The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I wonder if they’ve changed the time of year of the sale — I certainly don’t recall that the little lasses had to freeze themselves for their cause, hocking cookies outside of supermarkets in the middle of the *winter*. (soc.motss, Jan 19, 1999)
• Most of these courses are simply recruiting grounds for the various academic departments — storefront windows where they hock their wares to wide-eyed freshmen and sophomores, trying desperately to convince them that what they have to offer is more valuable and useful than what’s being sold next door. (Univ. of Michigan Review, Mar 31, 1999)
• He usually heads out to his “home base” in the U-district, although he occasionally goes up to Capitol Hill to hock his wares on Broadway. (Univ. of Washington Daily, Nov 29, 1999)
• He’s hocking some video tape on his website. (rec.aviation.piloting, Aug 9, 2000)
• Even the street venders have relocated to Flushing, Queens to hock their wares. (NYU Portfolio, May 12, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• The 84-year-old John Paul was laid out in Clementine Hall, dressed in white and red vestments, his head covered with a white bishop’s miter and propped up on three dark gold pillows. Tucked under his left arm was the silver staff, called the crow’s ear, that he had carried in public. (International Herald Tribune, Apr 4, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Diversity is blogging’s strong suite (link)
• Jazz and Classical seem to be their strong suites. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• We want comics to be better, but our discourse is admittedly coarse at times. Our opinions are so gutteral that tamer metaphors seem not to capture them, be they disgust or joy. (link)
• These are some of the ugly things I’m reacting to here as of late. Your comments about Randall Terry seem so gutteral, they reveal more about you than you know. (link)
• There would also be old guys in the neighborhood who had old blues 78s of various things like Smokey Hogg. That was off limits to my mother because she thought that those kinds of blues were much too gutteral, but I loved them. (link)
• From Bakerina, this post was really gutteral and intense I thought. (link)
• To insult someone with a mind as gutteral and obscene as yours, my Islamic-Fundamentalist friend, someone certainly does have to stoop low. (link)
• Let’s not forget that these guys went into this with eyes wide open and a pile of explicitly worded releases signed, dated and witnessed. They knew exactly what they were getting into. Yet they were perfectly willing to undergo this sort of thing for money and perhaps that gutteral 15 seconds of reality TV “fame.”
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  By the way, by “gutteral” did you mean “guttering”, as in “to burn low and unsteadily; to flicker”? Just curious!
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  I guess what I meant was related to the gutter, lower in class than bona fide fame: gutteral (not like the throaty noise some folks make.) (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Far as I care they are all guilty but CBS and Lockhart are looking to put the blame on Burkett who is a great scrapegoat for just the reason you posted. (link)
• I doubt that pointing the finger at our intelligence service will do much good except give people an undeserving scrapegoat and waste a lot of time. (link)
• This point tries to make homosexuality a scrapegoat by inclusion with the failings of heterosexuals. (link)
• Do you think Tice might end up being a scrape goat? (link)
• Within two weeks PRI Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha was linked to the assassination - strongly believed to be the scrape goat of a powerful group. (link)
• In the past year, I see a couple of scrape-goat actions resulting in teachers that have taught math for a long time no longer teaching math next year. (link)