"mixmash" eggcorn?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> At 1/26/2009 02:28 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> >Influence from the Yinglish pronunciation might also reveal itself in the
> >spelling _mixmosh_ -- though in that case we wouldn't want to discount
> >influence from the slam-dancing sense of _mosh_, surely of more salience in
> >contemporary musical contexts
>
> And the "mix" of contemporary music contexts?

Yes, as I suggest in the ECDB entry ("mix-master", etc.).

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


--Ben Zimmer

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