eggcorns, mondegreens, and re-analyses
Dec. 21st, 2004 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeEggcorn sighting: "Lo for I shall reign down on them with great wrath and furious anger." A rather-modified version of something inspired by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
blackwingedboy.
Mondegreen sighting: "In the winter we can build a snowman, until the alligators knock him down". Thanks tobeckyb for spotting this; I just found it elsewhere on Snopes, so it's a known mondegreen.
Also an interesting mis-analysis, spotted by JM in the department: "throw me the algene bottle!", presumably from an algene bottle, on analogy with the etymology of apron, which the OED says "In Eng., initial n has been lost by corruption of a napron to an apron." I love that the OED calls this "corruption".
blackwingedboy.Mondegreen sighting: "In the winter we can build a snowman, until the alligators knock him down". Thanks to
beckyb for spotting this; I just found it elsewhere on Snopes, so it's a known mondegreen.Also an interesting mis-analysis, spotted by JM in the department: "throw me the algene bottle!", presumably from an algene bottle, on analogy with the etymology of apron, which the OED says "In Eng., initial n has been lost by corruption of a napron to an apron." I love that the OED calls this "corruption".
