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Your comment peaked my interest to read the HBR article you mentioned. Thanks. http://hbr.org/2010/07/the-big-idea-no-management-is-not-a-profession/ar/pr http:

• jdale27 16y ago
  No, it piqued your interest.
  • adamc 16y ago
    Is there a name for that phenomenon, where people hear terms in use but map them to the wrong words? Or the opposite, where people learn words through reading but mispronounce them?
    • singular 16y ago
      I submitted a Wikipedia article on this very subject :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477763 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1477763 Apologies in advance for engaging in the clichéd 'submit a Wikipedia page' pattern!
    • neall 16y ago
      malapropism
      • tesseract 16y ago
        or "eggcorn", if the substituted term makes some kind of sense in context.
    • raffi 16y ago
      Linguists call them real-word errors. They're very common in writing and spell checkers do nothing to protect against them. I work on a free browser extension called After the Deadline. It picks a lot of this stuff up. It didn't pick up this particular example, next time I deploy an update to our service it will. You may want to check it out, it works here on HN too: http://www.afterthedeadline.com http://www.afterthedeadline.com (as a note, I tend to make the same types of errors)
      • billswift 16y ago
        Actually I suspect that spelling checkers have made them more common. I know I see them a lot more often on the Web, and have been seeing them increasingly frequently over the last few years.
    • yyzfan 16y ago
      There are a few mild forms of dyxleia that cover thoses symptoms. For example, I cannot "sound out" words. I have to hear them before I say them. Makes for some funny times, thank god I have a great memory, or I'd look stupid all the time
    • stray 16y ago
      Malapropism.
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  • GBond 16y ago
    Thanks for core wrecking my miss take :p