The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• The battle scenes are well done and one feels they are in the sub when the death charges are hitting the ocean bottom. (wkrc.com, book review, March 2005)
• I want to build a floating submarine plane. Are there any legal issues around that? I dont want the navy to drop death charges on me when I zip around underwater (doityourself.com forum)
• There was one time the destroyers were dropping death charges after sighting a German Submarine. (link)
• I’m not sure but I believe we also dropped a shallow pattern of death charges. (Phil Arneson's Action Report, 18 January 2001)

Spotted in the wild:

• I guess with him being 130 pounds soak and wet he wouldn’t understand. (prevention.com forum, Jul 6, 2004)
• “Last month, my apartment was so hot that I sleep most of the time during the day because I’m sick,” said resident John Lemieux. “But I get up in the afternoon. I’m drenched soak and wet. My chair’s soak and wet. My bed’s soak and wet.” (NBC 10 News, August 4, 2005)
• So, there we were both soak and wet and I was pissed. (getgirls.com, dating tips, February 23, 2004)
• The bus driver said the word “shit” and all the soak and wet passengers had dropped jaws planted firmly on their faces. (link)
• I have a few of all of these at my gym, but what really chaps my a** is the petite “skinny” girls that come in “hawaiian” and very pretty,, but they can’t weigh 100lbs soak and freakin wet! (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Hundreds of young astronauts are seeking gameful employment, and this 77-year-old self-promoting millionaire steals their jobs. (sci.sceptic, Oct 31, 1998)
• We all know that if his wife is gamefully employed, then each the husband and the wife could each have their $2,000 maximum yearly tax deduction provided they meet the percentage of earned gross income formula. (financialplanning.com, Aug 19, 2001)
• Quite often more stress is placed on the adult after puberty, with the current stressful period of having gameful employment, progressing in employment and marriage, child raising and the resulting continuing financial problems which causes stress of great magnitude. (Yahoo! Health groups, Sep 1, 2000)
• In the digital graphics age, one of the easiest things to neglect in our busy day is the critical backup of all the client files and databases we use to remain gamefully in business. (signindustry.com)

Spotted in the wild:

• A customer stated that he saw the bustboy pick up my camera. When I spoke to the manager I was giving the runaround stating that his employees do not steal. (Yahoo! Travel, June 14, 2005)
• He and the manager were too busy busting tables and not concerned with the temperature of the food and quality coming out of the kitchen! (travelchannel.com, restaurant review)
• If I don’t go this very instant, the guy busting tables will have more to clean-up than what’s in his job description. (link)
• I imagine that many hired hands perform very simple, very basic functions (the integrity that is Capitalism) from everything from busting tables to handing out free candy samples to obnoxious children from consumerist parents. (punkerslut.com, December 17, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• [an African American hair stylist advertises that they can do] “corn rolls for you.” (West Philadelphia local paper, Westside Weekly, 2-8 September 2005)
• “Hi, I really want to learn how to cornroll hair and add extensions to it.” (link)
• “With grain, a lot of eye make-up, or those ladies who corn-roll their hair like a lot of little braids, and hang Lifesavers and lights and buttons and …” (link)
• “I really want a crazy hair style like corn rolls but i have hair that is only the lenght of my chin.” (link)
• “Caramel Expressions, Yorktown, “VA, Virginia - Owner operated. Specialties include silk twists, pixie braids, box braids, micro braids, corn rolls, kin…” (bizyooo, Business Yellow Pages)