In this post, I finish the discussion of eggcorns on Twitter that I began yesterday by presenting the results of the second half of my eggcorn list (P-Z) being run on the Twitter collection (for an introduction to eggcorns, see here). As in the previous investigation, there are several eggcorns that only appear once in this collection of tweets, as shown in the figure below:

Twofers are not as common as they were in the first analysis, with only three of the eggcorns investigated here being used twice: paper view for pay-per-view, as in the tweet "They should paper view this"; walk down the isle for walk down the aisle, as in "I would walk down the isle"; and wreckless for reckless, as in "for talking wreckless".

More frequently occurring eggcorns in the collection are the following:

• sing-a-long for sing-along (3 times), as in "First Christmas sing-a-long!"
• party hardy for party hearty (5 times), as in "you know me: party hardy!"
• posed to for supposed to (8 times), as in "you posed to be sleep"
• vocal chords for vocal cords (9 times), as in "GIRAFFES DON'T HAVE VOCAL CHORDS!!!!"

Finally, we revisit the issue of could of for could've/could have to take into account similar issues pertaining to the related modal verbs should of for should've/should have and would of for would've/would have, the distribution of which, in terms of raw numbers, are illustrated in the chart below:

And finally, a presentation of these variant by percentage shows an interesting similarity in the patterning for all three modals.

This will be our last look at eggcorns until we return to their use in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies in a future post. Tomorrow, we will look at terms for unlicensed liquor in the American West and beyond.