Are you justified?
Inspired by Dave Gorman, I decided to make a list of common eggcorns, including those I've actually encountered other people using in my daily life. What's an eggcorn, you may ask? An eggcorn is what happens when someone hears a phrase without ever seeing it written down, so when it comes time for them to write it down, they write it how they think it sounds, which is often different to what it actually is. The word itself comes from someone writing "acorn" as "eggcorn" - somehow they got through their whole life without ever seeing the word "acorn" written down. I'm going to split these into three categories - ones that people really need to stop using, ones that I can forgive people for still using (but not after learning the truth here), and ones that I actually find pretty funny. Eggcorns You Really Need to Stop Using "Paper view" for "pay-per-view". My ex girlfriend used to say this all the time, and even when I...