The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Erika Hauberg Lunbra (BFA ‘91) directed Princess and the Pauper and Jack and the Bean Stock with K-5 graders in an after-school program at the YMCA. (Ohio University School of Theater alumni news, May 1998)
• Maher compares Jack and the beanstock to the story of Jonah. (Conservative News Feeds, Feb. 18, 2005)
• The sheaf was sort of X-rayed. It looked like a corn stock and also an ear of corn . . . enormous. (Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Interview with Lowell Houser, July 31, 1964)
• An oblong pumpkin carved in the semblance of a Volkswagen Bus was judged to be the “Most Functional.” It had four small gourds as wheels, a corn stock exhaust pipe and a peace sign carved on its roof. (SUNY New Paltz Oracle, Nov 4, 2004)
• There are people who do cyber stocking, there are people who want to send you messages—even if it is not a virus—who want to prey on you or prey on young children. (Hearing transcript, House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, May 10, 2000)
• A man from Australia was found guilty of cyberstocking his ex-girlfriend who is from America. (UMass Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution, May 16, 2004)
• He’s been cyber stocking me for three months. (Canucks Central forum, Nov. 23, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• It also donned on me that Chico is the perfect town to host the festivities. (Cal State Chico, The Orion, Jan. 27, 1999)
• It donned on me as the students were singing, that this is one of only a two places in this country where every participate has a current temple recommend, which is one of our requirements for acceptance. (Steve & Bette Gibson, BYU Center for Entrepeneurship, Nov. 12, 2000)
• The song marked a very emotional time at the concert in which, for the first time, it truly donned on many of the fans in the audience that this was going to be the last time they ever saw the band live. (Univ. of Notre Dame, The Observer, Dec. 5, 2000)
• The Oilers are playing tonight and it dons on us that the cab driver has (conveniently) misunderstood which stadium we want to go to. (TSN Magazine, Nov. 19, 2002)
• But as I walked back to the couch and the movie I was watching with my family, it donned on me the Red Cross rarely, if ever, solicits donations over the phone. (Columbia Star, SC, Feb. 25, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• I just could not figure out how to get better. I would dry fire, practice, all for knot. (Brian Enos forum, Dec. 17, 2004)
• They need to get another single out soon or this thread will be all for knot. (Aimee Mann message board, June 7, 2005)
• He said India’s nuclear tests have strategically changed the situation and world community should decide as to how to cope with it. “Non-proliferation efforts have come to knot, they are shattered,” he added. (Associated Press of Pakistan, May 15, 1998)
• If by chance, one of your ribs is yanked off your side, no matter what the doctors do to make one normal, it will all come to knot. (Mutation Workspace, Sep. 9, 2003)
• We think that the transitional institutions will come to knot unless there is genuine reconciliation, both at the political and social levels. (Center for Research & Dialogue, Somalia, Sep. 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• I wonder if they’ve changed the time of year of the sale — I certainly don’t recall that the little lasses had to freeze themselves for their cause, hocking cookies outside of supermarkets in the middle of the *winter*. (soc.motss, Jan 19, 1999)
• Most of these courses are simply recruiting grounds for the various academic departments — storefront windows where they hock their wares to wide-eyed freshmen and sophomores, trying desperately to convince them that what they have to offer is more valuable and useful than what’s being sold next door. (Univ. of Michigan Review, Mar 31, 1999)
• He usually heads out to his “home base” in the U-district, although he occasionally goes up to Capitol Hill to hock his wares on Broadway. (Univ. of Washington Daily, Nov 29, 1999)
• He’s hocking some video tape on his website. (rec.aviation.piloting, Aug 9, 2000)
• Even the street venders have relocated to Flushing, Queens to hock their wares. (NYU Portfolio, May 12, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• As you enter my yard, I don’t have the archway as I did last year. This year I have a rot iron gate that is set up diagonally with the walkway that runs up to my porch. (link)
• Reasonably priced, unique rot iron pieces are the specialty at Mexports. (H Texas Online)
• I hesitated for a few minutes as I stared at the rot-iron gate. […] As we parked the car and got out, we made our way to the rot-iron fence that we came to a few days before. (link)
• Plastic flowers in a rot iron pot (link)