The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. (TPCN Great Quotations)
• Sovereignties are often seen in a battle arrayed in shining armor and civilizations tend to fall between these tools and suffer the stings and arrows of misfortune. (UNESCO)
• Liberals have since the founding of this country moved it FORWARD. Unflinchingly and with tremendous courage. They have taken the stings and arrows of their fellow man and turned them into the reason for their struggle. (link)

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• What I found most appealing about Mr. Schwarz is that he is very proactive about his cause. He makes a point to stay involved in the community and educate others, all the while helping himself. I immediately thought about the locust of control theory of psychology which states that there are individuals who have either an internal or external locust of control. Those individuals with an external locust of control feel that they are in less control of their life and that the control lay outside their autonomy. (Klinefelter Syndrome, student interview)
• When the locust of responsibility and control has returned to you, change is possible. (Bodybuilding.com)
• Business education programs that offer an innovative and interesting opportunity for students to pursue their personal interests and place the locust of control with the student will see a resurgence of student enrollment. (James L. Stapleton, Southern Illinois University)
• The distributed resources would be aligned with major academic divisions, but could be extended to other areas that were the locust of major support needs. (Bucknell University)
• What one has to see here is that the connection between governance and academic freedom is absolutely central to what we’re talking about, and that in a sense, the locust of decision-making is really what academic freedom is all about, that especially as issues become much more complicated. (UC Berkeley)
• With respect to averaging vectors and rotations, perhaps the most appropriate approach would be one that rejects your fundamental assumption — that is, maybe you shouldn’t average at all. Consider preserving a locust of vectors and their associated rotations, and instead think about ways to present your data which can express all this information, instead of “hiding” it as a mean. (link)
• The reason Benjamin chooses this particular time and place is because nineteenth century Paris was the locust of a booming capitalist epistemology. (Connecticut College)

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• Well, the Paul Prudhomme, I suppose, would be the—the poster boy for how to decimate a species, the Black and Red Fish craze of years gone by for all the finest eateries in New Orleans, was based upon purse-seining of brood stock of Red Fish out in the Gulf of Mexico, Shandler(?) Channel and other places like that. (Texas Legacy Project)
• I found myself making breaded pickerel, black and red fish, and it’s great because it doesn’t make the whole house smell like fish. (Canadian Jewish News)
• The food was fantastic like always!! We ate Redbeans and rice, black and redfish, jumbalaya, gumbo, crawfish stew, crawfish fettuccini..all of the cajun favorites!!!!!!!!!!! (link)

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• A distinction must be made between social morays (the ethics that prevail by means of the unwritten code of social contract at any point in a given civilization) and criminal law. (Shaksper.net)
• This ad is suggestive that men are dogs, are not worthy of wearing clothing and need to be tied to a woman who has the power. It also suggests that a woman can have more than one man. Both of these points contravene the social morays that are part of today’s society and involves discrimination of men as a lesser sex rather than as an equal. (Wilson's Almanac)
• The consequence was social uproar as new people entered the site on a whim after stumbling on long-dead threads and posted without reading FAQs or without knowing the complex set of social morays that the board requires. (Anil Dash)
• Buñuel and Dali are thumbing their respective noses at every conceivable social moray and value. (DVDBeaver.com)
• Though its setting is modern, the wry sensibility and gimlet-eyed deconstruction of social morays put SNOBS firmly in the tradition of Jane Austen, E.F. Benson (especially the “Lucia” series) and Anthony Trollope. (AOL Bookreporter)
• Most porn is not taboo Sevenblu…it is more of a social moray. (link)

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• The Judge allowed the black box into evidence to determine Mr. Gauthier vehicle’s speed, with no other collaborating evidence. (ExpertLaw)
• It is concluded that the evidence for such a doublet comes only from ¹³C(³He,p)¹⁴N(p’)¹³C GS angular correlations and cannot be taken very seriously without further collaborating evidence. (E K Warburton 1986 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Phys. 12 523-527, abstract)
• Congress should require collaborating evidence in all drug cases to prevent people from be convicted based solely on the word of one person (an informant who is paid for each person convicted, a drug offender getting a reduced sentence for testifying against others). (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 8, 2005)
• The solution is for those in the legal system, as well as the public at large, to demand collaborating evidence before coming to conclusions based on digital evidence alone. (Cato Institue)