http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001200.html Reader Maya Hermann emailed: ... I think I've found an eggcorn in the wild. Either that, or I've been unwittingly using an eggcorn for years. The word in question is the substitution of "white bred" for "white bread" to mean... en-us http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/blosxom.cgi/2004/07/13#981 The difference in sounds between "white-bread" and "White bred" are perhaps subtle, but not entirely missing.