The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• “Daring-do indeed.” (Samuel Brantley, Zero Dark Thirty (Central Point OR: Hellgate Press, 2002), p. 47)
• “The tales that are narrated of my deeds of daring-do” (link)
• “… the cast of the MTV television show “Jackass” attained celebrity through such feats of daring do - and daring do-do - as diving into a pile of elephant …” (link)
• “This story was totally believable too, with no bragging or exaggerated accounts of heroics or daring-do.” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Flying Your Flag Half Mass
  When you are on the court and tragedy strikes or some unexpected disturbing event leaves you injured to the very core, you must step back and allow yourself to feel the pain. It is time to fly your flag at half mass. (DesignerLife Learning Cafe)
• The flag is flown at half mass, or in the middle of the flagpole, on Memorial Day. People do that to honor those Americans who died fighting for their country. (link)
• Has anyone been to Disney since the attack on the USA? I keep receiving e-mails that Disney refuses to fly flags at half mass. (The Magical Mouse forum, September 19, 2001)
• […]
  The book you have written and passed to your troops
  Is missing some lines and some very big loops
  A country in morning for loved ones that past
  A country that stands by its flag at half mass
  […] (Sgt. Moms)
• the flag flew at half-mass today
  to cover the scars, to cover the pain
  all the heads are hung in shame
  the flag flew at half-mass today
  […] (Almost Smart, Writer's Forum, Jan 24, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• But HCE is compromised by guilt, his nebulous sin in the park and his “insectuous longing” burden him with the stain of “original sin.” (The Modern World, analysis of "Finnegans Wake")
• Zues was a womanizer and had an insectuous relationship with his sister […] (Ultimate Central Forum, Oct 14, 2004)
• Sounded almost as if it was vaugely insectuous. I wondered if Luke was his brother or something, he being the guy in the photo. (link)
• The Text of Deuteromony 23:2 uses the Hebrew “mamzer” which does not mean “bastard.” To be a mamzer, the child must be born from an insectuous relationship specifically forbidden in Leviticus 20. (alt.christnet.christianlife, Oct 19, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• The public sector unions aren’t going to let a team of handfisted amateurs take their overtime away. (Jane Galt at Asymmetrical Information, blog entry, August 11, 2004)
• This goes back pre-9/11 to the transformation that Rumsfeld and people associated with him tried to do to the military, which hurt the army, helped some other parts. And he did it in a hand fisted way, which is his style, and he made a lot of people angry. (PBS, transcript of an interview with David Brooks, April 4, 2003)
• However, this is a bit of a handfisted way of making copies and is what we in the trade call “lossy”. (uk.media.dvd, Dec 7, 2001)
• However, the Bush Administration did not make quite that same argument. They could have but they didn’t. Was that just hand-fistedness? […] As indeed The New York Times has in a rather hand-fisted way confirmed for us now. (Hoover Institution, interview transcript, presenter Peter Robinson speaking, March 25, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Noxious fumes spurted from the oversized exhaust pipes as suped-up engines revved to deafening effect. (Chapel Hill News, Oct 22, 2005)
• And the current generation are technology hot-roders who want to supe up cars like the Prius — not with tail fins, but technology and hardware like advanced battery packs. (smartmoney.com, October 20, 2005)
• Participants ranging from suped-up SUVs to military behemoths will be graded on how well they can self-drive on rough road, make sharp turns and avoid obstacles — hay bales, trash cans, wrecked cars — while relying on GPS navigation and sensors, radar, lasers and cameras that feed information to computers. (Globe and Mail, September 28, 2005)
• Forget cars. The new hot think is suping up your chainsaw. (collegehumor.com)