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semantically

English

Etymology

semantic +? -ally

Adverb

semantically (comparative more semantically, superlative most semantically)

In the manner of or referring to semantics.

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amnestically

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eggcorn

English

Etymology

Suggested by British-American linguist Geoffrey K. Pullum (born 1945) following a discussion on the Language Log website on September 23, 2003 by American linguist Mark Liberman about a woman who had long believed the word acorn to be egg corn.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k??n/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /???k??n/
Hyphenation: egg?corn

Noun

eggcorn (plural eggcorns)

(linguistics) An idiosyncratic but semantically motivated substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound identical, or nearly so, at least in the dialect the speaker uses. [from 2003]

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semantically

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eggcorn

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