The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I mean the Labor Party opposed our tax plan didn’t they, they once did and now they’ve back flipped on their rollback or something or rather, I’m not quite sure. (Australian PM John Howard, interview transcript, Aug. 2, 2000)
• Or, I could perhaps tell you what I know best, that is, something or rather about the importance of art in life no less than in Liberal Arts Education. (T. Kaori Kitao, Swarthmore commencement address, 2001)
• So I have the P4 1.6, 512 megs of DDR, geforce 4600ti, and a nice soundblaster PCI something-or-rather. (PC Review forum, July 1, 2003)
• But if you are having salary sacrifice for payment of your electricity bills or something or rather, I don’t think it pertains. (Australian Industrial Relations Commission transcript, Nov. 11, 2004)
• It’s a wonderful morning Mr Walker and no doubt I will see you at the gates at Kirribilli House at some stage in the future on one of my early morning walks and you’ll be wanting my commentary about something or rather. (Australian PM John Howard, interview transcript, Apr. 30, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• It is dangerous and foolhearty to believe that we will preserve these values for ourselves without also promoting them actively and honestly abroad. (American University commencement address, May 19, 2002)
• Temperatures in the 40s with strong winds greated those hearty (or foolhearty?) enough to brave the weather and the terrain for a challenging afternoon in the woods. (Rochester Orienteering Club, Oct. 26, 2002)
• However, the Dowbrigade is not easily intimidated. Fool hearty would perhaps not be an exaggeration. (Dowbrigrade News, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, July 17, 2004)
• The application of purely technical analysis without consideration to either the possibility of an emerging fundamental, such is an upcoming Fed meeting, or critical earnings report, or, in the case of some produced commodities, labor strife etc., is fool hearty. (Futures Magazine, Dec. 13, 2004)
• THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING…BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. (NOAA Bulletin, Aug. 28, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• All total there are 13 Improvs and there are plans to open five more in the coming year, says Tony Baldino, president of Comedy Club Inc., the company that owns the Improvs. (Baltimore Sun, Jan. 10, 2002)
• There are also some good places for a quick sandwich, but all total, there are not that many restaurants in the four-block area we call downtown. (New Bern Sun Journal, NC, Nov 18,2004)
• Also Friday, there will be a one mixed breed race and four thoroughbred races. All total there are 46 entries. (Daily Interlake, MT, Aug 18, 2005)
• All total, the number of Guard personnel in the stricken states is about 40,000. (AP via Yahoo, Sep 4, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Although engineering school through him for a loop, van de Walle found that he excelled as a graphic artist. (Space.com, Mar. 11, 2004)
• “Who book?” means whose book and at first it through me for a loop, until I saw the kid holding a book. (Language Hat comment, Sep. 13, 2004)
• The first surgery back in 1984, however, through Bay for a loop for quite awhile, especially given the fact that he is an artist. (Main Street Newspapers, Nov. 24, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• “You lie whenever you feel like it, try to impersonate others, try to assassinate the character of truly stellar human beings like [NN] and [NN] and then have the gaul to accuse others of your behavior.” (link)
• “Next, there are some who assume because I, again, have the “unmitigated gaul” to ask “Why?” that I’m out to get them.” (link)
• “And they have the gaul to yell for Rove’s head? I am looking forward to the day when they frog march Durbin to Jail for this one!” (link)
• “I also had the joy of a particularly fat little Czech rider landing on top of me, he then had the Gaul to shout at me, …” (link)
• “How STUPID is it to look at the hundreds of awards [Michael Jackson] has won of a span of 30 years […] and **have the omnitigated gaul** to call him the “self-proclaimed, professed, or styled” King Of Pop?” (link)