from tiny eggcorns...

I read an interesting article in the Guardian magazine this weekend. It suggests that "eggcorn" is a common misnomer for "acorn" (that which an oak tree grows from). This is actually fairly logical - they are, after all, egg shaped, and large things (oak trees) grow out of them.

After a quick google/wikipedia/blogger search, I have found a number of interesting articles along the same vein, which, as a geeky linguist, appealed to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
http://crazybilly.blogspot.com/2006/05/language-log-on-egg-corns-and-more.html
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003098.html

And it leads me to wonder...what words do you use that you think are real words, but actually aren't?...