The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I remember doing an experiment in our physics lesson one that involved testing the radioactivity of different radioactive isotopes with a giga counter. Well after we finished a few of use stayed behind (nerdy I know) and played with the giga counter a bit. We tried different things and didn’t get much of a reponse. Then we put a mobile phone next to it, that was on standby and it affected the giga counter readings quite a lot. After that we got someone to call the phone and the giga counter went crazy. (Message board post, Apr 9, 2006)
• “What’s that noise?” asked Sam. Leia spun round. “That’s my giga-counter!” cried Leia. She ran into the cabin of the boat, and came out with an old giga-counter, a device used for detecting radioactivity, she pointed it towards the sphere and it started ticking faster. (Star Wars fan fiction)
• Below is my reply to our friend in Daewoo who suggested i use a Giga-counter to check if my balls were effected by the Microwave Underpants. (Blog post, August 17, 2005)
• The fact that the danger that keeps people out cannot be seen but heard through clicks on a giga-counter makes it all the more mysterious. (Windows Vista forum, March 26, 2007)
• I would visit Area 51 if I was you, there’s always the chance you would see something or find something interesting. Get/Take a giga counter too, and see where the most radiation is. (Message board post, Oct 23, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• All tolled, the Republican administrations from Lincoln to Garfield gave their railroad buddies 155,504,994 acres (more area than Texas), until Democrat Grover Cleveland declared still-unclaimed portions open to settlement in 1887. (Bits of News, Sep 3, 2007)
• No, not Scheme! Please, anything but Scheme! Oh, the memories, the horror, the untolled misery and death it left in its wake! (Slacker Central forum, April 3, 2002)
• “Even if we get a killing frost, it wouldn’t change yields too much on our main grain crops,” he said Thursday afternoon. “All tolled, it won’t have much of an economic impact, not that it won’t cut down yield on the late planted crops, but there weren’t very many acres of that this year.” (Guardian Unlimited, Reader film review, Oct 22, 2003)
• And also worth seeing for Johnny Depp’s comical antics. Good, silly fun. And, all tolled, much better than time spent in a Soviet-era holding cell. (Guardian Unlimited, Reader comment, Nov 22, 2006)
• If you don’t believe the West’s possession of nukes didn’t save untolled lives during the Soviet era, you are ignoring reality, which is no unique event herein. ()

Spotted in the wild:

• So Folks this has not been a very good week and I now have a headache that I hope it does not turn into a mindgrain. (Blog entry, April 20, 2007)
• I WAS PUT ON DEPAKOTE AND IT HELP ME GREATLY CAUSE IT NOT ONLY HELPED MY BI-POLAR BUT IT HELPED MY SEIZURES AND MINDGRAIN HEADACHES. (IndianaGasPrices.com forum, June 30, 2004)
• I think I do have a mind grain so I guess i’ll have to go out and get some medicine for that because this is just unbearable. (Blog entry, Sep 06, 2007)

Spotted in the wild:

• “If i can’t get this lever to work I my as well trash my whole mod. and crawl inside of a bottle.” (link)
• “you my as well set yourself up with a cathador then have to run to port-o-johns every 10 minutes…” (link)
• “I figure if I haven’t broken that habit now at the age of 22, I my as well come to peace with it and push ahead!” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Cameron’s decision that for now she just wants to have sex with the guy she “did” before when she was on drugs was just a jar-dropper. And it was perfectly deliviered. In short: “Wanna f**k?” […] As I said: An absolute classic considering the laughs, awkward moments and jar-droppers! (Polite Dissent, Review of "House", Episode 14 (Season Three), Feb 13, 2007)
• Plus, an equally jar-dropping flashback to Hatsumi’s tiny-tot days that throws new light on how the veritable train wreck of her life got started. (eMerchandise, Review of "Hot Gimmick", Vol. 8)
• Now go download this jar dropping trailer! (Breed Files gaming forum, Aug 07, 2002)
• I know I don’t post much, I am a huge AA fan too, but I have been watching alot of Pride and alot UFC, and my eyes are open now, Pride is by far better, watching fights with pride is jar-dropping, UFC has become boring as hell, all of the buildup and then have lackluster fights. (Sherdog mixed martial arts forum, July 12, 2006)