[Vlaix]

As a rule of thumb, English is choke-full of Anglo-Saxon/French redundancies that rarely come to light due to a register separation. Anglo-Saxon etymons tend to the lower registers of language, French (along with Latin, although the line between a word that came from French or straight from Latin can be very blurred, and Greek) ones to the higher.

[bane]

This generalizes and is reinforced even more into words of Germanic origin being automatically considered lower register, while Latin and Greek words being assumed to be higher.

e.g. valediction instead of farewell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_and_Latinate_...

[thaumasiotes]

Not a great example; "farewell" is so archaic that it won't be understood as low register. It will be understood as purposefully fancy.

[gohrt]

chock ;-)

[jessaustin]

Which is the eggcorn? "Chock" seems more idiomatic, but now that I think about it, I'm really not sure.

[josephlord]

On this thread that gets a upvote!

[MaysonL]

Shouldn't that be a nupvote? ;-]