The dictionary has added a new word: “eggcorn.” Read what it means after the jump. And then supply eggcorns of your own.
From ‘Eggcorns’: The Gaffes That Spread Like Wildflowers : The Two-Way : NPR:
Please pause if you’re about to tell us our headline should say “spread like wildfire.”
We intentionally slipped an eggcorn into that line — something we couldn’t have done a week ago because, frankly, we’d never heard of eggcorns.
But thanks to Merriam-Webster, which included eggcorn among the more than 1,700 words added to its dictionary this past week, we learned that it is:
“A word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase.”