The word eggcorn was coined in 2003 on Language Log, an online linguistics forum. Over the next several years, an intense search by language amateurs and professionals turned up thousands of candidate eggcorns. The popularity of the term continued to spread and in 2010 the term "eggcorn" made it into a major dictionary. Each year numerous articles dedicated to this neologism continue to appear in major magazines and newspapers.Eggcorns, says the author,...
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