The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• There’s no issue of taxes here, the city has a winfall of revenue. (link)
• What may seem like a winfall to the employee of having an extra $50 in their paycheck every payday, puts not only the employee but the company at risk. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• On Saturday Eden will be having a tribute to the recently defunked club Soundgarden. (Taipei Times, Aug 26, 2005)
• And please let me thank you for your efforts in your hatemongering Bush Bashing for your defunked party of fanatical leftists. (alt.books.tom-clancy, Sep 8, 2005)
• I suspect that you take DEC being defunked much more personally than I do. (alt.folklore.computers, Sep 12, 2005)
• The relationship between Eric and James went defunk. (link)
• Timo Ellis and Sean Lennon were featured guests on Butter 08’s self titled release on the now defunked Beastie Boy’s Grand Royal Records. (link)
• I think TRL is now defunk. Defunked by the accountants (the new COO’s and CEO’s) who read a balance sheet and only see a cost and have no imagination of the potential gain. (BritishExpats.com forum, Sep 1, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• Instead of seeing such criticism as an attack against which your assessment efforts must be defended, consider it an opportunity to build a campus culture of assessment. Instead of fighting the critic, try to co-op him or her. (Start Simple: The Value of Simple Assessment Techniques, Bradley E. Cox & E. Rob Stirton May 18, 2005)
• If you want to try co-oping them into islam, then bring to their attention the merits of what once was a beautiful and peaceful religious philosopy, and that today has become transformed into ugly gangs of murderers parading Jewish body parts around Gaza and howling like mad wolves for the blood of the Jews after some ignorant imam stirs them up at Friday prayers. (Deans's World, comment, May 13, 2004)
• Part of the extreme challenge of leadership (especially in volunteer organizations) is dealing effectively with the ‘difficult people’ in the organization. John blithely suggests to either ‘co-op’ them, replace them, or get them to quit. (Amazon.com, customer review, September 8, 2005)
• In other words, Mithra was the latest and greatest in a long line of ever greater gods based on the then current understanding of the physical universe. It is easy to see how the christians of that time co-oped him to be a part of their mythos just as they presently presume the observations of evolutionary science support their superstitious nonsense and in centuries past stole all the good religious stories such as the life of Buddha to be saints of their own misrepresentation. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• A customer stated that he saw the bustboy pick up my camera. When I spoke to the manager I was giving the runaround stating that his employees do not steal. (Yahoo! Travel, June 14, 2005)
• He and the manager were too busy busting tables and not concerned with the temperature of the food and quality coming out of the kitchen! (travelchannel.com, restaurant review)
• If I don’t go this very instant, the guy busting tables will have more to clean-up than what’s in his job description. (link)
• I imagine that many hired hands perform very simple, very basic functions (the integrity that is Capitalism) from everything from busting tables to handing out free candy samples to obnoxious children from consumerist parents. (punkerslut.com, December 17, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Many claim that this riff between the party grassroots and the DC Democrats is a fundamental identity crisis. (countercurrents.org, 24 August, 2005)
• But, look, Andrea, my greatest concern is this gigantic riff between the rhetoric we hear from the administration and the reality on the ground and it’s causing the American people to abandon what is an essential fight we have. (MSNBC, Interview with Sen. Joe Biden, Aug. 17, 2005)
• But despite their intelligence and wisdom, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would spend much of their later lives hating each other. It took the pen of Abigail Adams to soften the pain and begin a dialogue with Jefferson that would eventually mend the riff between these two great men. (myhero.com)
• Hey, this may seem a little bit of a lame question..lol. But why is there such a riff between ‘metal’ and ‘punk’ (Idiotpilot.com forum, Jul 26, 2005)
• It’s just possible that the riff between Snape and Sirius started out as a “boy’s will be boy’s” scenario until Sirius sent Snape in after Remus and then it turned into a real hatred. (Harry Potter Fan Zone forum, Apr 17, 2005)