eggcorns, mondegreens, and re-analyses

[trochee]

Eggcorn sighting: "Lo for I shall reign down on them with great wrath and furious anger." A rather-modified version of something inspired by 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".

Comments

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

Or my favorite, "nickname" from "an ickname" (German ich name

[q-pheevr.livejournal.com]

I thought it was an ekename?

[ex-caracola454.livejournal.com]

That might be so -- I learned it phonetically and was told it came from "I name", so I assumed the spelling was the same as "I" in German (ich).
In any case, /ik/!

[trochee.livejournal.com]

and, rereading my own post, we might expect to see "nanalogy" if that word gets popular enough. ("it's a nanalogy to Sartre's No Exit.")

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dkg_/]

Your proposed corruption couldn't possibly happen, since nanalogy is already a well-used term describing the study of grandmothers.