The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Most of the news aggregator screenshots I looked at seemed very complicated. I didn’t want to get in over my head, so I grabbed the simplest aggregator I could find (EffNews RSS Reader) and deigned it worthy of an install. Two minutes later, I was draggin’-‘n’-droppin’ RSS links and seeing what it could do. (link)
• Since we’ve got a bit of a “2000” vibe going on in Emulation Zone this month, it’s worth taking a moment to once again celebrate one of the chief reasons that emulation is so great, namely the chance to finally play games which the software industry didn’t deign us worthy of ever being allowed to play legitimately, because we live in the wrong country. (link)
• In 1604, Lord Honore II came to the throne and launched Monaco into its “Great Century”. Reflecting upon his accomplishments, he deigned himself worthy of a new title, Prince Honore II. Grimaldi rules have proudly held the title of Prince ever since. (visitmonaco.com)
• Buz, you might have missed this, but the whole of Andya’s last post was dedicated to debunking this claim. Its a shame you don’t deign it worthy of a proper read and response, but I suppose the easy conclusion to draw is that you don’t to hear anything that might alter your pre-conceived notions of Islam, because your preconceived notions represent a caricature of reality, which allow you to vent your fury and feel self-righteous at the same time. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Desserts
  […] Fresh Fruits in Season
  Mini Napoleons and Pastries
  Mini Eggclairs
  Assorted Fancy Cookies
  […] (US Mercant Marine Academy, buffet selection)
• But when the meal is done you must wander over to the 6 foot pastry case and pick out one of the homemade desserts. There are numerous fruit squares. Egg clairs, jumbo cookies, unbelievably moist triple chocolate layer cake, and you will never have apple struedel like theirs. (link)
• […]
  New York Style Cheesecake
  Miniature Eggclairs
  Petite fours
  German Chocolate Cake
  […] (Renaissance Catering)
• Sounds like my mom! Everytime I come home from college & go shopping with her, I get all my health foods. She always ends up buying chocolate ice cream, eggclairs etc. etc. (link)
• We also went to the Italian Deli and Bakery. Picked up some fresh Locatelli Cheese right off the rind and some great Italian Bread. Yum. Also some mini Chocolate Eggclairs. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• I always respond that she was the first one I called each time, but she was so diswrought over my sister she never heard me. (link)
• But comparing getting mugged for drug cash to being diswrought because you saw some lesbians making out is hardly a good comparison. (link)
• I AM a single father raising one of my three kids (14, 16, and 20). My daughter (16), is very diswrought over something right now, and we are going for a “pleasure” drive at 12:30 on a school night. We get along great, but occasionally there are a few bumps. (link)
• As his mother was emotionally diswrought, most of the care for the young child fell on other domestics of the Tower, who did their best to raise a fine young man. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• For most companies that offer traditional co-op advertising programs, very little is ever paid to the results of those programs and most typically begin the next year with a “rubber stamp” of the program from last year. Relatively little is done to analyze the performance – even for those who don’t take a “zero sum gain” approach to channel promotion. (link)
• I think that most economists would not regard the stock market as a zero-sum gain. (Game Theory Forum)
• Zero-Sum-Gain is an economics term used to describe a theory that says there is a finite and limited supply of wealth in the world and so the more you have the less I can have. […] God’s ways are not a Zero-Sum-Gain. Your blessing does not affect my blessing and mine does not affect yours. (Karateforchrist.com)
• The world is not a zero-sum game where America’s wealth comes at the expense of others. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• With our skills at intrusion, and the ability to wreck concentrated, disciplined havoc among computer systems, with said skills even possessing the ability to wreck chaos outside of cyberspace, it could be said that the possession of such skills is the equivalent, literally, of the militial skills of those historic knights. (link)
• This will wreck havoc with Lunatics and Werewolves, won’t it? (link)
• Mayor Michael J. McGlynn said over the past few years, the area has been assaulted with a number of difficult winters which have wrecked havoc on several of the city’s streets. He said he is in the process of putting together a list of roadways that have been hardest hit and which ones are in need of the most attention. (Medford Transcript, February 24, 2005)
• But in Southern California, the heavy rains have wrecked havoc. (San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, 2005)
• Like alien bugs from some futuristic sci-fi movie, the microbes literally chew metal and armour to pieces - in record time. Known as chemical metal-embrittlement agents, these are composed of substances that alter the crystal structure of metals, wrecking chaos with every mouthful. (link)