Can You Finish the Commonly Misheard Phrase?

If you thought the expression for someone who incites a mob to action was rebel-rouser instead of rabble-rouser, you’re not alone. Rebel-rouser is an eggcorn: a technically wrong term or phrase that actually makes sense. A rebel-rouser sounds like a person who rouses rebels, which rabble-rousers generally do (rabble just means “mob”). Eggcorn is an eggcorn, too, named by linguist Geoff Pullum in reference to people’s mistaking the word acorn for eggcorn.

We can’t give you any more examples because we saved the best ones for the quiz below. The rules are simple: Fill in the blank with the correct word, avoiding all the eggcorns.

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