Passing challenge to Simplyn2Deep

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Surprised the heck out of myself by writing just over 2,500 words - having a challenge day seems to work wonders for my work ethic! Another chapter on my WIP and feeling quite achieved!

Passing the torch to simplyn2deep and hoping your muse is kind to you x

Word of the Day 10/06/22 Eggcorn

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Eggcorn eggcorn [ eg-kawrn ]

a word or phrase that is a seemingly logical alteration of another word or phrase that sounds similar and has been misheard or misinterpreted, as 'old wise tale' for 'old wives' tale'.

Compare mondegreen. See also malapropism.

Origin: 2003, With reference to a mishearing or misinterpretation of the word acorn

Eggcorns … are a particular type of language error. Though incorrect, eggcorns are often more satisfying or poetic than the correct word or expression. If you didn't know how to spell the word "acorn," then "eggcorn" is a logical and satisfying alternative.
— New Scientist

Once described as a "slip of the ear," an eggcorn is the written expression of a plausible mishearing of a standard term. "For all intents and purposes," for example, is a set phrase—inherently redundant, perhaps, but it's the idiom. It gets misheard, though, as "for all intensive purposes," and sometimes appears that way in print. That's an eggcorn.
— Ruth Walker

This kind of phrase was named an "eggcorn" by Geoffrey Pullum, a linguist, in 2003, after that mishearing of "acorn". Many of them are quite logical, such as "wipe board" for "whiteboard", or "card shark" for "card sharp".
— The Independent (London)

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.