{"id":193,"date":"2008-02-18T09:11:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/02\/18\/eggcorns-peaces-and-adjacent-spaces\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:23:02","slug":"eggcorns-peaces-and-adjacent-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/02\/18\/eggcorns-peaces-and-adjacent-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggcorn peaces and adjacent spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, Michael Arrington<\/a> of TechCrunch<\/a> and Fred Wilson<\/a> of Union Square Ventures<\/a> got into a nerdfight <\/a>over the definition of “blogging” — fascinating! — but it generated a nice self-referential comment by Arrington. He said, in a comment to his own post, “anyway, agree its time to move on. I\u2019ve said my piece.” Then he commented on that comment by asking, “peace or piece<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker’s dialect. Characteristic of the eggcorn is that the new phrase makes sense on some level (“old-timer’s disease” for “Alzheimer’s disease”). Eggcorns often involve replacing an unfamiliar, archaic, or obscure word with a more common or modern word (“baited breath” for “bated breath”).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My own contributions (well, Sean<\/a>‘s contributions, actually):<\/p>\n