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by kbutler 1405 days ago
Eggcorn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

In linguistics, an eggcorn is an alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements,[1] creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context.