The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I besiege you to keep on your front pages reminders to all the people of Hawaii of the atrocities that are occurring in our government in order for Hawaii to wake up and enter a new future with promise of prosperity achieved in honesty and with integrity in the absence of those holding the reigns today. (Hawaii Reporter, letter to the editor, Apr. 16, 2004)
• I besiege you to vote your conscience and for once help put an end to the governmental abuse of the American citizens. (bmonday.com, June 1, 2004)
• I besiege you to employ the services of two special agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation skilled in anti-kidnapping tactics to work with the dedicated team of Oswyn Allard’s Anti-Kidnapping Squad to track down, arrest and charge this gang of kidnappers. (Trinidad Guardian, letter to the editor, Mar. 21, 2005)
• Lastly, if you’ve emailed us the last few months and not received a response to your query yet, may I kindly besiege you to pardon us as we were inactive and hardly accessed our emails. (Blazing Outdoor Adventurers & Co., Apr. 16, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• “It’s a bigger challenge for the entire community of quality management consultants to make sure that the ISO convention does not become a laughing stalk,” he said. (USJ-Subang Jaya, Malaysia, Mar. 19, 2001)
• We have become the laughing stalk of the world. (Cameroon Post Online, Sep. 16, 2004)
• Not only was the live showing a flop but Geraldo Rivera became a laughing stalk for the mainstream press. (LatinoLA, Mar. 2, 2005)
• “There is no question that the grain and oil seed industry is in trouble but the live stalk and horticulture industry is doing pretty well,” said Currie. (The Pioneer, Belleville, Ontario, Oct. 13, 2001)
• They would surely take there toll on farmers, people, and livestalk, not to mention the game animals as well. (Iowa Outdoors forum, May 6, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Erika Hauberg Lunbra (BFA ‘91) directed Princess and the Pauper and Jack and the Bean Stock with K-5 graders in an after-school program at the YMCA. (Ohio University School of Theater alumni news, May 1998)
• Maher compares Jack and the beanstock to the story of Jonah. (Conservative News Feeds, Feb. 18, 2005)
• The sheaf was sort of X-rayed. It looked like a corn stock and also an ear of corn . . . enormous. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Interview with Lowell Houser, July 31, 1964)
• An oblong pumpkin carved in the semblance of a Volkswagen Bus was judged to be the “Most Functional.” It had four small gourds as wheels, a corn stock exhaust pipe and a peace sign carved on its roof. (SUNY New Paltz Oracle, Nov 4, 2004)
• There are people who do cyber stocking, there are people who want to send you messages—even if it is not a virus—who want to prey on you or prey on young children. (Hearing transcript, House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, May 10, 2000)
• A man from Australia was found guilty of cyberstocking his ex-girlfriend who is from America. (UMass Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, May 16, 2004)
• He’s been cyber stocking me for three months. (Canucks Central forum, Nov. 23, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• It also donned on me that Chico is the perfect town to host the festivities. (Cal State Chico, The Orion, Jan. 27, 1999)
• It donned on me as the students were singing, that this is one of only a two places in this country where every participate has a current temple recommend, which is one of our requirements for acceptance. (Steve & Bette Gibson, BYU Center for Entrepeneurship, Nov. 12, 2000)
• The song marked a very emotional time at the concert in which, for the first time, it truly donned on many of the fans in the audience that this was going to be the last time they ever saw the band live. (Univ. of Notre Dame, The Observer, Dec. 5, 2000)
• The Oilers are playing tonight and it dons on us that the cab driver has (conveniently) misunderstood which stadium we want to go to. (TSN Magazine, Nov. 19, 2002)
• But as I walked back to the couch and the movie I was watching with my family, it donned on me the Red Cross rarely, if ever, solicits donations over the phone. (Columbia Star, SC, Feb. 25, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• I just could not figure out how to get better. I would dry fire, practice, all for knot. (Brian Enos forum, Dec. 17, 2004)
• They need to get another single out soon or this thread will be all for knot. (Aimee Mann message board, June 7, 2005)
• He said India’s nuclear tests have strategically changed the situation and world community should decide as to how to cope with it. “Non-proliferation efforts have come to knot, they are shattered,” he added. (Associated Press of Pakistan, May 15, 1998)
• If by chance, one of your ribs is yanked off your side, no matter what the doctors do to make one normal, it will all come to knot. (Mutation Workspace, Sep. 9, 2003)
• We think that the transitional institutions will come to knot unless there is genuine reconciliation, both at the political and social levels. (Center for Research & Dialogue, Somalia, Sep. 2004)