An eggcorn is the alteration of a phrase through the mishearing or reinterpretation of one or more of its elements, creating a new phrase having a different meaning from the original but which still makes sense and is plausible when used in the same context. The autological word "eggcorn" is itself an eggcorn, derived from acorn. Eggcorns often arise as people attempt to make sense of a stock phrase that uses a term unfamiliar to them, as for example replacing "Alzheimer's disease" with "old-timers' disease", or William Shakespeare's "to the manner born" with "to the manor born".
Cafe chalkboard advertising a "pre fixed" menu, an eggcorn of the French prix fixe (fixed price)
An expatriate is a person who temporarily resides outside their country of citizenship.
Expatriate French voters queue in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the first round of the presidential election of 2007.
Long among the complexities of living in foreign countries has been the management of finances, including the payment of taxes; here, a 32-page IRS publication from 1965 for Americans living abroad.