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Rebecca Blood has posted an interview with Jason Kottke of kottke.org. Good stuff. Her whole Bloggers on Blogging series has been quite a treat.

–Eggcorns are those phrases that “arise when a writer knows an expression well enough to employ it in an appropriate context, but is mistaken about the term’s or its constituents’ meanings, origins or the underlying metaphors”–intuitive mistakes like “free reign” or “ten-year track position”.

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