Gathering Eggcorns

[Mark Mandel]

Are jou yoking?

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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> A yolking of eggcorns?  (Or a yoking, as the case may be.)
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> LH
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> At 6:41 PM -0400 6/27/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >A mighty oak-cretion of eggcorns...
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> >DanG
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> >On 6/27/2010 10:19 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> >>Can the learned members of this list improve upon "gathering" as the
> >>collective noun for "eggcorns"?  "A gleaning"? ...
> >>
> >>Joel
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> >>At 6/26/2010 07:19 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> >>
> >>>Merl Reagle's Sunday crossword puzzle this week is titled "Gathering
> >>>Eggcorns". He explains,
> >>>
> >>>      "Eggcorns" are things people say and write that are technically
> >>>incorrect but which have a logic of their own, such as "wheelbarrel."
> >>>
> >>>PDF at http://www.sundaycrosswords.com/ccpuz/GatheringEggcorns.pdf
> >>>Java version at http://www.sundaycrosswords.com/ccpuz/MPuz.php
> >>>
> >>>My wife (the dedicated crucigrammatist in the family) and I don't think
> that
> >>>some of these are exactly eggcorns (e.g., 50 Across), but what the hey.
> Have
> >>>fun!
> >>>
> >>>Mark Mandel
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