD, gastroesophageal reflex
> disease (N.B. - points for the BIG words)
>  - Signed, respectively yours, the station management.
>  - The new owner's a world-class restauranteur...
>  - Pregame commentators made a good assertation...
>  - Because of her DNR, NO heroic measurements were taken.
>  - The ill-fated car bounded acrossed the medium... (note: I don't
> take issue with "acrossed", an infamous regional slurring)
>  - (N.B. - I swear this is as real as all these others) Younger
> sports fans don't know buttkiss...

this is a really heterogeneous collection, with non-standard
variants, common misspellings, nonce misspellings, malapropisms of
several kinds, etc.

but in there are at least two possible eggcorns: "chewy nugget" and
"don't know buttkiss".

arnold