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#212572 - 09/22/13 11:43 AM Newly coined word
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Posts: 2 Several months ago, maybe last year, the word of the day's definition was similar to this: a word used by mistake which makes its own kind of sense. Example: The Government's Dept of repairs. What was the word? Please tell!
#212575 - 09/22/13 02:50 PM Re: Newly coined word [Re: Alibar]
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Posts: 13,803 Might you be thinking of an eggcorn?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
Coined by Mark Liberman in September 2003
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html
#212577 - 09/22/13 03:02 PM Re: Newly coined word [Re: Alibar]
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Posts: 2 Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you so much!
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