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Geoffrey Pullum, who came up with the term "eggcorn", also came up with "snowclone" [0]. He has had a lot of very interesting posts on Language Log [1]. [0] ht
by eindiran 6y ago
Geoffrey Pullum, who came up with the term "eggcorn", also came up with "snowclone" [0]. He has had a lot of very interesting posts on Language Log [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
[1] http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/langlog-posts.html http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/langlog-posts.html
- m0xte 6y agoLanguage Log is brilliant. Perfect morning reading with my coffee. “Orca emits speech-like sound; reporters go insane“ says more about our culture and media than anything I’ve read for years. Thanks for posting the link.