The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Beneath the balcony are shop windows — or are they doorways? or … the entrance to the never regions. (Venice Gondolier, Apr. 7, 2004)
• Rather worse for wear when I posted this topic originally, so duplicated it when I thought I had actually lost it somewhere in the never regions of my PC. (KVR Audio forum, Apr. 25, 2004)
• Mr Admin was detained in the never regions of the country and a mystery Southend Central bug wiped out some of the other potential attendees! (Southend Central forum, Dec. 17, 2004)

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 hadn’t realised the comic strips in the funny pages were so deep. I thought Hobbes was just a pigment of Calvin’s imagination. (link)
• Soul mates a pigment of the hyperactive imagination? (link)
• Darfur is not a pigment of a hedonists imagination-it exists and the worst affected are the children-the girls who regardless of age have been raped on countless occasions since the fighting began,the boys who have been forced to become soldiers and murderers,the babies that have died due to starvation. (link)
• This is all just a pigment of anyone’s imagination. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• The deals were badly done and badly managed. By summer of 2000 all those chickens came home to roast. (Franchising World, June 1, 2003)
• Strange that anyone in the US found it unacceptable to have a game where the player aims and shoots at the former US president. This is a typical “chickens coming home to roast” scenario. (Mail & Guardian Online forum, South Africa, Nov. 23, 2004)
• “Last year Britain’s economy was really very strong, but this year will be the year when the chickens come home to roast,” said Bootle. (The Telegraph, Jan. 16, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Although engineering school through him for a loop, van de Walle found that he excelled as a graphic artist. (Space.com, Mar. 11, 2004)
• “Who book?” means whose book and at first it through me for a loop, until I saw the kid holding a book. (Language Hat comment, Sep. 13, 2004)
• The first surgery back in 1984, however, through Bay for a loop for quite awhile, especially given the fact that he is an artist. (Main Street Newspapers, Nov. 24, 2004)