"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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