Hypercorrection in Facebook

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The eggcorn forum has an interesting thread with examples of:
“turn a deaf ear” >> “turn a death ear”
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2316

The discussion took place in 2007; however, it looks like a database
entry was not created.

There is also a thread on:
"tone deaf" >> "tone death"
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3975

Garson

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "turned a _death_ ear"
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> I neglected to mention that, IMO, this may be a fairly-recent problem. In
> my Texas childhood, "death" was [dEf], but "deaf" was [dif]. You didn't
> have to guess at the spelling.
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