eggcorn: "raise cackles"

[Laurence Horn]

And the next step is to process these "cackles" as an all-purpose
emotive response gauge.  We can already attest "warm the cackles (of
one's heart)":

Now all those features, plus numerous others I don't have the space
to mention, would by themselves be enough to warm the cackles of my
heart.

Things like that warm the cackles of my heart, they tell me that we
CAN all get along together, especially if we work towards a common
goal.

Who said children aren't doing anything positive? We've told you
previously about the  St. James Parish trip down south to aid in the
Hurricane Katrina disaster. Now, another story to warm the cackles of
your heart

May this year's festivities warm the cackles of your hearts with the
holiday spirit.

LH

At 12:25 PM -0400 6/4/09, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>  >From a comment left on the NYT blog "The Lede":
>
>http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/students-respond-to-obama/?apage=6#comments
>"Since Islam never went through the equivalent of a Reformation and
>Counter-Reformation to hash out matters, little progress can be seen
>beyond these execrable comments that raise no cackles at all at the NY
>Times."
>
>"Raise cackles" would seem to be an eggcornization of "raise hackles."
>Other exx below, with varying degrees of eggcornosity:
>
>---
>http://wayneyang.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/james-whitlow-delano-interview/
>Such a title might raise a few cackles, a Yank talking about the
>growing pains of another country, particularly an ancient one.
>---
>http://current.com/items/89887216_the-obama-deception.htm
>I do it with humor, and sometimes I do it for no other reason to raise
>some cackles....like throwing steak to a rottweiler.
>---
>http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/455469
>Granted, I'm a hot food freak, but Inner Beauty sauce just doesn't
>raise my cackles.
>---
>http://www.jossip.com/the-dead-monkey-cartoon-isnt-racist-20090219/
>It is ambiguous enough and potentially offensive enough to as to raise
>the cackles on any good editor, and should never have been published.
>---
>http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/01/us-in-massive-arms-resupply-to-israel.html
>This shipment also will raise the cackles of "peace" groups, like the
>columnist who compared Israel to Auschwitz prison guards.
>---
>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/06/11/plane-collides-with-ufo-literally/#comment-67
>There was a time I had a sense of humor about that sort of thing, and
>I guess I still do to a point, but damn my eyes, even off-handed
>pseudoscience is starting to raise my cackles!
>---
>http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/2005/01/28/trailer-park-happy-birthday-to-me/
>It's about Deep Throat so you can be sure it's, at the very least,
>going to raise some cackles in the hearts of bible belters somewhere
>in this great land.
>---
>http://www.uptownupdate.com/2008/07/community-meeting-about-public-safety.html#comment-3731794661741244457
>Finally, it's bad form to assume that bringing up a candidate into an
>open forum won't raise the cackles of others.
>---
>
>
>--Ben Zimmer
>
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