The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• “It’s all for not if you don’t have some kind of tree ordinance,” he said. (Hannibal Courier-Post, May 7, 2004)
• They had Molly as a solid champion for nearly 6 months. There was Trish, Lita, Jazz, Victoria, Gail Kim and Jacqueline. But now it’s all for not. (Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jan. 14, 2005)
• “I’m never going to believe it’s all for not. I think that there’s a reason. I don’t know that we’ll be able to completely articulate a reason for something as horrific as has occurred now. I don’t know that we’re every going to understand why, but it did,” said Carter. (WISH-TV, Indianapolis, Feb. 14, 2005)
• I would think that it puts everyone in a bind, including you and all of your workers, to continue to spending the funds that have been appropriated for that and to know that it may all come to not. (Utah Citizens' Advisory Commission on Chemical Weapons Demilitarization, June 15, 2000)
• But if it is outside the Will of God, it will all come to not. (Lutheran Church Charities)

Spotted in the wild:

• Q. You mentioned something about a snake that has eaten a large meal would have to void the meal before hibernating if it was too late in the season. Did you actually witness this or any evidence of it?
  A. No , I think that’s perpetuating another ‘old wives tail’. (Cold Blooded News, Sep. 1997)
• The old adage that people do not buy investment products has been proved to be untrue and I believe the Stakeholder will be a further nail in the coffin of that old wives’ tail. (Investment Management Association, "The Challenge of Stakeholder Pensions", Oct. 19, 2000)
• Make a list of some of your Medical Beliefs (that might be an oxymoron) to hand in. Such as related to diet, preventing illness, healing, longevity, pain control, heart disease, cancer treatment, etc. etc. and indicate whether you believe those are based on “good hard science”, anecdotal evidence, witch-craft, snake-oil, old-wives tails, your doctor’s advice, your friend/neighbor, etc.etc. (UCLA School of Public Health, Epidemiology 100 syllabus, Mar. 23, 2004)
• Yes, the villain and his henchmen are vanquished in the end, but everything is not perfected in some unreal fairy tail. (Chalcedon Foundation, Sep. 18, 2001)
• At the June meeting we will be discussing Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride, along with The Robber Bridegroom, a short fairy tail by the Brothers Grimm. (Books and Cooks, June 8, 1998)
• Speculations continued to fly over the Internet concerning whether Bush was wired, whether he had diabetes and the bulge was an insulin device, whether he had a heart attack (he had allegedly postponed his yearly physical this year), or whether the tell-tail bulge was just a flack jacket. Tailors weighed in and most said that the tell-tale bulges could not be explained by poor tailoring. (Blog Left, Oct. 30, 2004)
• Emergency Civil Defense workers are in the fields, watching the skies for funnel clouds aloft and weather forecasters are in front of their radar screens looking for tell-tail tornado “hook echoes”. (UIUC Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology)
• I don’t think it is morally right for the Truth Telling Project to solicit people to tattle-tail on the government. (Professional Ethics, Sep. 13, 2004)
• Ms. Moultrie argued that tattle-tails are people that can’t solve their problems with their peers. (Minutes of the Demosthenian Literary Society, University of Georgia, Oct. 23, 1997)
• There is a common wives-tail about Cottonmouth not being about to bite underwater. This is completely untrue. (Snakes of Arkansas)
• Many people believe that modern traps have teeth and animals chew their legs off. These wives tails are just plain false. (ArboristSite, Jan. 24, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• I think everyone has a superstitious side. Have you ever seen pennies around blackjack tables? There is an old wise tale having to do with heads and tails. People throw them at the side of the table and depending on the outcome…they may play or move on! (Let's Talk Winning, Jan. 31, 2002)
• Re: Will surfing with a cold make me sicker, or is that an old wives tale?
  Its just an old wise tale, the salt water will clean out your sinuses and you’ll feel like a million bucks after a nice session of surf. (SurferMag Message Boards, Jan. 23, 2004)
• i have been told, by an old time hatcher, that cooler hatching temps produce more of one sex then the other. has anyone ever experienced this or what he just feeding me an old wise tale? (GardenWeb Farm Life Forum, Feb. 4, 2005)
• I don’t think that’s really true; it’s more like an unsubstantiated wise tale. (Orientation and Mobility listserv, Oct. 6, 2004)
• Take for an example a CEO who can’t get email to members of his board, his investors, or even his grandmother because his company’s email system has been blacklisted. Seem like a wise tale? It’s not. The filtering of legitimate email is now an everyday occurrence. (Chip's Deliverability Tips, Aug. 18, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Scan only the directory. Hackers can make symoblic links to actual programs in other directories so a program thinks their in one directory when they really aren’t. In lame man’s terms… a shortcut to the real file, all they do is put the real file outside the punkbuster or game directory and if punkbuster uses it they would break your new EULA… IT WON’T WORK. (link)
• To summarize: they ARE your IISP, or Internet Infrastructure Service Provider. Or in lame man’s terms, they are the company that develops routing methods which allows your pocket to be delivered from east to west in the matter of <50ms instead of your typical 150ms from anywhere within USA. (comp.dcomp.xdsl list)
• Mostly for revenge purposes… I’ll put it in lame man’s terms; A great amount of the people that I absolutely despise are involved in the TA community (link)
• So he translated that she has a very very small infarct on her kidney. Which, in lame man’s terms, means her kidney is shrinking. Very little. He said it is not uncommon in old cats. (TheCatSite.com)
• I’d get up and help them fight against the plague’s evil, though, to my avail they are deceased. I say it in such lame-man’s terms, but i have become numb to any heartache, any pain. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• At 46, Feeley is a dead wringer for Henry Winkler, but speaks with the controlled growl of Clint Eastwood. (Philadelphia Business Journal)
• Highly dramatic and darkly pretty, Palmer’s voice is a dead wringer for Tori Amos’s. (NY Rock Confidential)
• Benigni plays a simple guy who ends up being a dead wringer for a local gangster. (Epinions.com)