The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Hundreds of young astronauts are seeking gameful employment, and this 77-year-old self-promoting millionaire steals their jobs. (sci.sceptic, Oct 31, 1998)
• We all know that if his wife is gamefully employed, then each the husband and the wife could each have their $2,000 maximum yearly tax deduction provided they meet the percentage of earned gross income formula. (financialplanning.com, Aug 19, 2001)
• Quite often more stress is placed on the adult after puberty, with the current stressful period of having gameful employment, progressing in employment and marriage, child raising and the resulting continuing financial problems which causes stress of great magnitude. (Yahoo! Health groups, Sep 1, 2000)
• In the digital graphics age, one of the easiest things to neglect in our busy day is the critical backup of all the client files and databases we use to remain gamefully in business. (signindustry.com)

Spotted in the wild:

• A customer stated that he saw the bustboy pick up my camera. When I spoke to the manager I was giving the runaround stating that his employees do not steal. (Yahoo! Travel, June 14, 2005)
• He and the manager were too busy busting tables and not concerned with the temperature of the food and quality coming out of the kitchen! (travelchannel.com, restaurant review)
• If I don’t go this very instant, the guy busting tables will have more to clean-up than what’s in his job description. (link)
• I imagine that many hired hands perform very simple, very basic functions (the integrity that is Capitalism) from everything from busting tables to handing out free candy samples to obnoxious children from consumerist parents. (punkerslut.com, December 17, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• [an African American hair stylist advertises that they can do] “corn rolls for you.” (West Philadelphia local paper, Westside Weekly, 2-8 September 2005)
• “Hi, I really want to learn how to cornroll hair and add extensions to it.” (link)
• “With grain, a lot of eye make-up, or those ladies who corn-roll their hair like a lot of little braids, and hang Lifesavers and lights and buttons and …” (link)
• “I really want a crazy hair style like corn rolls but i have hair that is only the lenght of my chin.” (link)
• “Caramel Expressions, Yorktown, “VA, Virginia - Owner operated. Specialties include silk twists, pixie braids, box braids, micro braids, corn rolls, kin…” (bizyooo, Business Yellow Pages)

Spotted in the wild:

• I mean the Labor Party opposed our tax plan didn’t they, they once did and now they’ve back flipped on their rollback or something or rather, I’m not quite sure. (Australian PM John Howard, interview transcript, Aug. 2, 2000)
• Or, I could perhaps tell you what I know best, that is, something or rather about the importance of art in life no less than in Liberal Arts Education. (T. Kaori Kitao, Swarthmore commencement address, 2001)
• So I have the P4 1.6, 512 megs of DDR, geforce 4600ti, and a nice soundblaster PCI something-or-rather. (PC Review forum, July 1, 2003)
• But if you are having salary sacrifice for payment of your electricity bills or something or rather, I don’t think it pertains. (Australian Industrial Relations Commission transcript, Nov. 11, 2004)
• It’s a wonderful morning Mr Walker and no doubt I will see you at the gates at Kirribilli House at some stage in the future on one of my early morning walks and you’ll be wanting my commentary about something or rather. (Australian PM John Howard, interview transcript, Apr. 30, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• It is dangerous and foolhearty to believe that we will preserve these values for ourselves without also promoting them actively and honestly abroad. (American University commencement address, May 19, 2002)
• Temperatures in the 40s with strong winds greated those hearty (or foolhearty?) enough to brave the weather and the terrain for a challenging afternoon in the woods. (Rochester Orienteering Club, Oct. 26, 2002)
• However, the Dowbrigade is not easily intimidated. Fool hearty would perhaps not be an exaggeration. (Dowbrigrade News, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, July 17, 2004)
• The application of purely technical analysis without consideration to either the possibility of an emerging fundamental, such is an upcoming Fed meeting, or critical earnings report, or, in the case of some produced commodities, labor strife etc., is fool hearty. (Futures Magazine, Dec. 13, 2004)
• THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING…BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. (NOAA Bulletin, Aug. 28, 2005)