Eggcorn?? Deepseeded
Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Thu Apr 26 13:03:51 UTC 2007
On 4/26/07, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
This was one of the earliest entries in the Eggcorn Database:
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/46/seed/
See also this Language Log post:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001815.html
--Ben Zimmer
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