Eggcorn?? Deepseeded

Thu Apr 26 11:02:58 UTC 2007

One of my students wrote the following about a character in a novel:  "His idealogies of the world are *deeply seeded* within him."  Is this use of "deepseeded" instead of "deepseated" an eggcorn?

  Margaret Lee

Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
Professor of English & Linguistics
Department of English
Hampton University
Hampton, VA 23668
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