Eggcorns

This week I learned what an "eggcorn" is. The author of a book called, "How Not to Write Bad" expresses how words or phrases that are commonly misused can become something completely new in the english language. Eggcorn really hit home for me because when I was little that's exactly how I referred to an acorn. I even knew a dog named Acorn and called him Egg for short... Thankfully, that's when people [my mother] knew to correct my mispronunciation! Unfortunately, not everyone that uses "eggcorn" words and phrases realize they're wrong! And, unfortunately, they are not all four year old girls calling a dog, Egg. Instead, they are old men asking their grandchildren to "ducktape" a broken bumper.