Eggcorn??

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 7/19/06, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>     On the Dr. Phil show yesterday, a 22-year-old male said that his
> statement to his parents that "I did not ask to be born" was a "spurt of the
> moment statement," obviously a reinterpretation of "spur of the moment."
> Is this an eggcorn?

Yep, and it's already in the database:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/431/spurt/


--Ben Zimmer

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