The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I’ve a rather sorted past, and by nature, I’m quite the fighter and I like a good challenge and fight. So, keeping that in mind, I’ve gotten myself into plenty actual fights. (link)
• Abe learned about her sorted past as a high priced call-girl who worked for and with Stefano DiMera. (link)
• OK, so you are interested in the whole sorted story of how we got dust mites to ride on our MEMS device. (link)
• donnie darko is the dark and sorted tale of a senior in highschool with schizophrenia. (link)
• For those unfamiliar, Cicero is a town carved out of a section of Chicago’s southwest side. It would usually be considered a ’suburb’ but with its close proximity to the city it’s almost like Chicago, and then with the system of government and long and sorted relationship with the governments of Chicago and the State of Illinois, it acts more like an autonomous town. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• French hone in on Egypt crash black box signal (abs-cbn news, January 7, 2004)
• Police hone in on site: Stillman wants new station on Robbins Road (Daily News Transcript, January 31, 2005)
• “Performance-wise our Pontiac Grand Am and Kurt’s Chevrolet will be right there,” said Johnson. “We actually expect to be at the head of the pack. We started honing in on it toward the end of last season, but didn’t have enough time to produce all the parts and pieces that it takes to get the performance to where it needs to be. (motorsport.com, 2005-02-07)
• With an election in the offing and opinion polls dictating their every gesture, our political masters have honed-in on immigration as a key battle-ground. (The Scotsman, 8 Feb 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• A month or so back, when it seemed that Mahmoud Abbas was a shoe in for the leadership of the Palestinians, I opined that based on some comments he’d made (which seemed to support terrorism and terrorists) I wasn’t at all sure there’d be much of a change in the Palestinian/Israeli situtation. (link)
• Eagles are a shoe-in to host NFC Championship (Gloucester County Times, January 16, 2005)
• WE’VE been expecting you, Mr Scott. Dougray Scott, the fridge salesman’s son from Glenrothes, was widely considered a shoe-in for the role of James Bond, and even bookmakers had closed betting on the issue. (Scotland on Sunday, 6 Feb 2005)
• Indeed, even sometime critic Donna Brazile, who ran Al Gore’s campaign, was saying on CNN Friday that Dean is practically a shoe-in. (newsday.com, February 8, 2005)