The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Yes make sure your child becomes a social leopard and a complete idiot, because you have some unsubstantiated fear that they will go to hell. (Yahoo! Answers, Aug 2008 (approx.))
• People who have been adopted or are in foster care should not be treated as a social leopard. (Search Your Love online dating, article, Aug 29, 2007)

Spotted in the wild:

• One good system involves using standardized cards for different symptoms: fever, diarrhea, abdominal pains, conjunctivitis, cough, lower limp edema, dyspnea, hepatomegaly, cripitations heard during auscultation of the lungs, etc. (World Health Organziation: Medical Care for the Internally Displaced People in West Darfur State, (undated, ca 2004))
• My mother has extreme Limp edema in her legs and she is unable to walk. (Carepathways (Q&A section), January 9, 2003)
• Other clients with arthritis, allergies, limp edema, neuralgia and other symptoms have experienced relief and benefits with multiple treatments. (Innate Chiropractic (company web site), undated)

Spotted in the wild:

• I remember walking through Jerusalem with him as we absorbed the aromas of the streets, down the Via de la Rosa we went. (Search Light Ministries newsletter, 2004)
• Red roses did not line the Villa de la Rosa as Jesus walked the streets to Calvary; Hearts and balloons did not display a welcoming for this mighty King, He bore thorns of injustice, hate, and sin upon His brow. (Swampland.com)
• At Nazareth, Jesus was unable to do all that He would have wanted. And on that terrible and glorious day when He walked the Via De La Rosa, He cried out to a city that He wanted to Save, but “you would not have it”… (The Bible NETWork, Aug 23, 2006)
• For Palestinians of Jerusalem, getting a personal ID, which ought to be a simple affair, has become the new via de la Rosa. (Counterpunch, August 9, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• “Or, is there a hidden agenda that is only now beginning to reveal itself and reel its ugly head?” (Michnews.com via Reason Magazine, Jan. 20, 2004)
• Bradbury’s most popular novel still resonates today as anti-intellectualism once again reels its ugly head. (Vue Weekly, Feb. 24, 2005)
• As much as I want to disagree (guns-blazing, intellectual warfare imagery abounds), realpolitik reels its ugly head. (Ben Wyatt, Mar. 24, 2006)
• That social system that appeared to be encouraging in the beginning, reeled its head and became an area of destruction. (Gabriel Zeigler, Dec. 9, 2006)
• Desperation is reeling its ugly head. (CNN Political Ticker comment, May 22, 2008)
• ROMNEY’S INNER JACKASS REELS ITS HEAD AGAIN (TPM Cafe Reader Post, June 26, 2008)

Spotted in the wild:

• Practitioners may contest the notion of intergrading traditional practices and western practices (Student paper)