Eggcorn: grandeloquent
Neal Whitman
nwhitman at AMERITECH.NET
Wed Jun 1 13:16:08 UTC 2011
On NPR this morning, Frank Daford said LeBron James had "grandEloquently" declared he was "taking [his] talents to Miami."
No entry in ECDB when I searched, but I do find it in a book of "Beastly Mispronunciations", and in several pages noting the error and giving the correct spelling.
Neal
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