The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• “In this day in age when most students are only interested in themselves and their careers, this shows that some people still care deeply about education at Wesleyan,” Falbel said. (Wesleyan University Argus, Apr. 24, 2001)
• We’re in the day in age when you’re looking at the radio stations playing a lot of hard rock, rap and bubble gum pop music. (Univ. of Tennessee Daily Beacon, Apr. 8, 2002)
• There are many societal differences in today’s day in age as opposed to the Tudor England period. (Virginia Wesleyan College Marlin Chronicle, Oct. 1, 2004)
• “Overall, I’d have to give Phish the biggest influence credit, but that’s more because they defined what it is to be a band in our day in age,” Watkins said. (Univ. of Alabama Crimson White, Dec. 1, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Lying in her bed, she could have the doctors and nurses at her beckon call, either by pressing a button or feigning an outrageous symptom that warranted further attention. (Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Feb. 21, 2003)
• Religion majors: “You know King Solomon had hundreds of women at his beckon call. Would you like to be my 236th?” (Pacific Union College Campus Chronicle, Nov. 13, 2003)
• In fact the very day before the attacks, on September 10th, Attorney General John Ashcroft, at the beckon call of Bush, denied the request for money. (Susquehanna University Crusader, Apr. 23, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• If the battle continues to be neck-in-neck, the real campaigning for the Presidency may be even more interesting. (Univ. of Kentucky Daily Beacon, Feb. 12, 1996)
• Of all the experiments worldwide, those by the CDMS team and the Italian-Chinese team are considered to be neck-in-neck, in front of the pack. (UC Santa Barbara press release, Feb. 25, 2000)
• But Congressman Lazio polled in the 40-percent range with Hillary, making for a neck-in-neck race that had to be exciting enough, and giving Wolfson ample opportunity to unleash that New York emotion of his. (Duke University Alumni Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2001)
• “We needed to coordinate and graduate together because we are not flying everyone out here twice,” Norma says, adding that the stress of staying neck-in-neck with her sister doubled the ordinary tension of completing a dissertation. (Harvard University Gazette, June 6, 2002)
• The two appear to be neck-in-neck, as different national polls now show the race to be a statistical dead heat. (Stanford University Daily, Oct. 15, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Any time you visit our service desks, you will have the agreeable impression that helping the library and staying young are one in the same. (UC Berkeley, Annual Report of the Libraries, Fall 2001)
• It is misleading to consider “research and development” as one in the same, since they each entail a different primary focus. (Hopkins Undergraduate Research Journal, Spring 2004)
• I associate knowledge with happiness—they’re sort of one in the same for me. (College of William & Mary News, Sep. 23, 2004)
• The study also demonstrates that social isolation and feelings of loneliness are not one in the same. (Carnegie Mellon press release, May 2, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• The decisions, always well-intentioned and often thoughtful, however, reflect the composition of the Board, which is by in large made up of academics at large well-supported universities. (Population Association of America (PAA) Affairs, Winter 1995)
• First of all, governments by in large tend to be more pro-American than their constituents and public opinion, especially as represented by voluntary associations, unions, ONGs, etc. (The Internationalist, Princeton University, Apr. 13, 2003)
• But I do think that CEOs by in large are missing something important. (Ethics News and Views, Emory University, Jan. 28, 2004)
• You might spend your time on some grains of sand but by in large, they are unimportant to you. (Lyndon State College convocation address, Sep. 14, 2004)