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Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 5 months agoThis has been referred to as “bone apple teas” for many years, but “eggcorn” is a good single-word term for it.
Comment on This is just cruel
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 5 months agoThis has been referred to as “bone apple teas” for many years, but “eggcorn” is a good single-word term for it.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I’d say they’re different to bone apple tea because that’s a nonsense phrase whereas these could conceivably stand in for the original.
Eggcorn in particular has somewhat replaced acorn in a region of the US where those words sound the same, and the reason it’s not wrong is because it is a corn - a seed - and it does have an egg shape in it, so “eggcorn” is deacriptively accurate.