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?...

Haiku

THE TRADITIONAL GRAMMARIAN AS POET

Haiku, you ku, he,
She, or it kus, we ku, you
Ku, they ku. Thang ku.

-Ted Hipple

As a linguist it amuses me!