Communication can be impeded by words and phrases that sound alike. Here's how.
They are the result of how our minds make sense of what we hear.Sometimes it's the language that's at fault“Pass mustard.” “Taken for granite.” “Flaw in the ointment.” If any of these phrases have popped up in an email or a text that you’ve received, you may have thought that the sender’s autocorrect function was to blame. Clearly, what was meant was “pass muster,” “taken for granted,” or “fly in the ointment.” Right? Maybe, but maybe not.
in 2003. Eggcorns can be thought of as mishearings or “slips of the ear.” And in many cases, they make more sense than the original phrases themselves.Consider the eggcorn “anchors away.” Most people have probably only heard the phrase “anchors aweigh” in the U.S. Naval Academy’s. The word “aweigh,” meaning to raise something, like a ship’s anchor, has been part of the vocabulary of English for over four hundred years.
English, like most languages, has a large number of homophones: two or more words that are pronounced the same, like “away” and “aweigh.” There are also many near homophones, such as “muster” and “mustard,” or “duct” and duck.” It’s easy to mishear one for the other, particularly when the correct form is unusual or illogical.A good example is the eggcorn “doggy-dog,” as in the expression “doggy-dog world.
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