imparticular (eggcorn?)

[John M. Spartz]

I was just grading some student essays and ran across something I've never seen
before: "imparticular," as in "You may want to explain why you would want to
work for this *imparticular* corporation," where the meaning is cleary something
on the lines of "this corporation *in particular*."

I find the use of this "word" interesting, as it seems to function as an
adjective for this student (one of my better).  Would this be considered an eggcorn?

A quick Google search yields about 31,000 uses of this word.

Best,
John
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John M. Spartz
jspartz at purdue.edu
English Linguistics
Purdue University

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