The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Apart from ethnic or cultural ties, does the spirit of the community still exist in 1998 or has it fallen by the weigh side, along with so called family values? (Simon Fraser University, The Peak, May 10, 1998)
• Another critic, District Leader Joseph Haslip, said it is unfortunate that Pataki is using “our neighborhood as a staging area for another campaign promise, which will fall by the weigh side after the Nov. 5 election.” (Amsterdam News, Oct. 24, 2002)
• In his earlier days he had remarked that when he made $200,000 he would retire, but success got the best of him and his early retirement plan fell by the weigh side. (Nevada History)
• Now let’s hope they don’t get weigh-laid by success and can deliver as they’ve done over the past two years. (Morning Brief, Jan. 10, 2000)
• An allergy attack weigh-layed me from the first of Thursday’s presentations, but I did arrive in time for “600 Million Years of Mass Extinctions” by Douglas Erwin of the Smithsonian. (Cambridge Conference Network, Apr. 4, 2000)
• We had been in Austin for a few days now and not experienced any live music having been weigh laid by Lovejoy’s bar. (Pat and Helen World Tour)
• College Park was a weigh station for the nomadic man. (Univ. of Maryland-Baltimore Co., The Retriever, Apr. 17, 2001)
• For us students it is a weigh station for some indefinably complex future that is more exciting, dangerous, and (we feel) ultimately better that what’s here now. (Hamilton College News, Jan. 28, 2004)
• Vanderbilt cannot be a weigh station for someone’s first great smash hit of a book; we have to be a destination, a place to remain and work for the long and fruitful lifespan of a career. (Vanderbilt University Chancellor, Faculty Assembly address, Spring 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• The mellifluous, well healed Bavarians, deeply Catholic and geographically closer to Milan than Berlin are infuriatingly cynical. (BBC, Feb. 22, 2000)
• Their retro Chairman Mao jackets brought a few stares from the well-healed of Princeton. (Princeton Packet, May 23, 2001)
• Lee is eyeing one of those coveted six spots, despite the fact that his “pockets don’t run deep enough” to serve among the traditionally well-healed members, he said. (Yale Daily News, Sep. 25, 2001)
• But the reality of limited funding remains and is something that the leaders of the less well-healed school districts can understand. (Illinois Issues Online, May 2002)
• Is it asking too much for a few well-healed and well-placed individuals to risk their jobs? (The Crisis Papers, Jan. 2, 2004)
• When it comes to the economy, the antagonists to rural strife are not their well-healed metropolitan counterparts, but corporations, Dudley said. (Street News Service, June 13, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Useful at being a jack-of-all-traits, Friberg was given full visual artistic authority on set in almost every stage. (Meridian Magazine, Mar. 8, 2003)
• Another classic tenet in evolutionary ecology is that a generalist phenotype cannot excel in any particular function (i.e., a jack of all traits is a master of none). (Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, conference paper abstract, Jan. 2004)
• While it appears that the business development person has to be a jack of all traits, this is far from the truth. (Oaktree Research, May 20, 2004)
• Besides that, this program also hopes to develop the students into a jack-of-all-traits in other fields in addition to the academics. (doctorjob.com.my, July 28, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Krohn’s furled brow and witty demeanor sharply criticizes his son, Douglas. (Univ. of Houston Daily Cougar, Apr. 20, 1999)
• As the de rigueur firebrand villain Chauvelin, William Michals furls his brow and supplies a dosage of testosterone that gives the evening genuine pizzazz. (Cleveland Scene, Mar. 8, 2001)
• Frances furls her brow, because she doesn’t really want to marry one of her past boyfriends, move to California and work in the Industry. (Harvard Crimson, Dec. 6, 2001)
• As she furled her brow and continued her noontime walk, Jaworski called her friend on a cellular phone to vent. (New Britain Herald, CT, Mar. 21, 2003)
• He gave an affirmative nod and furled his brow. (Notre Dame Magazine, Autumn 2003)
• When she furls her brow and sprints her 100 meters at a pace appropriate for someone taking new steps, her long hair bounces behind her in a ponytail held by two scrunchies. (Pak Tribune, June 7, 2004)
• Butch’s game may have been as pretty as a personalized photo of Lyle Lovett, especially because he played with that furled brow and tried to look mean as he scored while losing his balance or was parked on his butt after taking a charge. (Capital Times, Madison, WI, Dec. 4, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Thanks for listening to my quorums about Seth. (NCD Tau Beta Sigma Secretary-Treasurer Report, 2000)
• But at the end of the day, no mistake should be made: the twelve fraternal members of the SEC are at a crossroads, trying to balance their collective commitment towards being the most celebrated football conference in the nation with eradicating its newfound image of being maverick institutions with no quorums about bypassing a few NCAA rules. (Acceleration Online, Oct. 4, 2002)
• I have no quorums about my disability. I’ve been wearing two artificial legs since 1947. (Lookout, CFB Esquimalt, Nov. 8, 2004)
• Today we say that our society has no quorums about peoples sexual preferences. (Woman On The Edge of Time, review)