"mixmash" eggcorn?

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> 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/

Also the subject of my latest Word Routes column:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1679/


--Ben Zimmer

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