Eggcorn?? Deepseeded

[Benjamin Zimmer]

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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