The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Another segway into the introduction is to start it with a little anecdote (or story). (BookRags, How to Write a Five Paragraph Essay)
• Overall, this little book offers much as a solid segway into intro Perl programming for bioinformatics. (link)
• It was a small room, just next to the front desk. So, sometimes I’d catch a wink here or there and just drift off. This dream always segwayed into the next dream. (link)
• A prior degree of knowledge of both wine and wine politics is needed to get the best out of this film, as otherwise the shaky hand-held camera work, flitting from language to language (with subtitles) and relentless segwaying of one story into another makes the “plot” difficult to follow. (wine-pages.com)
• The second X-Files movie may or may not reveal straight undisputeable facts, but the last episode was still a great closer and segway into the movie, which I sure as hell can’t wait for. (allscifi forum, March 10, 2004)
• The rest of the paragraph should be spent arguing this one point. Don’t segway into another point. You want coherent writing, not chaos. (Izzy's Guide to Starting & Running an Underground Paper)

Spotted in the wild:

• Because Trust is a commodity. Very, very expensive. Not like a plasma TV screen, or a Hummer. But like a great-grandmother’s Bombay chest, or a Civil War journal. (link)
• These guys are in my opinion on par with the masters in furniture making from the past. […] Randy O’Donnell (what a great Bombay chest he makes) (woodworkersedge.blogspot.com)
• This is a French Bombay Chest with a cream and cocoa beveled marble top (classified ad)
• Absolutely gorgeous! The chest is created from solid wood and MDF and features resin legs. This hand painted design gives this Bombay chest the perfect touch of detail that your room needs. (shopnbc.com)

Spotted in the wild:

• She asked Dr. Rabianski to head a subcommittee to investigate the issue. Dr. Rabianski agreed and asked that the Committee discuss the issue even if it is a fate accompli. (Georgia State University Senate, P&D Committee minutes, Sep. 23, 1999)
• Thus a social order dictated by the ‘free’ market and yet, ironically, ‘determined’ by the globalised capital is fast imposing itself as a fate accompli. (Tribune of India, Oct. 14, 2001)
• “My reaction was they’re just giving them more time so they can take over more, that the military wing of the opposition can take over more ground in Haiti and create a fate accompli,” Kurzban said. (Democracy Now!, Feb. 25, 2004)
• Many thousands have worked tirelessly for decades in opposing (and fighting against) a merger with India or Pakistan as a fate-accompli. (Pakistan Observer, Apr. 28, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• And get ready for some fireworks between two of the most scintillating rookies in the NBA next week because Cleveland and Chicago face-off twice, meaning we get to watch Dajuan Wagner and Jay “Don’t Call Me Jason” Williams go mano-on-mano. (CBS SportsLine, Nov. 30, 2002)
• “Print this,” Chief Warner said. “The retiring fire chief, who is a senior citizen, is hereby challenging the younger police chief to a nine-hole match at the course of his choice, mano-on-mano,” with the police/fire trophy on the line. (East Bay (RI) Newspapers, Oct. 16, 2003)
• Surely Cheney considered the Rocky option before using the F-word to tell Sen. Pat Leahy what the VEEP thought of the Vermonter’s constant criticisms. I do not claim to be an expert on the F-word or its usage. Still, I would have say that Flipping the bird would have been a truly bush-league gesture in a small group of senators and one Frazzled vice president. This was mano-on-mano. It required more than symbolism. (Augusta Free Press, June 29, 2004)
• I spoke to Mike D’Antoni as he just came out here, the Suns head coach — he said, “We are playing mano on mano.” (ESPN sideline reporter Jim Gray during Game 3 of the NBA Western Conference Finals, May 28, 2005)
• “Look man we talk bout this later, mano on mano. You dig?” Larry offered, hoping to quell the tension. (The Basketball Team #4 by Parker/Paladin, 1995)

Spotted in the wild:

• “Linda’s dream for the IE Standard is to put in it only what is needed by at least one destination. She wants at all costs to avoid the T. G. lazy-fare to pass through and let the destination figure out what to do.” (Stanford interoffice memo, 17 December 2004)
• “Lazy-Fare Economics. If you’ll permit me to diverge from the ever-so-interesting topic of the social mal-adjustments and sexual deviancies of…” (link)
• “Lazy Fare Capitalism is not enough. In our collaboration called government we must be a responsible consumer, employer and…” (link)