The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• A member who elects to terminate its membership or is cancelled by a group remains jointly and severely liable for workers’ compensation obligations of the group and its members which were incurred during the cancelled or terminated member’s period of membership. (Connecticut General Statues, Jan. 1, 1997)
• Pertinent to this appeal, the court then found Carrier and Yellow Freight jointly and severely liable for the damage sustained by the unit. (Supreme Court of Iowa ruling, Feb. 14, 2001)
• The PSA Executive shall be jointly and severely responsible for approving all activities sponsored and co-sponsored by the PSA, including all events involving the raising or spending of PSA funds. (University of Calgary Political Science Association Constitution)

Spotted in the wild:

• Mass not only updates the state of research and the great issues that still need to be addressed, he presents a peon of praise for Hall. (Historian, Winter 1993)
• Euphoric suggests at once a celebratory style, peons of praise to nature, to woman, to health, for instance, and a powerful emotional investment in abstract concepts and terms. (Literature and Medicine, Spring 1996)
• To Steve Maharey, tertiary education supremo: an E for his undergraduate coupling of Boys Own Annual and Dr Pangloss in boosterish responses to questions and teeth-on-edge peons of praise to this best-of-all-possible governments. (New Zealand Herald, Dec. 19, 2001)
• Readers don’t just renew subscriptions, they write sincere peons of praise for the paper. (Canadian Driver, Sep. 23, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Distance education student will step foot on campus for first time at commencement. (Indiana State University press release, Dec. 11, 2002)
• I pray my dream can come true, and I can one day step foot on that beautiful campus as not just a spectator-but as a student. (University of Notre Dame Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Sep. 10, 2003)
• Our staff is here to walk you through every step of the way until you step foot on campus in the Fall of 2005. (Aurora University newsletter, Sep. 2004)
• I had stopped going down to the Café Wha? in the afternoons. Never stepped foot in there again. (Bob Dylan: Chronicles (Vol. One), Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster UK), 2004, chapter 1, p. 18)

Spotted in the wild:

• I looked at this darling toe headed boy, and shook my head. (Technology And Persons With Disabilities Conference Proceedings, 1999)
• We felt like Belgium or Bolivia when they play us, as our sweet li’l toe-headed amateurs whipped the older, villainous Commie Red rats. (CNN/Sports Illustrated, Sep. 23, 1999)
• “Do you really believe that story about the plane?” asked the toe-headed boy. (Literary Review, Spring 2003)
• That’s because the public perception on White is that he’s a potentially another Heisman washout, a slow-footed, weak-armed guy seen as Gino Torretta with a drawl or a toe-headed Danny Wuerffel. (ESPN The Magazine, Jan. 6, 2005)
• A toe-head with blue eyes heard the front door of the house open and ran full-speed ahead towards a man with a tie exclaiming through a wide smile, “Dad!” (Utah Foster Care Foundation, June 15, 2003)
• I, of course, am the cute little toe-head in the front. (Planet Dan, Nov. 30, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• When he got home from the army, he was a bit of a rebel rouser type, from what I understand. (Alleghany News Online, Oct. 17, 2002)
• He was portrayed as a political dissenter and a rebel rouser. (Middlebury Campus, Nov. 7, 2001)
• If you get pegged as a rebel-rouser, eventually you’ll be shoved out. (Juilliard Journal Online, Feb. 2005)