Is Your Interest Peaked or Piqued?
A comment on my Facebook page recently stated that I had “perked the interest” of a reader. I can see …
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Eggcorns and Other Eggcorns
I posted recently about mondegreens — the mishearing or misunderstanding of song lyrics or poetry. Today I’d like to talk about a similar, and similarly entertaining, linguistic error. It’s called an eggcorn, a term coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum and Mark Lieberman in 2003.
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