The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• She has NO TACK. Seriously. She makes fun of her kids when they are going through puberty. (link)
• I went and confused Seamus and myself. I don’t know how Fred does that so well. Oh well, he has no tack. Anyways, I found out who Seamus fancies I think. (link)
• That said, if you do it and you get far enough, it couldn’t hurt your career! Just bear in mind that although Simon Cowell is brutally blunt sometimes… he is generally right. He just has no tack or manners! (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Historic farms were self contained and self supporting consisting of different tracks of land. (link)
• Moreover, there are huge tracks of idle land in the country that is owned by individuals who inherited them from their predecessors. The unfortunate thing about these tracks of land is that they have been fenced off making it impossible for anyone to utilise them – in any case the lawyers would advise the owners not to let others use the land and to avoid the passing of ownership by adverse possession, etc. (link)
• Environmentalists also demand that vast tracks of land be put into wilderness areas without roads and prohibit vehicles of any sort. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• “Growing up in the Jim Crow south, Brother Julian was only eligible for education until the eigth grade. However, he graduated valevictorian with Phi Beta Kappa honors from DePauw University.” (link)
• “I get straight A’s all year without trying. I’m the Valevictorian of a private school. I’m in highschool. I win.” (link)
• “I know one teacher was the a valevictorian or however it’s spelled, and another gave up a lucritive banking career to teach.” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• It is ironic that having rejected both versions of Pelagianism as hearsay, the Roman Catholic Church later condemned Augustinianism as well! (Southern Hills Evangelical Free Church, April 26, 2004)
• In the end, he was called before the Council of Constance under a promise of safekeeping but was nonetheless tried for hearsay and burned alive. (Society for Creative Anachronism, Last Updated: 2004/05/20)
• Claims of witchcraft and hearsay — crimes of an unimaginable level in the days of these settlers are today irrelevant and silly. (Yale University, Austin Carlos Gormley Prize Debate - Fall 2004 - transcript)
• The history of the Unitarian Church began in Europe. In the 1500s a man named Miguel Servet, (or Michael Servetus) a doctor, geographer, and editor, wrote several books questioning the validity of the trinity and infant baptism. He was subsequently burned at the stake for hearsay by John Calvin, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation. (essortment.com)
• Not long ago the Missouri Senate Lutheran had a hearsay trail. Their executive minister made the serious mistake of joining in an interfaith worship service following the September 11th destruction of the Twin Towers in NYC. He was tried, convicted and taken out of office. (All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Kansas City, Rev. Jim Eller, August 4, 2002)

Spotted in the wild:

• What I don’t understand is why all of these really gun-ho patriotic writers here aren’t in the military. Putting themselves on the actual firing line for the country and what they believe in. (History Channel forum, Mar 9, 2005)
• A gun-ho police officer put a gun to the head of the tube train driver, last Friday afternoon, at Stockwell Station, in the moments the innocent Brazilian man was shot dead on the train. (Jon Ronson forum, Jul 25, 2005)
• Everybodys gun-ho……but have you actually shot someone? (Brazil 24/7 forum, Nov 13, 2003)
• Remember middle east metality is vased an eye for an eye. There is another culture, with other values and sometimes, the US get too gun-ho, this is turning into another Vietnan. (DR forum, April 22, 2004)
• My next point i do not support American policies all the way, there are things that they do which i could never agree with. I don’t like the fact that their military forces are so gun ho. (Kungfoo.com, Nov 22, 2003)
• And age appears to be a significant factor. Middle aged people are more gun-ho for going it alone with 38.1 percent of those aged 36-54 in favour while among the 18-35s only 17.9 percent want to break the British link while 69 percent are against. (The Royal Gazette (Bermuda), August 05, 2005)