The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• What I found most appealing about Mr. Schwarz is that he is very proactive about his cause. He makes a point to stay involved in the community and educate others, all the while helping himself. I immediately thought about the locust of control theory of psychology which states that there are individuals who have either an internal or external locust of control. Those individuals with an external locust of control feel that they are in less control of their life and that the control lay outside their autonomy. (Klinefelter Syndrome, student interview)
• When the locust of responsibility and control has returned to you, change is possible. (Bodybuilding.com)
• Business education programs that offer an innovative and interesting opportunity for students to pursue their personal interests and place the locust of control with the student will see a resurgence of student enrollment. (James L. Stapleton, Southern Illinois University)
• The distributed resources would be aligned with major academic divisions, but could be extended to other areas that were the locust of major support needs. (Bucknell University)
• What one has to see here is that the connection between governance and academic freedom is absolutely central to what we’re talking about, and that in a sense, the locust of decision-making is really what academic freedom is all about, that especially as issues become much more complicated. (UC Berkeley)
• With respect to averaging vectors and rotations, perhaps the most appropriate approach would be one that rejects your fundamental assumption — that is, maybe you shouldn’t average at all. Consider preserving a locust of vectors and their associated rotations, and instead think about ways to present your data which can express all this information, instead of “hiding” it as a mean. (link)
• The reason Benjamin chooses this particular time and place is because nineteenth century Paris was the locust of a booming capitalist epistemology. (Connecticut College)

Spotted in the wild:

• A distinction must be made between social morays (the ethics that prevail by means of the unwritten code of social contract at any point in a given civilization) and criminal law. (Shaksper.net)
• This ad is suggestive that men are dogs, are not worthy of wearing clothing and need to be tied to a woman who has the power. It also suggests that a woman can have more than one man. Both of these points contravene the social morays that are part of today’s society and involves discrimination of men as a lesser sex rather than as an equal. (Wilson's Almanac)
• The consequence was social uproar as new people entered the site on a whim after stumbling on long-dead threads and posted without reading FAQs or without knowing the complex set of social morays that the board requires. (Anil Dash)
• Buñuel and Dali are thumbing their respective noses at every conceivable social moray and value. (DVDBeaver.com)
• Though its setting is modern, the wry sensibility and gimlet-eyed deconstruction of social morays put SNOBS firmly in the tradition of Jane Austen, E.F. Benson (especially the “Lucia” series) and Anthony Trollope. (AOL Bookreporter)
• Most porn is not taboo Sevenblu…it is more of a social moray. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Is it time to split the SDF into the armed forces and a kind of peace core? Can you have a force that thinks of itself as do-gooding Samaritans as well as ready to repel armed aggression from, say, North Korea? (Japan Today, discussion thread)
• In addition, based on discussions with American Peace Core volunteers, the incidence of respiratory problems was common for many of the children due to the cold conditions they face on a daily basis. (Montana State University)
• Thus it was a night of madness, people ran amok, I threw money away like a rampant millionaire, attempted to out drink the Russians, had a massive rumbling ‘discussion’ with an American peace core worker who agreed with the current war, disappeared for an hour and worried everyone before i was found backstage interviewing several (hot) breakdancers, then we hitched home (very common thing to do in the cities there - you pay the driver a small fare) in a mafiaish Mercedes Benz and the driver decided to boy race our friend Denise, weaving and spinning all through the wide streets, whilst I hung out the window yelling obscenities in typical chummy New Zealand talk which strangely freaked out the Ukrainians. (link)
• During this time period he spent 2 years in the Peace Core in Dowa, Malawi, Africa working on the Malawi Public Health Project and 10 years later served as a staff physician on the Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Project Ocean Search Wuvulu Island, Papua New Guinea. (American College of Emergency Physicians)

Spotted in the wild:

• I had a baby 4 months ago and he thinks my depression is baby blues (postpardon depression). (Dr. Bob forum, Apr. 13, 2001)
• It is about 2 teenagers, the guy works in a shoe store and the girl is pregnant they tell their parents at Christmas time. They move into an old apartment building together, the teenage mother gets post-pardon depression. (Lifetime TV forum, Dec. 5, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Order enough seafood salad from your local deli and serve in small bowls lined with red lettuce, pastry shells, or phyllo cups. Sprinkle top with pepperica or sliced black olives. (link)
• Ingredients
  chicken wings
  garlic
  honey
  soy souce
  Pepperika (parenthood.com)
• “Halibut Royale”
  Ingredients:
  1.5 lbs halibut (steaks)
  1 cup white wine (I used 3/4 cup white grape juice & 1/4 cup white wine vinegar)
  2 tsp salt
  1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
  1/2 cup sour cream
  1/2 cup mayonnaise (I use light, no cholesterol mayo).
  1/4 cup minced green
  onions
  pepperika (sp?) (rec.food.cooking)