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by wickedwillie on January 24th, 2005

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In linguistics, what is an "eggcorn"?

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  • by wickedwillie on January 26th, 2005

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    Eggcorn is a linguistics term that refers to a language error in which a person fallaciously replaces a word or phrase with a word or words that sound identical, at least in the dialect the person uses.

    example: "Inner g" instead of "energy" etc.

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