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Have you ever heard of an eggcorn? An eggcorn is a linguistical error where a expression is reshaped to makes sense, when the speaker doesn't understand the original saying. Sometimes this is because the term is archaic or unfamiliar, such as in "a mute point" rather than the correct "moot point." Sometimes, as in the term itself, the spelling is simply unknown to the speaker.
Here's a list. It's full of many commonly used errors. Ones that I see a lot of (even in the newspapers). Like phase/faze, peak/pique, pour over/pore over and rack/wrack (oops, that one's not listed).
But here's one I didn't know was incorrect. "pawn off on," rather than "palm off on".
Here's a list. It's full of many commonly used errors. Ones that I see a lot of (even in the newspapers). Like phase/faze, peak/pique, pour over/pore over and rack/wrack (oops, that one's not listed).
But here's one I didn't know was incorrect. "pawn off on," rather than "palm off on".
