Eggcorns (Wikipedia / YouTube video by RobWords) are language mistakes that sometimes take over and change the spelling and perhaps even the meaning of a word. This is rare in German because there’s fewer homophones but in this episode of Wort der Woche, DW explains how “munttot” became “mundtot”. Available as audio or transcript.
There’s mostly nerds on Lemmy and many don’t care how “meaningful” fun facts are. But if you know of some interesting phenomena, surely you can post about them!