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by adamgordonbell 1339 days ago
TIL about eggcorns.

    a word or phrase that results from a mishearing or misinterpretation of another, an element of the original being substituted for one that sounds very similar or identical (e.g. tow the line instead of toe the line ).
I have a version of this all the time when writing but it doesn't match that definition. For me, it's more like my writing is transcribing an internal auditory dialogue and my inner voice might be saying 'their' but my transcriber will write 'there'. So, it's not that I don't know what's right ( or write ) but that it comes out wrong without active rereading.

Does anyone else have this?