The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• It is very easy to punish the guilty at the spurt of the moment but to pardon someone and try to extract the evil genius of one’s mind is one of the noblest acts stressed by Islam. (link)
• What’s the best city for wild, spurt of the moment partying? (TangerineMagazine.com)
• The second drawback is that the populace often votes on the spurt of the moment. (link)
• I am refering to those spurt-of-the-moment things people make up. (New Words from Foreign Languages)
• He very rarely acts on spurt of the moment ideas. He’s definitely NOT impulsive / or compulsive like the others. (link)
• My big brothers and their friends would sometimes, at the spurt of the moment, force-stop the elevator as we rode. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Chalk and erasers are in shore supply. (U Mississippi, "Improving College Teaching")
• This incident took place in early 1974, when TOW components were in shore supply. (ehistory.com)
• Leasing allows for the preservation of bank lines of credit, which can be kept unencumbered for shore term borrowing. (AC Capital Leasing)
• Medicare only provides shore-term benefits (a maximum of 100 days) for skilled care in a nursing home, following a three-day hospital stay. (New Life Styles Online)
• No matter what one thinks of the merits of the recall initiative, its shore-term implications for the California economy are negative because it adds additional uncertainty and instability to a political environment that is already chaotic. (California Healthcare Institute)

Spotted in the wild:

• Leaders Of Older Tri-state Suburbs Ban Together For More Support (WCPO Cincinnati, July 28, 2004)
• Ministers Ban Together to Protest Rappers Concert (KABC Los Angeles, Mar. 3, 2005)
• Women engineers ban together to stay ‘on track’ (Utah Statesman, Apr. 22, 2005)
• School personnel want more information on those assessments, including how much they cost, especially if several districts decide to ban together pay additional assessments to supplement the state tests. (Kentucky Post, June 8, 2005)
• In this ruthlessly individual sport this is the one day when friend and foe ban together to win a Classic event. (New Hampshire Union Leader, June 16, 2005)
• Musicians ban together for aid (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, July 2, 2005)
• Neighbors ban together, clear New Orleans streets of debris (KATC Louisiana, July 6, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• “After a twenty year school reunion, a group of partnerless women decide to re-evoke the solidarity of their teenage years and make a pack to procreate—en masse.” (link)
• “When Matt comes to in his hospital bed, he notices very quickly that although he is without sight, somehow, his other four senses have become very acute, particularly his hearing. He and father make a pack to go the long road, but the pre-Daredevil looses his Dad when Jack refuses to throw a fight.” (link)
• ” And therefore when they stand in fear of loosing any of those who are occupying their pews; they make a pack with Satan and cease not to bring riling acquisitions against the true men of God and the denial of the gospel of God and its true salvation as it was preached by Peter and the rest of the apostles on the day of Pentecost.” (link)
• ““You can’t make a packed with the abyss and not path the price!” the devil himself spat back at her.” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Americans are always in a rush, always looking at the clock, never waiting patiently. It’s a doggy dog world out there. (link)
• Only those nations survive in this doggy dog world that consider their land, language, culture and freedom above all petty differences of religion, social class, and economic standing. (link)
• the true matter is: it’s a doggy dog world out there and they’re all in it for the money. (link)
• The guard may have just been saying what he thought was expected of him, but you can certainly see how a doggie dog world leads to homophobia. (link)
• He took kids and taught them the ways to become successful in this doggie dog world, including me. (link)