"mixmash" eggcorn?

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Mon Jan 26 18:13:22 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> a comment by Netty on the Language Log posting "snarge"
>   http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1066
>
> Oh sorry, it is all in English. I don't divide the two languages
> sometimes. In our house it is a mixmash of English and German!
[snip]

Now in the ECDB:

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/1094/mixmash/


--Ben Zimmer

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