The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Your gross stupidity and parochial in-bred attitudes are alarming — even for a right-wind nut (Right Wing Nut House, blog comment, May 3, 2005)
• His government was preceded by a left-wind government who attempted to negotiate with the Palestinian side and their answer was a huge outbreak of violence. (Political Crossfire forum, Oct 17, 2004)
• The only good thing that will come out of this being substantiated is being able to watch the wind nuts try to spin it. (USCHO forum, July 2, 2005)
• No, this has nothing to do with a “good ole boys club” so you left-wind feminists can calm down. (The Chronicle of Higher Education, forum post, Nov 29, 2004)
• Catholicism and right-wind politics expurge any serious debate on this issue. (Guardian News blog, comment, February 22, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• “The dye is cast. The people will speak and I am hoping that the outcome will be an MDC victory,” he told reporters. (CNN, March 31, 2005)
• Once the PR and marketing dye is cast, what’s a creative person to do? (OzOnline)
• There are dead suns, smoldering suns, and lit suns, and the dye is cast in this matter when the suns are first formed. (ZetaTalk, Jul 15, 1995)
• No, the media will make sure that the public knows good and well who Wes Clark is by the time the dye is cast. (Pipeline, blog entry, September 16, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• And in fact people who have post-dramatic stress disorder probably experience some form of allostatic load because of their over-reactivity to things that don’t bother normal people. (ABC.net.au, interview transcript, April 13, 1998)
• On Oct. 3, crown attorney Steve Coroza expressed his concern that information submitted to his office late last week claiming Maodus suffers from post dramatic stress disorder ( PDSD ) could weigh heavily on the case — and as a result asked the judge to push back the date for trial. (The Orangeville Banner, Oct 7, 2005)
• If you know of anyone that I can get Zanax from (I cant sleep the last year due to post dramatic stress syndrome) let me know. (RxList message board, 7 February 2004)
• the stress that caused the post dramatic stress disorder occured last year while he was in school […] (alt.support.anxiety-panic.moderated, Nov 8, 2003)
• About Flashbacks… I know it’s sort of like reliving the high for a little bit… sort of like post dramatic stress syndrome that Vietnam Veterans get and shit…. and I’ve also heard that LSD Flashbacks are incredibly rare. (alt.drugs.pot, Aug 16, 2002)

Spotted in the wild:

• I was passing the Sheraton in Baghdad where I am currently working and found these kids playing with the barred wire which is supposed to stop pedestrians. (InterAction, photo caption, 2004)
• The impenetrable barrier of briars, undergrowth and barred wire. (Fellowship of Isis, 2003)
• Beyond the trenches, at a grenade throws distance, lay the barred wire entanglements and beyond that the narrow strip which divided the opposing trenches “no man’s land”. (Bandon War Memorial Committee)
• A family party of Stonechats used the barred wire fence as a base for sorties into the rushes. (Stephen North's blog, September 19, 2003)
• The helicopter hesitated to turn, started to turn east, drifted north, hooked a barred wire fence with the right side skid, and lost control. (National Transportation Safety Board (USA), incident report, Feb 2000)

Spotted in the wild:

• We see the European Union and NATO as complementary and mutually perfecting each other, the whole mark of the European Union is prosperity and that of NATO is security. (link)
• However the membership carries with it a wholemark of high professional standard and high professional education (BCS accreditation of courses and set of exams) and numbers of companies require membership of the BCS from their employees. (link)
• Literary analysis, explication de texts, essay writing, in depth class discussions are the wholemark of this course. The year culminates in taking the literature Advanced Placement examination. (Greenhills School, French V AP Literature)
• Graham himself epitomized the classy Cas tag that has long been the wholemark of that club. (World of Rugby League, May 23, 2005)
• What I have done below is outlining some of the observations I made in terms of what had transpired in this highly regarded alliance in areas of trade and currency exchanges between the two countries prior to the resumption of hostilities that had the wholemark of being aborted from its inception; reflecting on the outcome of the EEBC’s border ruling and sharing my own thoughts as to where we are going from here. (link)