Gifted Typist

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.
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Pop quiz: What is an eggcorn? A misspelling? Or a word that defines the way our language evolves. Well, if you said both, you’d be right.
Eggcorn is indeed a mispelling of acorn, the thing that falls off a tree. Over the years, it has been misheard, mistaken and misspelled as eggcorn.
But is this so wrong? […]