Yes! Eggcorns is by far the superior term for “alteration of a word or phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context.”

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What's the origin of the term eggcorn? A brief scan of the link didn't answer this for me. Is eggcorn itself an eggcorn?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It is!

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What is it an eggcorn of? Acorn? And what's the origin?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, acorn.

This linguistics blog post is the origin: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Oh awesome and very interesting thank you!

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Boneappletea is also an excellent term for a similar thing, where the "new" word or phrase makes no sense and is not plausible when used in the same context.

There will certainly be reasonable disagreements about which description is more apt in a given situation. One that comes to mind is Joey Tribbiani's use and explanation of "a moo point."

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I’m just partial to eggcorn (term and concept).