Eggcorn?

[Wilson Gray]

How do you distinguish a mere misspelling from a genuine eggcorn? The
eggcorn site has examples that appear to consist of mere misspellings of
"cacciatore" that seem to be neutral with respect to semantics. However, I
once came across a joke a part of whose punch line was "... chicken catch a
Tory."

-Wil

On 3/2/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> >On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> >>>From ZDNet:
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> >>"You don't have to be an expert to see the _wholes_ in that logic!"
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> >i don't see how this improves the semantics of the expression in any
> >way.  just a misspelling?
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> >(Brians's Common Errors has an entry for hole/whole, which notes that
> >they have almost opposite meanings.)
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> ah yes, but consider "holistic"/"wholistic"
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