The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Asked whether he felt he was over his illness that would leave him drained some days but not others, Julian explained “I felt fine on both days but I’ve only been racing for an hour but I think now the season has ended so it’s not a problem now. A few beers and in a month I’ll be right as reign and will be back on the road and training for next year.” (British Cycling)
• Right as reign, Blair declares (Hellen Kennedy, NY Daily News, article title)

Spotted in the wild:

• Dear brothers and Sisters, We must be wondering why there should be suffering when we have come from the center (Ultimate Reality) where bliss rains supreme. God is bliss. He is happiness. He is love. (Sri B.Narasimhulu)
• While we tend to romanticize the alternative era of the early 90s, Jim and Greg remind us that the mainstream still rained supreme. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• When a day of school is missed because of inclimate weather and school is in session on Friday during that week, then school will be held on Saturday of that week. (Green Forest Schools, Arkansas)
• The trailer, which was apparently gutted, was only used by a P.E. teacher as a classroom during inclimate or cold weather and for storage of some equipment, Shannon said. (The Progress-Index, 2004/12/17)

Spotted in the wild:

• The excesses of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero bled the imperial treasury, as the generals eventually grabbed the reigns of power. (The Moscow News, N 49 2004)
• Following the 1984 general election, despite a landslide Labour victory, the outgoing National Prime Minister demonstrated a remarkable unwillingness to hand over the reigns of power. (Auckland District Law Society)
• Free Reign for the Sole Superpower? (Boston Review article title)
• The Muslim Council of Britain intend to seek immediate clarification from the government that expressions of support for Muslims overseas, such as Palestinians or the Chechens, would not be banned.
  However, Lord Falconer seemed to suggest that the law was being specifically drafted to reign in key individuals. “I think we know who we want to target in relation to this,” he said. (The Sunday Herald, Aug 7, 2005)
• So eagerly anticipated is the annual game of “who’s minding the shop?” while the prime minister takes his August break, that this year the Sun published a “Prescott countdown” to the dreaded day when the deputy prime minister would take up the reigns of power - and, theoretically, have his finger on the button. (Guardian Unlimited, Matthew Tempest, Aug 13, 2002)
• And yet we hear little about the aftermath of war in Iraq. Speculation abroad is rife. Will we seize Iraq’s oil fields? To whom do we hand the reigns of power after Saddam Hussein? Will our war result in attacks on Israel? (Guardian Unlimited, Robert Byrd, Feb 18, 2003)
• As one imam put it to me: “Why has the Muslim community failed in reigning in their own youth and shaping their future? Why have the mosques failed to provide rigorous leadership? We must acknowledge our failure.” (Guardian Unlimited, Madeleine Bunting, July 14, 2005)
• Born in rural Limpopo, Hlahla took over the reigns at Acsa in November 2001. She has been credited with the successful realigning of the company’s strategic direction, resulting in improved earnings and an accelerated and intensified transformation process. (Independent Online (South Africa), August 03, 2005)
• Does anyone remember “Professor” Ward Churchill? Yet, each time “we the people” have attempted to pull the reigns in on these seditious individuals, the ACLU has grabbed them from us; only to warn us that if we attempt to stop these terrorists or terrorists-in-the-making, they will sue us. (The Conservative Voice, August 07, 2005)
• The Roman Empire stood appalled:
  It dropped the reigns of peace and war (William Butler Yeats, lines 13-14 of "Two Songs from a Play", the play being "The Resurrection", 1931)

Spotted in the wild:

• With the possibility of trouble starting up again, I felt that this was a good way to help diffuse any complications similar to the last time. (in a fan fiction)
• It’s 2004 and India and Pakistan are at war, both with missiles ready and aimed. The American president and his top advisors must diffuse the situation. (BBC Four)