Eggcorn?? Deepseeded

[Dennis R. Preston]

While we are egg-corning, here's another example of "shoe-in" from
one of those pesky stock "offers" I get so frequently; this has
already been discussed on the Language Log I believe.

This one is shoe in to Double by end of week
Huge Volume spike, many people are already in the know

On another front, I don't now if this is non-native or telegraphic
style. For some reason the absence of "a" before "shoe-in" seems the
former but I'm happy with no "the" before "end" and "week" in the
latter. Is there a difference in the loss of definites and
indefinites in what we used to call telegraphic writing (and is
doubtless now extended to lots of text-messaging styles)?

dInIs


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>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?
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>   Margaret Lee
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