Eggcorn?

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:47 AM -0700 3/10/09, Margaret Lee wrote:
>At a recent Phish concert here in Hampton, a Phish fan "Phish head")
>(female) was quoted in the local newspaper as saying, "It's
>comforting to know that I'm not the only one that wears mixmatch
>clothing and is into other things besides cell phones and
>bling-bling."  Is this use of "mixmatch" for "mismatch" an eggcorn?
>I don't know if this was her pronunciation or the reporter's
>spelling of the word.
>
>--Margaret Lee
>
Aha.  We recently discussed "mishmash", "mishmosh", et al., and this
makes it eminently clear that "mix ('n') match" is an ingredient in
the olla podrida.  I'm not sure "mismatch" is, but it could be.

LH

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