The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• The logic game involves moving Barbie around a group of baby cuddlefish and quieting their crying. (GZ Kidzone)
• From the ocean comes what we’ve feasted on daily: mahi-mahi, wahoo, yellowfin tuna, lobster too large to feed four people, reef crab, coconut crab, fresh water prawns, cuddlefish (like a big squid- makes incredible calamari). (Offshore Odysseys)
• Frutti Di Mare Alla Como
  Marinated octopus, calamari and cuddlefish
  $7.95 (menu of the Como Inn, Chicago)
• Squids and cuddlefish are modern decendants of the the orthoceris. (link)
• Here divers will find the flamboyant cuddlefish, whose ability to flash an array of colors is simply amazing. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• He says it makes him weep when he sees them poor diluted fools going around and thinking they is well men, talking and laughing and marrying and giving in to marriage right on the edge of the grave. (Danny's Own Story, by Don Marquis, 1912)
• No, it comes from plain, simple spite. Spite, caused by people who think the average Mac user is some sad, diluted fool who doesn’t “know any better”. (Capitalist Lion, June 24, 2003)
• Can we ever again be diluted into believing sanctions work? (OpinionJournal reader response, Nov. 2003)
• Obviously buoyed by the self-diluted notion of momentum and the L.A. Times Poll thru the Conservative echo chamber buzz, the Bush camp and the RNC knew damn well the contents of Miller’s speech – and, pulled the trigger on another ‘slam dunk’, anyway. (Democrats & Liberals, Sep. 6, 2004)
• Indeed, these diluted souls (as represented by Mr. Carlson above) feel they have the right to tell a worldwide religious organization who should lead them. (Righting Wisconsin, Apr. 22, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• While I agree that comparisons between Al Queda and a trained national military force is short sided, dhoyt, I would not agree that religious martyrdom and cold blooded murder are in any way the same (besides, wouldn’t angry, indiscriminate terrorists be committing hot blooded manslaughter?). (MetaFilter)
• I don’t think there is one group of people that is greedy and then us poor people aren’t greedy that I think is silly, but I do think people are short sided. I think record companies are short sided and created and exasperate a lot of these problems so I hold my industry accountable and we always were the elite kind of store with out industry anyways. (link)
• “I think it is very short-sided to contaminate the environment for a short-term gain,” Post said. (Odessa American Online, 09 June 2005)
• If true, this practice is at once both unnecessary and incredibly short-sided. (link)
• I think that it’s very much a short sided “might makes right policy” that really needs to change. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• “Martha screamed out underneath me as I pumped her faster than before. I could feel her shutter and arch her back up beneath me.” (link)
• “I shutter to think of what our future holds, now more than ever. … I shutter to think that anyone reads her column except for yucks.” (link)
• “I shutter in anticipation.. Then again, maybe I don’t.” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• A romantic suite with a rod iron queen bed and claw-foot tub/shower. (Front Street Inn, Wilmington, North Carolina)
• $100 Rod Iron Glass End Table
  Come and check out this Rod Iron Glass Top End Table right here in our showroom. (link)
• I have a picture centered in the center on the wall and 2 rod iron sconces on each side with a candle. (link)
• Situated along swirls and scrolls of rod iron assuming a total configuration of the letter S, the metal symbols are chronologically arranged in relation to the legacy responsible for the development of Pine-Strawberry area. (Rim Country News, August 25, 1978)