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Eggcorns (Wikipedia / YouTube video by RobWords) are language mistakes that sometimes take over and change the spelling and perhaps even the meaning of a word. This is rare in German because there's fewer homophones but in this episode of Wort der Woche, DW explains how "munttot" became "mundtot". Available as audio or transcript.

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[โ€“] hakase@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All languages have eggcorns.

Yeah but I never knew one until today.

https://xkcd.com/1053/