easedrop vs eavesdrop :

easedrop or eavesdrop

The area under the eaves right next to the front of a building used to be called the “eavesdrop,” and somebody listening in secretively from such a position came to be called an “eavesdropper.” Unfortunately, so few people distinctly pronounce the V in “eavesdrop” that many are misled into misspelling it “easedrop.”

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Definitions

  • v  listen without the speaker's knowledge
    the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations
News & Articles

  • How Britain spies on friends and rivals alike
    LONDON (AP) — Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing — in explicit detail — how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike. So what does GCHQ, Britain's eavesdropping agency, actually do? And how does it do it? And is any of this really all that surprising?
    June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Report of UK hacking of diplomats angers nations
    LONDON (AP) — A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa.
    June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Report of British hacking raises hackles abroad
    LONDON (AP) — A newspaper report that British eavesdropping agency GCHQ repeatedly hacked into foreign diplomats' phones and emails has prompted an angry response from traditional rival Russia and provoked demands for an investigation from Turkey and South Africa.
    June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News