The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I think the FC, is an awsome example of empirical China, and it oozes history, but some of the history has been spoilt, in the charge for growth and in the persuit of the tourist’s money, with signs with the tag line “Made possible by our friends at American Express” and a nice big logo. (link)
• wouldn’t be a long drive to Vegas, but they would have to deal with driving on what to them seems like the wrong side of the road, not to mention the empirical units of measurement (miles instead of kilometers) (link)
• (iv) flexibility in using metric and empirical units; (link)
• (Although this site uses empirical units it could easily adapted for metric). (link)
• Of particular interest, Hanson’s discussion of the final days of Empirical Japan and General Sherman’s march through the South offer important lessons to the West during the global War on Terror. (Geopolitical Review)
• How come no one complains that director Oliver Stone is glorifying empirical conquest? (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Trees and all plant life show signs in spring of the natural cycle of renewal. We do it, too. We may not be as obvious about it as the plum trees and the pale-blue cyanothus bush or the waxy camelia. Yet we do it nonetheless. (link)
• Deer in the wild feed on herbs, fresh shoots of brush, shrubs such as cyanothus, and especially acorns in the fall. (link)
• The brushy areas are also of several distinct kinds, but these merge into one another more or less, and with the exception of perhaps the sage, cyanothus and salmon berry regions, need not be considered as having peculiar avifauna. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Nomar Garciaparra went 3-for-3 with one run scored and an RBI and Troy O’Leary grounded out in the bottom of the ninth to score Garciaparra in a last stitch effort for the Red Sox. (link)
• This is not only emotional for my 2 daughters 18 and 22, but a last stitch effort to clear their skin. (link)
• During the critique of this painting, the class saw the image with only one leg. Ironically, Imbeau’s friend had her leg amputated in a last stitch effort to save her life. (link)
• [Hurricane] Frances made her last stitch attempt to assert her power on Monday by striking Florida’s Panhandle claiming 10 lives and causing $10 billion in damage. (The Daily Vidette, September 9, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Valence Bond Theory was developed by Linus Pauling and others in the late 1930’s to explain bonding and molecular geometry with one underlining theory. (link)
• Will the video be entirely composed of live footage or will there also be an underlining story to it as well? (link)
• Their moral code is strict and the underlining principle of hacking at the premier institute is “If you have to hack, hack by all means but help others.'’ (link)
• There is an underlining story of three African American women (girlfriends) supporting each other as they strive together to fight against the odds. (link)
• “If it’s not an e-mail from someone you know, be careful,” Brinn said. “That’s the underlining principle in which we all operate around here.” (The Daily Reflector, January 30, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• A dandelion
  stretches in the warm sunlight
  by the bobwire fence (link)
• Dorothy Zinke Roberts as a little girl would walk over the fields with her brothers and sisters to go to school. On the way, they had to crawl under a bobwire fence and Dorothy would purposely tear any dress she didn’t like on that bobwire fence so as not to have to wear it again. (link)
• Here I go again with the dang flagging of the bobwire. (We have to have bobwire because of the cows). (link)