The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

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)

Spotted in the wild:

• Sunny, the level-headed one of the four, agrees to do the show for a lack of anything else to do, at first using it to buy her time while she finds a real job. (The Celebrity Café, book review, Mar 25, 2004)
• I’m just buying my time until I have to go get ready for work right now. (link)
• This car is the biggest piece of unreliabile junk I’ve ever seen. I’m just buying my time until I can get another car. (alt.autos.dodge, Dec 8, 2000)
• I will just keep doing the best I can, and buy my time until we can open up our own damn store. (link)
• She was a Data Angel. And that meant she was an expert on lurking in the shadows, buying her time until she could make her move. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• The famous Nick Cohen of the Observer (pro-war apologist) has launched a virile attack against all us good people in one fowl swoop! (Indymedia UK - All mouth and no brains!)
• If you don’t like musicals, then this is for you too, as you can get them all out of the way in one fowl swoop. (Ballet.co 2002 Edinburgh Festival Report)
• This is not to say that Apple’s run perfectly all the time. It just means that they are less prone to lose all of your data in one fowl swoop like with PCs. (Useless Knowledge Mag - Shoulda Bought An Apple)