The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• You may have the picture of the cigar-smoking general, with feet on desk, pouring over the newest periodicals for news, or grabbing a sheet from the teletype, but it’s the ordinary soldier, the man who fights in the mud and dirt, who wants to know everything that is going on at home. (link)
• Yet as Christians is it not valuable to consider how the Holy Spirit has spoken to our brothers and sisters over the millennia as they have struggled with various issues, poured over the Scriptures and often fasted and prayed heartily with their fellow Christians in the light of the inspired texts? (link)
• This will supply a detailed image of the currents entering the region from this direction, helping Tom Haine to increase the accuracy of his mathematical model of the Irminger Sea. We can see him below at his desk pouring over the next modification to be made. (link)
• What was unusual was the fact that Mary Patten proceeded to acquaint herself with every foot of NEPTUNE’S CAR from bow to stern. In those long days a sea, the young wife watched and learned as her skipper poured over her charts and navigated his vessel. Soon the Captain’s wife was adept at navigation. […] And, all during this, she worried about her husband and paid little attention to her well-being. She poured over few medical texts aboard ship, shaved his head, gave him medication at hand, sat by his side, tried to rally him, but her husband’s health continued to decline. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Starting in April, the 120-passenger Clipper Odyssey will way anchor and leave Singapore for an intriguing 16-day journey to the islands of the Philippines. (Cost: $7,990.) (TIME Asia)
• CAP — Oh, yes, that’s right. I’m the captain. Let’s see… (shouts) way anchor! (link)
• Anchors Away! Atlantis and Herb depart. (link)
• Waying in on the race for U.S. Senator, Yamhill County Republicans gave 1,911 of their votes to Al King, who won the nomination. (Newberg Graphic, OR, May 19, 2004)
• Now pundits are always waying in on why we are engaging in certain things. (Mercury News (San Jose, CA), Aug. 22, 2004)
• Waying in on buying new or old homes. (Medill News Service, Feb. 15, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Quizzes and exams are open book and open notes. This is in keeping with course philosophy that holds that understanding the issues is far more useful and important than learning by route. (link)
• “In the beginning, school will be hard, but then, everything has been. I can drive fine, but I can’t go anywhere,” she joked. “I have no visual perception, and have to learn things by route and repetition, so as soon as I learn where I’m going by landmarks, they change it. […]” (link)
• Next Thoreau refers to the great lesson which we are to learn, whether by route or by understanding. (link)
• There are those who learn things by route, and when one asks a question they point you out to the manuals. They don’t understand that grasping the conceptual logics behind something is the furthest exact opposite of what a manual accounts and stands for. (link)
• MaxSkill Trainer offers 400+ training problems that allow you to focus on specific state curriculum requirements. Additionally, an unlimited number of Skill Sharpening © drill training problems helps students learn mathematical equations by route. (MaxSkill Software Trainer)
• When children were taught the alphabet at a young age they learned it by route and by the time they were at an age to question things they had already accepted the alphabet as being the way it was and there was no reason to question it. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• To ease my frustrations, I moved on to greater challenges where I had an opportunity to apply my studies. To exercise my demons, though, I needed another outlet. That is where this book comes in. (link)
• When Cordelia learned her house was haunted, she decided to fight back rather then run away. As they were exercising the ghost some hit men came looking for Doyle. In the fight Cordelia released Dennis from the wall, his spirit had been trapped in for all those years. (link)
• Isn’t it further interesting that despite the fact that the “name” of Jesus failed to exercise the demons, nonetheless it records that “the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified” as a result of such failure. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Well, there are some reports this morning that the Indonesians are considering the imposition of some kind of marshall law in East Timor, and there’s a suggestion that if that did not produce an improvement in a very short period of time, then there would be a willingness to accept an international force. (ABC Local Radio (Australia), interview transcript)
• It’s just a balance of judgement, Neil, but look, these things are all options but we think that the way things stand, it’s possible that the situation … and it’s only possible … that the situation could improve fairly quickly in East Timor, first of all because the Indonesians are now indicating that they will declare marshall law. Well, we’ll see what that means. (Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, interview transcript)
• For the last five Sundays, from dusk to dawn, the National City Police Department literally has declared `Marshall Law’ upon the residents of National City and upon whomever chooses to use our city streets to eat, shop, and/or socialize. These actions violate our Constitutional Rights “to move about freely without restraint.” (link)
• Br. Steve Cokely announced that a visitor at his meeting on Thurs. 10-14-04 shared information on the possibility of marshal law going into Effect on Mon. 11-1-04. (The Hiltop forum, Oct 27, 2004)
• In short, a “Red” alert will be a de facto call for the imposition of marshal law and we can expect much of the nation to heed such a dire warning. (CounterPunch, February 14, 2003)