Hope you are fairing well today, Wednesday, February 09, 2022. I am good, staying busy with writing and homeschooling my grandkids. My oldest grandchild will be celebrating her birthday this coming Saturday. I love seeing her age but really miss her young years before. She is my sweety pie.
My Clover! My first grandchild.
I just wanted to ask how everyone was doing and I hope you all are good. I also want to wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day ahead, because you need to know that each of you matters, each of you is special, and there is no one exactly like you in this world. Please go out into this sometimes cruel and mean world and spread happiness and joy and love.
In other news, lol, I am just thankful for all who comment, like, and share my page. Please continue to do so. I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart.
I have a few links on this post, they are to vote, and you can daily, for my furbabies.Thank you in advance. You have to have a Facebook account to do so.
Eggcorn “a seemingly logical alteration of a misheard word or phrase” is a coinage by linguistics professor Geoffrey K. Pullum based on the word acorn. The logic here is that people unfamiliar with the term acorn (from Old English æcern) may mistake the word as a compound of egg and corn because of acorns’ size and shape. An eggcorn is a type of folk etymology based on an honest mistake, as we saw in the etymology for the recent Word of the Day armscye, which is often incorrectly believed to come from “arm’s eye,” after the location and shape of an armscye. What makes something an eggcorn is that, unlike folk etymology proper, which results in a change to a word or phrase based on a nearly universal misconception, eggcorns tend to reflect common mistakes at the individual level—no matter how widespread these mistakes may be—that do not change the spelling of the mistaken word or phrase. Also important is that eggcorns are based on logical misunderstandings, so not every gross misspelling on the average social media feed qualifies as an eggcorn. While eggcorn is attested as early as the early 19th century, its present sense dates from 2003.
HOW IS EGGCORN USED?
Whether step foot in is, or originally was, an eggcorn has been hotly but inconclusively debated. However, no one argues that set foot in is anything other than standard English. So step foot in is one of those phrases that we’re probably better off not using even though there’s little reason to object if others use them.
BARBARA WALLRAFF, “WORD COURT,” THE ATLANTIC, SEPTEMBER 2006
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wrote …. “the Congress we’re about to get will be its [predecessor’s] spit and image: familiar faces, timeworn histrionics, unending paralysis.” Spit and image? …. Did Bruni just drop an eggcorn in America’s journal of record? …. As Language Log points out, he didn’t drop (lay?) an eggcorn at all. In fact, “spit and image” is the older version of the expression. Both may be alterations of an earlier form, “spitten image.”
DAVID SHARIATMADARI, “THAT EGGCORN MOMENT,” THE GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Sugar is not only found in desserts but also in many ready-made meals and drinks. And while we can’t argue with the fact that sugar makes a lot of things taste better, consuming too much of it can endanger our health. Here are the most common physical signs of excessive sugar consumption and tips on how you can cut back or avoid it.
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