The Eggcorn Database is worth your wild

[Interrobang]

Check out the Eggcorn Database – you’ll be internally grateful. It’s the evolution of language in action.

In lame man terms, an eggcorn is a particular kind of misspelling, substituting the wrong words for a misheard phrase.

More specifically:

@Chris Waigl at The Eggcorn Database

Not every homophone substitution is an eggcorn. The crucial element is that the new form makes sense: for anyone except lexicographers or other people trained in etymology, more sense than the original form in many cases.

[ultrafilter]

Fascinating stuff. There goes my afternoon.

[twickster]

Very cool! I sent the link around to my colleagues here at the puzzle factory.