Or hearing intelligent people-slash-talking heads using the words on TV but not knowing what the actual spelling is.
A bumper crop of "egg-corns," perhaps?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
A bumper crop of "egg-corns," perhaps?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll