The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Another words, is George a reasonably foreseeable plaintiff? (McCombs School of Business, BA 287T midterm exam key, Fall 1996)
• Another words, these mRNAs are expressed from genes with a moderate number of copies. (University of Washington, Genetics 372 midterm exam key, Spring 2002)
• Another words, we generally do not look favorably upon fungi. (University of Hawaii, Botany 135 syllabus, Fall 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• The Tigers took the game, 3-2, enacting revenge on a St. Joseph’s team that beat them just hours earlier in the first game, 1-0. (Daily Princetonian, May 2, 2002)
• I personally own the GameCube version, and I’m definitely getting a kick out playing as Link, but if I owned an XBox, I think I would be spending most of my free time this semester enacting revenge upon the soul-warriors with the massively cool and powerful hell-born. (North Texas Daily, Aug. 29, 2003)
• Temple (6-6) will not have to wait long for the opportunity to enact revenge on its city rival. (Temple University press release, Feb. 5, 2005)
• Anti-death penalty activists argue that we, as a modern civilization, have progressed too far to still be enacting vengeance upon murderers by executing them. (Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star, May 24, 1999)
• The characters with disabilities turned into a mob of murderers by the end of the film, as they slid through the mud and rain to enact vengeance on the nondisabled star. (Journal of Popular Film and Television, Winter 2002)
• In “Delta Force 2,” Chuck Norris plays Colonel Scott McCoy, who is on a mission to enact vengeance on the world’s richest drug dealer, Ramon Cota, for killing his partner. (University of Wisconsin Badger Herald, Feb. 9, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• A British teenager allegedly brought down the Internet systems of a major US port while attempting to extract revenge on a fellow IRC user, a court heard today. (The Register, Oct. 6, 2003)
• The third-seeded Scots will try and extract revenge upon second-seeded Hiram College for a five-game loss back on Oct. 13. (College of Wooster press release, Oct. 30, 2004)
• The win extracted revenge on the Lady Bees, who had beaten Royalton (12-5, 10-5) in December. (Brecksville Sun Courier, Feb. 10, 2005)
• “Perhaps we misjudged their primary concern,” he said. “It wasn’t resolving their credit issue. It was extracting vengeance on the PUC.” (San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 15, 2001)
• It is not courageous to wage war, a decision largely made by senior Bush officials who avoided serving in Vietnam, to pre-emptively attack Iraq based largely upon false intelligence and a son’s personal animus to extract vengeance on Hussein. (Missoulian, letter to the editor, Apr. 6, 2004)
• I can certainly empathize with the desires that many people have to extract vengeance on Iraqis for the atrocities we have witnessed against Americans. (Johnson Co. Daily Journal, letter to the editor, May 27, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Jacqueline Green has rheumatoid arthritis, conjunctive heart failure, and a nonmalignant brain tumor that causes hypertension. (Canton Repository/Associated Press, Jan. 2, 2002)
• He had battled diabetes for years and died of conjunctive heart failure in an Arlington, VA hospital while being treated for respiratory problems. (Radio Recall, Feb. 2004)
• On Oct 22 I received a phone call from the administrator at my mother’s ALF stating she was ill and had conjunctive heart failure. (Newsweek letter to the editor, Jan. 21, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• I had a baby 4 months ago and he thinks my depression is baby blues (postpardon depression). (Dr. Bob forum, Apr. 13, 2001)
• It is about 2 teenagers, the guy works in a shoe store and the girl is pregnant they tell their parents at Christmas time. They move into an old apartment building together, the teenage mother gets post-pardon depression. (Lifetime TV forum, Dec. 5, 2004)