“…6 So, for want of a better term, "eggcorn" was accepted and has stuck. In a later Language Log, 7 Liberman suggested that words that were becoming recognised as eggcorns had not only phonological similarity to their correct counterparts, but also semantic connections. For example, as he wrote, "[the word] 'corn' is sort of like 'seed,' and the seed part of an acorn looks sort of like an egg."…”