The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I have come out of the Auckland winter so this cool court which takes a shot and lets the ball die when it is manner from heaven for me. (Cathay Pacific Squashtalk, Aug. 25, 2001)
• When you get messages like this repeatedly, and your Bank Account is empty, with outstanding bills for you to pay, your first instinct would be to get it and say thank God for the ‘blessings and manner from Heaven’. (Nigeriaworld, Mar. 21, 2002)
• To you and me, the money means very little, but to a poor person this will be manner from heaven. (Africa Economic Analysis, 2003)
• For the Opposition Leader, Simon Crean, the words of the American President have been manner from heaven. (ABC (Australia) radio transcript, Feb. 11, 2003)
• I think Bush has exploited Al Qaeda for foreign policy and electoral objectives - and Al Qaeda have exploited Bush, who’s Crusade gaffs and images of Abu Gharaib and collateral damage from Iraq must have seemed like manor from heaven. (Uplink forum post, July 16, 2005)
• For a quarter of a century, Cameroonians were waiting for political and economic manner from heaven but all in vain. (Cameroon Post reader comment, Dec. 13, 2005)
• The Children of Israel in Exodus chapter 16 forgot God’s goodness and power and complained that Moses brought them into the wilderness to kill them but God provided them with manner. […] So too did the people of Israel - they were provided for with Manner from Heaven in Exodus chapter 16: 4 - 9. (Grenada Today, sermon by Pastor Stanford Simon, Feb. 11, 2006)
• This Best Buy information is treated like manner from heaven for those of us bent on emulating scrooge! (Whatprice.co.uk)

Spotted in the wild:

• Every track on albums such as “Controversy,” “1999,” “Around The World In A Day,” “Parade,” etc was not floorless. (alt.music.prince, Sep. 11, 1997)
• I have a friend who is a floorless dj and shares my love for breakbeat. (uk.music.breakbeat, Sep. 15, 1999)
• Your logic is floorless. (alt.recovery.na, Jan. 21, 2000)
• I don’t think anyone expected the floorless play achieved by Spurs. (alt.fan.scarecrow, Jan. 24, 2002)
• They were good, for me some were a bit obvious in terms of the imagery but the execution was floorless and I love anything that you can’t quite work out how it’s made so perfectly. (Stuart Semple blog post, Sep. 14, 2005)
• Dave Haley’s drumming was floorless and fast as fuck!! (Beb's Space blog post, Mar. 30, 2006)
• Her [black belt] grading went really really well. Her patterns were floorless, the self developed was sweet, terminology was spot on and she broke all her boards!! (Captain Ordinary blog post, Apr. 7, 2006)
• I have found from exprience the Swedes along with other Northern Europeans and the Dutch are excellent English speakers in most cases with a floorless accent that I have often mistaken them for native British speakers. (Antimoon English forum post, Apr. 16, 2006)

Spotted in the wild:

• By the way, I went the Boingo concert on November 1. It was good! The marsh pit went crazy over “Insanity” and “Dead Man’s Party.” (alt.fan.oingo-boingo, Nov. 3, 1994)
• Today, the plaintiffs played the 30-second ad tune, titled “Mosh Pit 2″ by its songwriter (and repeatedly called “Marsh Pit” by Judge Henry Hupp). (E! Online, May 7, 1997)
• i turned on m t.v and it looked like a documenty on marsh pits and slug fests. […] all i remembered back in the days when u went into a marsh pit all u could find were fat chicks pierces and tatooed all over talk about taking that to the next level and starting a health club that teaches u things to do in a marsh pit. (Lafoot blog post, May 5, 2002)
• Right now when all the 7th grade students enter the building or return from lunch the scene in the halls reminds one of a marsh pit at a rock concert. (Bedford (NH) School District Annual Report, Feb. 10, 2005)
• It was like a marsh-pit at a No Doubt concert, only thing there were not only people, but cars/bikes/scooters/autos also in the marsh-pit. (rec.sport.cricket, Mar. 28, 2005)
• I knew there would defiantly be a marsh pit but yet again another crowd surfer only hit me once. (Stupid-Boy forum post, Mar. 22, 2006)
• many ppl who marsh pit can dance. but i have been in many a pit where each and every stupid, wanna-be-punk-rock-jock in there thought that the point of marshing was to hit and push as many people as they could, before getting knocked over. (UTRave.org forum post, Mar. 26, 2006)

Spotted in the wild:

• They investigated wind power, but the anemometer reading at their farm showed average winds of 5 miles an hour, which is not enough to justify a wind turban. (California Materials Exchange, Last updated: August 26, 2005)
• His approach is to use a dual system of a gas turban and a steam turban to create energy in the power plant. (Jewish Virtual Library, Cooperation Between Israel and the State of Utah, 2006)
• I know you wanted to initially to put a wind turban on a hill on your property and just sort of give the electricity free away to the town. (CNN, rush transcript, December 23, 2004)
• A representative from Plain States Energy met with the County Board to give an overview of a wind Turbans project in the northern part of Todd County. (Independent News Herald, Legal Notices for the Week of April 12, 2006, Minutes of the Meeting of the Todd County Board of Commissioners held on March 7 & 13 2006)
• You have been most kind in helping locate certain items that can be more effective at Antique Acres than at most other shows like an old Hurdy-Gurdy water powered paddle mill that powered a gold mine stamping mill, a 12 inch water powered Pelton wheel, and a 6 inch water Turban wheel. (Gas Engine Magazine)

Spotted in the wild:

• He is a ten year professor and takes advantage of it. (RateMyProfessors.com, April 25, 2006)
• Though I am now a practicing attorney and a ten year professor of management, I still subscribe to and read Science News. (White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, meeting transcript, January 23, 2001)
• I’m also 46 tommorrow, so to pursue this would not be with the idea of a ten-year track position obviously. (Clayart forum, March 27, 2000)