In the fable, a committee investigates linguistic corruption in "the Brett language," wishing to eradicate four particular offensive words.

Rarely has a linguistic corruption stunk so excrementally of willful hayseediness.

This infuriates the specialists, who see it not merely as a form of linguistic corruption but also as highway robbery from their vocabulary.

The relics were placed in the suburban church of Santa Passera (a linguistic corruption of "Abbas Cyrus") on the Via Portuense.

The game later also became known as "blind man's bluff"; it is possible that this name is a linguistic corruption.

There was originally a Roman villa located here, and the German suffix, "weiler", is a linguistic corruption of the Latin term "villa".

Historically, the name "Arcot" is said to be derived from a linguistic corruption of the original Tamil word "Aaru Kaadu", meaning "Six Forests".

"Nuthatch" is a linguistic corruption of "nuthack", referring to the bird's habit of wedging nuts into cracks in tree bark and hacking at them until they break open.

However, by linguistic corruption, the name of the martyr Ambor (Nabor) became confused with that of the more famous bishop Saint Ambrose (San Ambrosio).

A linguistic corruption of ikou (to rest).