# The Eggcorn Database is worth your wild

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eggcorn-database-is-worth-your-wild/339719>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 12, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eggcorn-database-is-worth-your-wild/339719 "2006-01-12T22:02:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eggcorn-database-is-worth-your-wild/339719/1 "2006-01-12T22:02:41Z")

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Check out the [Eggcorn Database](http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/) – you’ll be [internally grateful](http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/75/internally/). It’s the evolution of language in action.

In [lame man terms](http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/111/lame-man/), an eggcorn is a particular kind of misspelling, substituting the wrong words for a misheard phrase.

More specifically:

> [@Chris Waigl at The Eggcorn Database](#):
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eggcorn-database-is-worth-your-wild/339719/2 "2006-01-12T22:09:05Z")

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Fascinating stuff. There goes my afternoon.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-eggcorn-database-is-worth-your-wild/339719/3 "2006-01-12T22:18:58Z")

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