Dead-ringer Sentence Examples

It's not uncommon for someone who hears a word said out loud to confuse it with another word that sounds similar (or even identical) when spoken. When this happens, the result is what linguists would call an eggcorn. Someone hearing the word "acorn" for the first time could actually think the speaker is saying "eggcorn," so this term that has no other meaning has come to be used to describe this phenomenon.

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