The Eggcorn Database already has skew for skewer, and the Eggcorn Forum has the reverse substitution, beginning with Ken Lakritz’s contribution from 2005, with the text: Ben Zimmer contributed the eggcorn ‘skew’ for ‘skewer’ to the database. This converse eggcorn is also fairly common. To skewer is to attack or mock, so when an opinion … Continue reading Data points: malapropisms 11/19/10