During my master’s degree, I worked on projects related to things like malaprops (aka malapropisms), eggcorns, mondegreens, folk etymologies, homophones (especially ones that are homophonous in some dialects but not others), and more. I’m curious about how these things are perceived, produced, and propagated. These are huge questions and it’s not every day that you get to unite historical linguistics, dialectology, and psycholinguistics. While it’s been on the back burner for a little bit, I’m still very curious about these phenomena and how they relate to cognition.

If you’ve observed a use of language that isn’t what would be considered “standard” in your dialect, please share below!

A fun collection of these types of things can be found here.