The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Flip chip manufacturing capability requires extreme “do diligence” in the areas of die bumping, substrate design, assembly methods for long-term reliability. (Northampton Community College course description)
• They also did not want to relieve the licensee of their responsibility to do its own do diligence in determining the caliber of people with whom it associated and contracted. (Minutes of the Nevada Assembly Committee on Taxation, Apr. 8, 1999)
• Six years later in 1975 Gross V. Lopez brought before the Supreme Court a student’s rights to do process (Durrett 23). (Houston Teachers Institute, 2004)
• According to the US law, arrest and imprisonment may not be imposed upon a citizen without do process including evidence of a crime and being proven guilty by a judge or jury using the evidence as proof. (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 1996)
• Captain Mark Grazdan, assistant professor of military science, said most of the credit for Capehart’s experiences and life changes is do to Capehart himself. (Univ. of Tennessee Daily Beacon, Feb. 11, 1999)
• This is do to the remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha, which will be drifting westward out of Louisiana by Tuesday. (Texas Climatic Bulletin, Aug. 5, 2002)
• Though the Quest mode lets you kill a lot and you have to maintain your character throughout the game, the challenge just isn’t there; this is do to the fact that your character is roaming the halls and killing enemies without you really having to try too hard. (Univ. of Houston Daily Cougar, May 3, 1999)
• The second place title was not awarded do to the fact that judges agreed on a tie for first place between “Da Brothers” and Iantha Ussin, a senior journalism major. (Louisiana Tech University, The Tech Talk, Nov. 1, 2001)
• I’ll give credit where credit is do, because up until Monday night I refused to give the Lightning any type of credible chance. (Univ. of Northern Colorado Mirror, June 30, 2004)
• We certainly have to give credit where credit is do to Kent, but we didn’t play remotely good enough football today to win a college football game. (Univ. of Buffalo Athletics, Nov. 6, 2004)
• Jesus said give Caesar his do as leader and authority and give God His do. (Grace Christian Fellowship, June 20, 2004)
• James will get a great deal from some team that is able to give him his do. (Indiana University School of Physical Education and Tourism Management, Apr. 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• The crutch of the matter is to abstract the real world problem to the point where we have all possible states of all variables in the equation. (Slashdot comment, June 7, 2002)
• This drug is to be made by poorly paid workers who cannot buy what they make and is to be sold to once highly paid workers who have lost their jobs. That is the crutch of the whole matter. (Poten & Partners Market Opinions, Oct. 17, 2003)
• We will be revisiting this topic shortly, as it is the crutch of the matter. (Financial Sense editorial, Dec. 17, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• “Can you djinn up a good Irish brogue?” (Michael Thomas, posting on soc.motss, 18 July 2005)
• “… and scientists were bitch-slapped around and told to djinn-up “facts” that supported the…” (link)
• “The military can’t meet its recruiting requirements nor the country djinn up enthusiasm for its adventures.” (link)
• “We’ll probably also want to djinn up a roster of membership, perhaps to post on the web site.” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Dave has checked out all the cutting-age training information on the Internet and elsewhere, but insists that he’s found nothing to alter the course he mapped out in the early ‘60s during his Muscle Beach days. (link)
• The revolution has magnified as the impact of research at the cutting age of science transfigures rural India. (TIFAC, India)
• “Trident Warrior is an exercise where we’re bringing together all the new and existing technologies, all the platforms and all the sensors, and the people who are trained in all of these,” said Capt. Landolt. “During the exercise, the staff is able to use this cutting age technology to react to realistic scenarios. It allows people to collaborate and it allows people to improvise; in this world that’s key.” (navy.mil, October 15, 2003)
• The amazingly rich historical legacy interweaved with cutting age technology leaves visitors to this city with so much to enjoy and explore. (Exercise Medicine Australia)
• That tools made of iron could retain a sharp cutting age longer made these more effective and efficient than tools made of stone. (NCCA, Philippines)
• It seems appropriate that a piece of music celebrating the 200th birthday of a city on the cutting age of science and technology should be orchestrated on a computer. (The Huntsville Times, June 19, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• And as they grow weaker and weaker, Big Business is highering these non-union workers for minimum wage. (rec.games.mud.diku, Jun 5, 1998)
• When kinds and young adults dont take jobs and complain about finding work yet every place I walk into is highering, you have problems. (aces hardware forum, May 18, 2004)
• Also, what Tom said is true take a good look at your highering practices. Make sure you are highering quality employees. (Business Owners Idea Café comment, April 30, 2005)
• Each year fewer good taxonomists exist. The old guys retire, and the universities and museums are highering new graduates with four or six years of experience learning how to do the genetic analyses but little or no experience at identifying the species from descriptions or herbarium/museum specimens. (rec.garden.orchids, Apr 26, 2002)