The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• If the battle continues to be neck-in-neck, the real campaigning for the Presidency may be even more interesting. (Univ. of Kentucky Daily Beacon, Feb. 12, 1996)
• Of all the experiments worldwide, those by the CDMS team and the Italian-Chinese team are considered to be neck-in-neck, in front of the pack. (UC Santa Barbara press release, Feb. 25, 2000)
• But Congressman Lazio polled in the 40-percent range with Hillary, making for a neck-in-neck race that had to be exciting enough, and giving Wolfson ample opportunity to unleash that New York emotion of his. (Duke University Alumni Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2001)
• “We needed to coordinate and graduate together because we are not flying everyone out here twice,” Norma says, adding that the stress of staying neck-in-neck with her sister doubled the ordinary tension of completing a dissertation. (Harvard University Gazette, June 6, 2002)
• The two appear to be neck-in-neck, as different national polls now show the race to be a statistical dead heat. (Stanford University Daily, Oct. 15, 2004)