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I've just been informed that I was quoted in The Language Log. A brief moment of fame, I suppose. What's weirder is that Francis Heaney is quoted as commenting on my quote, and I've done many puzzles by Francis Heaney in Games magazine over the years. So it's also a minor brush with fame. Wooooo.
Coincidentally, yesterday I discovered that I had made an eggcorn when posting an update to my notes on Jabber-RPC in Java for the Volity project: I wrote "free reign" when I meant "free rein". I might not have even noticed it was wrong if I hadn't just read about "reign" eggcorns. Of course when I read that I thought "I'd never make that mistake!" To be fair, though, I think "free rein" is much less obviously horse-related than "the reins of power". And "free reign" even sort of makes sense, as in a reign of freedom or something. But "free rein" does make more sense, and is in Merriam-Webster, so I'll stick with that.
The eggcorn that makes me the most igry, by the way, is "should of" in place of "should've". I'm wincing now just thinking about it.
Coincidentally, yesterday I discovered that I had made an eggcorn when posting an update to my notes on Jabber-RPC in Java for the Volity project: I wrote "free reign" when I meant "free rein". I might not have even noticed it was wrong if I hadn't just read about "reign" eggcorns. Of course when I read that I thought "I'd never make that mistake!" To be fair, though, I think "free rein" is much less obviously horse-related than "the reins of power". And "free reign" even sort of makes sense, as in a reign of freedom or something. But "free rein" does make more sense, and is in Merriam-Webster, so I'll stick with that.
The eggcorn that makes me the most igry, by the way, is "should of" in place of "should've". I'm wincing now just thinking about it.