The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• As Fritz matured, he also was allowed into the bedroom. Both he and Kira would sleep there during the day and night, as was their want. (A Cat Allergy Story)
• If I was truly without hubris, how would I know the gods were speaking through me at all? Do we demonstrate hubris merely by knowing? Apparently, and not only that, my want is already hubristic. (Talkative Gods, An Interactive Theater Production.)
• Something began to unravel in her mind, and instead of taking the time to create an intricately pithy and exhaustive mental account to be later used as the detailed mental production notes from which to glean her latest sociosatirical presentation as was her customary want, she let that rational thread fray, deciding that for once in her carefully plotted life the time to live in the moment was upon her. (A Serialized Chuck Swinger, The Experimental P.I., Adventure by Tim Gadzinski)

Spotted in the wild:

• To me, shoes were as essential to golf as a mother-in-law suite is to a house—they may be there, but you’d just assume forget about them when they’re occupied. (WorldGolf.com)
• To be blunt, don’t go into to herpetology if you’re a whimp. For one thing, if you’re afraid of crocodiles, you probably just assume not study them up close. (monster Career Advice)
• Given such outdated means of travel, I would just assume stay at home. (link)
• I have a husband that would just assume eat, sleep, and work than have anything to do with me. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• CAMCOM designs data systems, including designs of pier-to-pier, client/server, ATM, frame relay, Internet connection, and voice over data systems. (Open Source Development Labs)
• I’m using Vlans in my network as a way of preventing pier to pier communication - I only want nodes in the network to talk to the gateway (a linux box). (Global Management Systems Inc.)
• Whether you need a Windows ‘95 pier-to-pier network or a Windows NT server-workstation network, A Faster PC® can provide a network solution for you. (A Faster PC)

Spotted in the wild:

• Dear Cecil: Sometimes when I am sleeping I will jerk and wake myself up. My friends say that I am dreaming about falling, and that if I hadn’t jerked and woke myself up I would have died. Is this true? I mean, the only thing I could fall off of when I am sleeping is my bed. But I don’t believe I could die. Uncle Cecil, is this an old wise tail? —Sandy K., Phoenix
  Dear Sandy: An “old wise tail,” whatever that is, no. An old wives’ tale, quite likely. (Cecil Adams, More of the Straight Dope, 1988)
• There’s an old wise tail that says use vinegar and water to clean anything. (The Carpet Doctor)

Spotted in the wild:

• Marilyn and I have been watching a morning dove who nested and has been sitting on the eggs up in our gutter on the front (north) side of the house. (Union University News Release, May 7, 2003)
• Ground feeders like juncos, morning doves, sparrows and cardinals will feed on seed kicked off of platform feeders by other birds or on feed placed on the ground for them. (UNH Cooperative Extension news)
• I wrote about Greek tragedy, not really on Greek tragedy, but, on the 20th Century adaptations of it, … like Morning Becomes Electra, and there were about eight others, French, German, American, and so on. (Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, May 14, 1999)
• The author files contain a large section of Eugene O’Neill material, including 60 letters (1920-1948) to Commins; galleys for Morning Becomes Electra, Ah, Wilderness, The Iceman Cometh, Days Without End, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. (Princeton University Library, Saxe Commins Papers)