Eggcorn of the week

Line from an online apartment listing: "These apartments are diamonds in a ruff!"

Which is kind of a wonderful image. I bet you’d need a lot of starch in your ruff to get the diamonds to stay in there…

(What’s an eggcorn? Here’s a definition.)

One Response to “Eggcorn of the week”

  1. Peter says:

    How interesting that a blog (Language Log) coined the phrase “eggcorn.”
    As for the apartment, I figured they allowed dogs.