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- An idiosyncratic but semantically motivated substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound identical, or nearly so, at least in the dialect the speaker uses.
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I suppose an eggcorn is one word, and more than one word is a mondegreen?
They say an eggcorn is slightly more creative than a malapropism.
If you look up eggcorn, you'll find it isn't there.
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