eggcorn

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"Run ramped" is a fabulous eggcorn -- "a kind of word creation due to a mishearing that a glance at the written form would normally have corrected."

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  • "Run ramped" is a fabulous eggcorn -- "a kind of word creation due to a mishearing that a glance at the written form would normally have corrected." —  Althouse
  • I suppose an eggcorn is one word, and more than one word is a mondegreen? —  MetaFilter
  • They say an eggcorn is slightly more creative than a malapropism. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Big Brother, created a classic eggcorn when she said on the show that she didn't want to be an "escape goat." —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • I'm just interested in this word-root "ramp" and its present-day manifestations "ramp up" and "rampant" and how they converged in that eggcorn. " —  Althouse
 

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