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The etymologies of card sharp and card shark don't actually support that claim. Some people have proposed that the newer phrase is an egg corn, a word that comes about when some one misshears how a word is supposed to be pronounced. In common use there is significant overlap between the two words. Note that card sharp is often written as one word, especially in american english and especially in modern times,. Card a is always written as two words. That sigment was written by brenda thomas, a free lance writer and online educator.