The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Complainant issued a cease and decease letter to Respondent informing Respondent of the registration of the mark and common law rights Complainant claimed in the name “Blackmon Mooring.” (National Arbitration Forum: Steamatic, Inc. v. Hieu Nguyen)
• Valles was dragged into that controversy when he rejected a petition by miners for a temporary restraining order on a cease-and-decease order issued by Monkayo Mayor Joel Brillantes because of environmental concerns. (Philippine News Digest 25)
• It was noted that the Board had previously voted to send cease and decease letters and the Compliance Unit was directed at the meeting to immediately initiate sending letters out. (Maryland Board of Pharmacy - minutes)

Spotted in the wild:

• Cass Sunstein was in the office next store in his very first year of teaching and we spent quality time together that year. Now Cass is a “Visiting Fellow” of the Volokh Conspiracy. Welcome to the office next door, Cass! (Randy Barnett, Volokh Conspiracy, June 22, 2004)
• When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-store neighbor made after he left that first morning. (link)
• He needed photos of our next store neighbor’s garbage cans. (link)
• It’s one of those “urban nightmare stories” in which your newly befriended next store neighbor turns out to be a cold blooded mass bomber, and a mastermind who never loses. (link)
• The best thing I can say about ‘The Girl Next Store’ is that it had all the requisite components for a Stupid Teen Movie. (link)
• John Brooke is a tutor to the boy next store. The boy next store ’s name is Laury. (link)
• Hiding already in the alcove was a young man who lived next store to the March’s with his grandfather. (link)
• US 1880 Census show that Adam & Mary lived next store to Mary’s parents. (link)
• I think of the elderly couple who lived next store to me, so in love and wondering what was happening to them physically. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Enjoyed your clever and off-times amusing comments. (Rep. Sherry Boehlert on Talking Points Memo, Feb. 4, 2005)
• After her victory, the off-repeated claim that no Senator has ever lost an election over this issue can no longer be made. (Sen. Maria Cantwell press release, Mar. 25, 2002)
• In crafting this proposal, Treasury has disregarded the off-quoted observation of Judge Learned Hand that taxpayers are entitled to arrange their business affairs so as to minimize taxation and are not required to choose the transaction that results in the greatest amount of tax. (Testimony Before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Mar. 10, 1999)

Spotted in the wild:

• Or take another tact: is Penelope’s heroism portrayed as equal to Odysseus’s heroism? If so, why, if not, why not? (link)
• While we do not discount another merger attempt in the future, Surrey could take another tact due to its public status and become a consolidator of other B.C. credit unions. (link)
• Now that I understand your position a bit better, let me take another tact. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• A dandelion
  stretches in the warm sunlight
  by the bobwire fence (link)
• Dorothy Zinke Roberts as a little girl would walk over the fields with her brothers and sisters to go to school. On the way, they had to crawl under a bobwire fence and Dorothy would purposely tear any dress she didn’t like on that bobwire fence so as not to have to wear it again. (link)
• Here I go again with the dang flagging of the bobwire. (We have to have bobwire because of the cows). (link)