eggcorns and other homophones

[cimorene]

• along a corridor and up a flight of stares




• had segwayed onto a different topic

[This is a fairly common one, but I still laugh every time.]



• murdered by a hoard




• "I. Am. Gay." He annunciated.

[Ugh, I was saving this one for like SIX MONTHS to post on Ascension Day and I just forgot about it by less than a week. So rude.]



• could smell something unimaginably fowl from inside




• in the throws of passion

Comments

[anatsuno]

Funnily, I saw the reverse segue/segway mistake last week in a fic, where it WAS about the vehicule (is it a vehicule?) but the writer used the "people segued" wording instead and I had to reread the sentence three times before I got it. (I AM certain that's what it was, though, the context made it, eventually, obvious) First time I see that!

[cimorene]

Wow, that IS memorable! A sort of eggcorn unicorn.