This link has been bookmarked by 217 people . It was first bookmarked on 10 May 2006, by adrienne travis.
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Angela Alexander"unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns" ie misspellings that are funny
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afraterThis site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns. Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log.
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kbeauchamp135Basically a dictionary for unusual/bizarre English words (eggcorns). Useful to students and teachers alike.
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tjohns22This is a database that offers insight into weird spellings of the English Language and how they can be used. This can be used in my classroom when in a primary source they used a old slang term that may be unusally to my students and can be found here possibly.
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joanne610This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns. Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log. The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.
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Melissa ReedThis site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns. Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log. The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.<br />The Eggcorn Database went public on February 15, 2005. It is a collaborative site in the sense that several contributors have access to it. In addition to me, the most active are the long-standing Language Log contributors Arnold Zwicky and Ben Zimmer. The Eggcorn Database has a forum now, with its own space for your contributions and submissions. Feel free to register and join in.
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Carol FurchnerEggcorn - using other words that sound similar but are incorrect: After all is set and done, this leaves me unphased.
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Leon KehoeDevoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns. For example, "on tender hooks", when it should be "on tenterhooks".
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Dan GoodmanAn eggcorn is what an oak grows from. "Given free reign to your creativity, or, on the contrary, towed the line? Check out what the man has to say whose refrigerator has given up the goat, so brilliantly retold by Jeanette Winterson in the (London) Time
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Janne JanneThis site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include free reign (instead of free rein) or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expres
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Greg LloydThis site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns. Eggcorn, the word, is a coinage that goes back to the excellent Language Log. The About page retraces the history of the term and offers more information on how this site came to be.
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David DruckerThis site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.
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Inept shieldmaidstrait-laced > straight-laced
free rein > free reign
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Judy BuhagiarThis site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns
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Paul HenmanThis site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.
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fwy leungContinually updated guide to modern-day Malapropisms, misunderstandings and other manglings of language. From 'high dungeon' to 'wreckless driving', Eggcorn names the culprits and nudges them in the right direction.
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