The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• That means that when they see the test results and they find their local school is just not up to stuff, they can choose to send them to another area where they do well. (Legislative Assembly of Ontario, House Debate transcript, Oct 8, 2002)
• One of the biggest of the flaws had to be the A.I. for the population that sometimes was just not up to stuff and would fail to properly fulfill their duties. (Express World, Apr. 12, 2003)
• Maybe the Microsoft software isn’t quite up to stuff for the job yet and so they are using beta’s. (NewsForge forum, May 13, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• Polyurethane artificial holloween pumpkin, United States Patent 6555188 (link)
• The next Americans Abroad is a Holloween drinks in a spooky pub (well ok, the cobwebs were already there and well… city types getting smashed can be a bit spooky). (meetup.com, Oct 2005)
• Holloween and pumpkin carving (link)
• Ok, so both Nike and Bape have released their Holloween edition kicks. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Armillaria mellea is not the brightest glowing species on agar culture, however on wood substrates, the mycelium is reported to glow much brighter. The phenomenon has been referred to as “foxfire” or “willow the wisp”. Armillaria is a pathogen of trees; whole forests can be wiped out he invading fungus, leaving “ghost” trees. (bioart.co.uk)
• Notice how the woman’s face is drawn with character and subtlety and contrast this with how her lower body is only suggested in a willow-the-wisp kind of way. (Mr Whistler's Art)
• For musicians, the willow-the-wisp of perfect sound quality is the last of the parameters that troubles us. (Musical Pointers, CD review)
• The hushed, scurrying strings of the first subject bring a ‘willow-the-wisp’ quality evocative of the flurry of fairies’ wings. (Music Teachers (UK), online journal, 2001)
• The letters trace an ongoing conversation in language that Emerson described as having a “willow-the-wisp quality” (Simmons 126), fragmentary and allusive as if “caught from some dream” (Simmons 1). (Janice Battiste, "A Good Aunt is More to a Poet Than a Patron: Mary Moody Emerson, a Model of Self-Reliance". WILLA, Vol. 5. Fall 1996.)
• I’ve also thought of some sort of ghostly apparition, in your face willow the wisp or something like that. (ghosts.org, Dec 6, 1998)

Spotted in the wild:

• This pedal is real value for money. I snobbed it at first because it didn’t have the BOSS or Digitech label on it. I almost put this on eBay because I thought I don’t have any use for it. I’m glad I didn’t. (Harmony Central, Aug 03, 2005)
• The Weavers have spent the entire episode annoying other teams, including snobbing the Aiellos and irritating the Schroeders enough to earn the nickname “Silent but Deadly.” (the Trades, October 15, 2005)
• “A person happened to meet somebody whom he previously had a bad encounter. The person cheerfully greeted the person good morning, which the other person promptly snobbed him. His friend asked him, “Don’t you feel slighted that you were snobbed? Then why do you continue to greet him knowing that he has done you wrong and would snob you anyway?” (Reflections of a Business-Driven Life, quote in blog entry, December 21, 2004)
• He snobbed me on AIM when I just IM’d him a simple “Aloha!” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Just one of those things… even if you’ve gone over the list hundreds of times you’re bound to miss some small Monday detail. (Good-Tutorials.com, blog entry, September 26th, 2005)
• I submit that Microsoft always tries their best to make things better, but overlooks some Monday detail that ends up shooting them in the foot. (Slashdot, comment, July 26, 2005)
• Later I found out it was a stupid Monday detail that messed my stuff up; I had typed in newline instead of newLine. (gr0m3r.com, Oct 28, 2004)
• I woke up to a world where the size of an enemy is described in microns and the depth of his hatred in religious beliefs.
  I went in to the Monday world of cheery platitudes, and heard, after shaking my head over the demise of the A’s, what is inexplicably known in these parts as “the Charlie story”. (American Politics Journal, Oct 19, 2001)