My favorite eggcorn, which I've never heard anywhere else, was from a
person who used to be in our marketing department. To say we needed to
stay in communication regarding an issue, she said we need to be on a
"touch basis". Now, I've often heard people say we need to "touch base"
to mean we need to communicate periodically, which actually is a
corruption of "touch all the bases", which you need to do to score a
home run in baseball. But, this was the only person who wanted to be on
a "touch basis". Since I was married, I had to pass the opportunity up.
Richard Yates wrote:
Several of my eggcorn sitings (I almost typed "citings"!)
are listed in the database after having been reported to Arnold or
Chris.
um, perhaps, "sightings"?
I submitted "voiceterous" a while ago.
RY
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