The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• The power of His mighty hand,
  Which saved my soul from Hell;
  Stands ready at my beacon call,
  My worries to dispel.
  (Poetry from the Psalms, 1994)
• God Who knows everything about us, is watching us, and crossing His arms, and shaking His head at our audacity at expecting Him to be at our beacon call whenever we want, while we just go our own little way, doing our own little thing, doing whatever we want, when we want. (FaithWriters.com, Mar. 19, 2004)
• Now that I am able to put my full concentration on EPI/PPT I am at your beacon call to answer questions, and assist you if you choose to join the best thing I have ever seen. (Money Talk forum, Nov. 4, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Yet it’s so pedal-to-the-medal for most of its runtime that it’s hard not to get caught up in the swirling adrenaline. (UCLA Daily Bruin, Nov. 1, 1996)
• Pedal to the medal, 90 mph, “I can’t hold her together much longer, captain” bluegrass. (Univ. of Mississippi Daily Mississippian, Mar. 24, 2000)
• Mr. Russert, I was so upset by the things my wife said, I put the pedal to the medal and one of these police officers came up behind me with the flashing light and said, ‘you’re going 40 in a 25 I want to see your license and registration.’ (American University commencement address, Tim Russert, May 8, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Lying in her bed, she could have the doctors and nurses at her beckon call, either by pressing a button or feigning an outrageous symptom that warranted further attention. (Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Feb. 21, 2003)
• Religion majors: “You know King Solomon had hundreds of women at his beckon call. Would you like to be my 236th?” (Pacific Union College Campus Chronicle, Nov. 13, 2003)
• In fact the very day before the attacks, on September 10th, Attorney General John Ashcroft, at the beckon call of Bush, denied the request for money. (Susquehanna University Crusader, Apr. 23, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Then they investigated my systems disk on their checker, SAM. And stripe me pink, SAM told them that the Utilities 2 disk had also been infected by the Scores virus. (MUESLI News, Mar. 1990)
• Well, stripe me pink and call me a llama - is this plastic pop at its most plasticy? (MVC user review, June 28, 2001)
• Aussie slang is so infectious. … Stripe me pink! (i swear!) (BootsnAll Travel Community, Nov. 4, 2004)
• stripe me pink! - expression of surprise, amazement, wonder. (JoyZine: Australia Decoded)

Spotted in the wild:

• The bottom line is the New York Times was hosted on its own petard, the politically correct snobs. (link)
• Come February. Maartan et al will be hosted on their own petard. There will be no where left to run, no one left to buy off, no one left to blame. (link)
• That is why turnaround stops once the side who started it realizes that they have just been hosted on their own petard and it is not worth the pain. (link)
• Too late to change it now. And no, I am not one of those writers that will go back and rewrite an already published book years later because I’m not happy with it.
  So what is a writer to do when you’re host on your own petard, and in print? (Laurell K. Hamilton, Ballantine Books / Random House)
• Unfortunately, a gunpowder explosion rather literally hosts him by his own petard. (link)
• Perhaps you should get more than just a “bit” [of education], and stop hosting yourself by your own petard in public. (alt.astrology)
• Whether it was WMDs, Terri Schiavo’s memogate, Abu Ghraib or now this, in their haste to castigate those on the other side other political spectrum, all they ended up doing was hosting themselves on their own petard. (link)