The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Bumpy didn’t like it, but he was a soldier in the army of the Lord. The commander and chief had spoken, so all he could do was heed and obey. (Walter Mosley, Crimson Stain, in Six Easy Pieces, Washington Square Press, New York, 2003, p. 68)
• “We are going to be presenting a letter that deals with Kerry’s unfitness to be commander and chief that has been signed by hundreds of swift boat sailors, including most of those who served with Kerry,” O’Neill explained. (link)
• Why would a man who was running for the office of Commander and Chief of the US Armed Forces refuse to discuss his service in the military? (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• So we are going to work together as a team, both at the top and the ranking file of this subcommittee, if I have anything to do about it, and as subcommittee chairman I do have something to do about it. (House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce transcript, Feb. 15, 2001)
• They had to basically be approved by not only school committees but all the waivers had to be agreed to by labor management contracts and in some cases that meant that every alternative in a proposal would end up actually having to be voted on by the ranking file at a general assembly meeting. (Brown University, "The Future of Urban Schools" conference transcript, Feb. 15-16, 2001)
• Find ways to involve the ranking file faculty in the capital planning process and to find ways to have a forum for a reaction to propose plans and request prior to submission on each individual project. (North Carolina State University, Minutes of the Faculty Senate, Jan. 25, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• I guess with him being 130 pounds soak and wet he wouldn’t understand. (prevention.com forum, Jul 6, 2004)
• “Last month, my apartment was so hot that I sleep most of the time during the day because I’m sick,” said resident John Lemieux. “But I get up in the afternoon. I’m drenched soak and wet. My chair’s soak and wet. My bed’s soak and wet.” (NBC 10 News, August 4, 2005)
• So, there we were both soak and wet and I was pissed. (getgirls.com, dating tips, February 23, 2004)
• The bus driver said the word “shit” and all the soak and wet passengers had dropped jaws planted firmly on their faces. (link)
• I have a few of all of these at my gym, but what really chaps my a** is the petite “skinny” girls that come in “hawaiian” and very pretty,, but they can’t weigh 100lbs soak and freakin wet! (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• There was literally a human cry from around the state during the hearings held on this Issue in House H&SS Committee. (Mental Health Assoc. in Alaska, Bridges Final Report, 2000)
• This raised a human (?) cry in Boston and throughout the United States. (Kennedy Library, Race in the Military forum transcript, Nov. 12, 2001)
• The January 23 CyberAlert distributed earlier today quoted CNN’s Wolf Blitzer as declaring: “There’s been an international human cry and it continues over the condition of Afghan war detainees being held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.” CyberAlert reader Tom Johnson suggested to me that Blitzer probably said “hue and cry,” not “human cry.” (Media Research Center, CyberAlert Extra, Jan. 23, 2002)
• “Please join me in raising a human cry,” said Val J. Peter, executive director of Girls and Boys Town. (Associated Press, Nov. 15, 2002)

Spotted in the wild:

• The power of His mighty hand,
  Which saved my soul from Hell;
  Stands ready at my beacon call,
  My worries to dispel.
  (Poetry from the Psalms, 1994)
• God Who knows everything about us, is watching us, and crossing His arms, and shaking His head at our audacity at expecting Him to be at our beacon call whenever we want, while we just go our own little way, doing our own little thing, doing whatever we want, when we want. (FaithWriters.com, Mar. 19, 2004)
• Now that I am able to put my full concentration on EPI/PPT I am at your beacon call to answer questions, and assist you if you choose to join the best thing I have ever seen. (Money Talk forum, Nov. 4, 2004)