The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• “I think it’s due to the new constitution radification that is about to happen.” (e-mail from a soldier correspondent in Iraq, reported by Rudolph)
• “The Finance Committee would request that the board radify their action. … Ben Click moved and Ray Hanna seconded the motion to radify the action of the …” (link)
• “Then and only then will the membership VOTE to radify or not radify the TENTATIVE AGEEMENT.” (link)
• “… and works to ascertain God’s leading as to whom should fill certain positions within our congregation, the full congregation radifies these appointments in …” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Sunny, the level-headed one of the four, agrees to do the show for a lack of anything else to do, at first using it to buy her time while she finds a real job. (The Celebrity Café, book review, Mar 25, 2004)
• I’m just buying my time until I have to go get ready for work right now. (link)
• This car is the biggest piece of unreliabile junk I’ve ever seen. I’m just buying my time until I can get another car. (alt.autos.dodge, Dec 8, 2000)
• I will just keep doing the best I can, and buy my time until we can open up our own damn store. (link)
• She was a Data Angel. And that meant she was an expert on lurking in the shadows, buying her time until she could make her move. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• “My lips are steeled.” (Degrassi television show, seen 27 August 2005)
• ” Word on the street is a friend of mine went drinking with this chap. I must know more, but everyone’s lips are steeled. Ahahahahahah. Damn them!” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• The Internet is a powerful tool for businesses today, and it is important to understand the inherit security risks when leveraging this technology. (Addison-Wesley articles, May 6, 2005)
• (It should be parenthetically acknowledged that the eye itself produces an inherit distortion of nature. In nature parallel lines never intersect; in the image beheld by the eye parallel lines always intersect - as in the image of receding railroad tracks). (Wikipedia, "Graphical projection", revision as of 16:00, 2 August 2005)
• This lack of comprehension may have the potential to be catastrophic on the policy level, for although the United States is not colonizing Iraq, it is its inherit responsibility as the intervening power to maintain some semblance of a stable society. (PINR, 26 August 2003)
• classic black and white stark contrasts shows an inherit belief in a clear seperation between good and evil. (link)
• When Simon dies it shows the death of spirituality and a foreshadowing of what the inherit evil in man will do to nature later on. (Essay Depot, May 10, 2005)
• Although it looks nice at first glance, while reading these replies, I think it has an inherit design flaw… (Invision Power Board forum, Aug 2, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• The famous Nick Cohen of the Observer (pro-war apologist) has launched a virile attack against all us good people in one fowl swoop! (Indymedia UK - All mouth and no brains!)
• If you don’t like musicals, then this is for you too, as you can get them all out of the way in one fowl swoop. (Ballet.co 2002 Edinburgh Festival Report)
• This is not to say that Apple’s run perfectly all the time. It just means that they are less prone to lose all of your data in one fowl swoop like with PCs. (Useless Knowledge Mag - Shoulda Bought An Apple)