The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I’m worried that Knife of Dreams will be the quote-on-quote second half of Crossroads. (Post in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan)
• There is nothing wrong with quote on quote “selling out”, but when I started seeing all the quote on quote “punk-rocker” crowd wearing all their hot rod circuit clothes and patches, I silently put away my once-loved Hot rod circuit t-shirt and never saw it again. (link)
• Some might say that having “penis envy” (which I actually often reserve the saying for males, since the whole “is it big-wide-long-normal enough?” debate leads me to believe me that is THEY they really have this quote on quote “penis envy” ) is a sign of a transgenderal person. (link)
• I have heard many times that since I have CP that I couldn’t do most of the things that regular (quote on quote) people can. (link)
• Everybody seems to label you guys as quote on quote “anti-media.” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• The biggest problem with most of these scams is Identity theft. Ill give you all the help you need to make this worth your wild. (link)
• It will be well worth your wild to get these free credits!!! (link)
• You are saving the native plants and letting the trees breathe. So it would be worth your wild to volunteer. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Indeed, even if an identified mass does have eight limbs it still may not be an octopus - it could be that you have happened upon a couple in the throws of passion or an amputee five-a-side football team. (The Octopus - Its Role and Identification in Society)
• Ok, granted, I’m still in the orgasmic throws of those magical first 5 or 6 listens of a solidly great album, but discovering Barafundle is one of the best things to happen to me this year. (Amazon.com customer review)
• This is a story that focuses on one family who find themselves in the throws of an alien invasion of earth with one intent: total extermination of mankind. (Truckblog movie review)
• Joseph Califano, Jr., chairman of the National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse, said, “Our Nation is in the throws of an epidemic, of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction.” (Capital News)
• Well, I think we want to tune it, but I can guess what the President is going to say…”Blah blah blah, we’re winning, blah, insurgency is in death throws, blah, our troops moral is great blah, Good night and God Bless America.” (americasdebate.com)
• I don’t like goup sex. I can barely stand one person seeing me sweaty and uttering ridiculous phrases in the throws of passion, let alone an audience. (link)
• This is the autobiographical equivalent of the back of a cereal packet but none the less brings a rather unique insight into the death throws of a government. (Amazon.com, customer review)

Spotted in the wild:

• On her newest album, Judy Tenuta: A Space Goddessy, she leaves no comic stone unturned, skewing everyone from Calista Flockhart (“there should be a law-you have to weigh more than the kid you adopt”) to the First Daughters (“the Bush twins-Heineken and Miller Light”). (NoHo>LA, May 9, 2002)
• For obvious reasons, the retraction failed to mention that the reporter made up an entire skit skewing me. (Armstrong Williams, March 21, 2005)
• wonderful recap, the only reason I want to Jon to stay around for a good long time is so you can keep on skewing him in the recaps. (Fans of Reality TV forum)
• The blades go right through the monk’s kidneys, neatly skewing him. (Dranthur Vs Bruce Lee)

Spotted in the wild:

• Fruit of the Loom underwear gave nearly 100 percent of its corporate donations to tidy-whitey-wearing Republicans… (Gay and Lesbian Review, March-April 2005, p. 4)