Eggcorns #2- a deep-seeded problem
Cats: eggcorns|Here is another crop of eggcorns from the Eggcorn Database. Remember the eggcorn from a previous post? They are the fun little mistakes that actually work. In fact some like “deep seeded” work so well, they should be a straight replacement for the correct term “deep seated” which is more obscure in meaning.
deep seeded for deep seated - Iesa Galloway, Houston Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said the questionnaire was “rooted in deep-seeded ignorance of the religion of Islam and the Muslim people.” (Fox News, January 19, 2005)
defunked for defunct - On Saturday Eden will be having a tribute to the recently defunked club Soundgarden. (Taipei Times, Aug 26, 2005)
day in age for day and age - We’re in the day in age when you’re looking at the radio stations playing a lot of hard rock, rap and bubble gum pop music.
dilute for delude - “No, it comes from plain, simple spite. Spite, caused by people who think the average Mac user is some sad, diluted fool who doesn’t “know any better”. (Capitalist Lion, June 24, 2003)”
crutch for crux - The crutch of the matter is to abstract the real world problem to the point where we have all possible states of all variables in the equation.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Oh ouch - the dilutional Mac user!
April 28th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Although I suspect that Crux and Crutch are probably OK, as they are linked thru Crotch (of a tree) which served as the ‘Crutch”, all ultimately derived from Crux (which is basically the crotch of the matter)
April 28th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
you said it, Mac user, deluuuuusional, that’s the crux/crutch/crotch of the matter.
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:57 am
You sure nipped that one in the butt.
You sure nipped that one in the bud.
Translation:
You sure nipped that one in the gluteus maximus.
You sure nipped that one in the apical meristem.