The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• The mellifluous, well healed Bavarians, deeply Catholic and geographically closer to Milan than Berlin are infuriatingly cynical. (BBC, Feb. 22, 2000)
• Their retro Chairman Mao jackets brought a few stares from the well-healed of Princeton. (Princeton Packet, May 23, 2001)
• Lee is eyeing one of those coveted six spots, despite the fact that his “pockets don’t run deep enough” to serve among the traditionally well-healed members, he said. (Yale Daily News, Sep. 25, 2001)
• But the reality of limited funding remains and is something that the leaders of the less well-healed school districts can understand. (Illinois Issues Online, May 2002)
• Is it asking too much for a few well-healed and well-placed individuals to risk their jobs? (The Crisis Papers, Jan. 2, 2004)
• When it comes to the economy, the antagonists to rural strife are not their well-healed metropolitan counterparts, but corporations, Dudley said. (Street News Service, June 13, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Useful at being a jack-of-all-traits, Friberg was given full visual artistic authority on set in almost every stage. (Meridian Magazine, Mar. 8, 2003)
• Another classic tenet in evolutionary ecology is that a generalist phenotype cannot excel in any particular function (i.e., a jack of all traits is a master of none). (Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, conference paper abstract, Jan. 2004)
• While it appears that the business development person has to be a jack of all traits, this is far from the truth. (Oaktree Research, May 20, 2004)
• Besides that, this program also hopes to develop the students into a jack-of-all-traits in other fields in addition to the academics. (doctorjob.com.my, July 28, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Krohn’s furled brow and witty demeanor sharply criticizes his son, Douglas. (Univ. of Houston Daily Cougar, Apr. 20, 1999)
• As the de rigueur firebrand villain Chauvelin, William Michals furls his brow and supplies a dosage of testosterone that gives the evening genuine pizzazz. (Cleveland Scene, Mar. 8, 2001)
• Frances furls her brow, because she doesn’t really want to marry one of her past boyfriends, move to California and work in the Industry. (Harvard Crimson, Dec. 6, 2001)
• As she furled her brow and continued her noontime walk, Jaworski called her friend on a cellular phone to vent. (New Britain Herald, CT, Mar. 21, 2003)
• He gave an affirmative nod and furled his brow. (Notre Dame Magazine, Autumn 2003)
• When she furls her brow and sprints her 100 meters at a pace appropriate for someone taking new steps, her long hair bounces behind her in a ponytail held by two scrunchies. (Pak Tribune, June 7, 2004)
• Butch’s game may have been as pretty as a personalized photo of Lyle Lovett, especially because he played with that furled brow and tried to look mean as he scored while losing his balance or was parked on his butt after taking a charge. (Capital Times, Madison, WI, Dec. 4, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Thanks for listening to my quorums about Seth. (NCD Tau Beta Sigma Secretary-Treasurer Report, 2000)
• But at the end of the day, no mistake should be made: the twelve fraternal members of the SEC are at a crossroads, trying to balance their collective commitment towards being the most celebrated football conference in the nation with eradicating its newfound image of being maverick institutions with no quorums about bypassing a few NCAA rules. (Acceleration Online, Oct. 4, 2002)
• I have no quorums about my disability. I’ve been wearing two artificial legs since 1947. (Lookout, CFB Esquimalt, Nov. 8, 2004)
• Today we say that our society has no quorums about peoples sexual preferences. (Woman On The Edge of Time, review)

Spotted in the wild:

• Flip chip manufacturing capability requires extreme “do diligence” in the areas of die bumping, substrate design, assembly methods for long-term reliability. (Northampton Community College course description)
• They also did not want to relieve the licensee of their responsibility to do its own do diligence in determining the caliber of people with whom it associated and contracted. (Minutes of the Nevada Assembly Committee on Taxation, Apr. 8, 1999)
• Six years later in 1975 Gross V. Lopez brought before the Supreme Court a student’s rights to do process (Durrett 23). (Houston Teachers Institute, 2004)
• According to the US law, arrest and imprisonment may not be imposed upon a citizen without do process including evidence of a crime and being proven guilty by a judge or jury using the evidence as proof. (Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 1996)
• Captain Mark Grazdan, assistant professor of military science, said most of the credit for Capehart’s experiences and life changes is do to Capehart himself. (Univ. of Tennessee Daily Beacon, Feb. 11, 1999)
• This is do to the remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha, which will be drifting westward out of Louisiana by Tuesday. (Texas Climatic Bulletin, Aug. 5, 2002)
• Though the Quest mode lets you kill a lot and you have to maintain your character throughout the game, the challenge just isn’t there; this is do to the fact that your character is roaming the halls and killing enemies without you really having to try too hard. (Univ. of Houston Daily Cougar, May 3, 1999)
• The second place title was not awarded do to the fact that judges agreed on a tie for first place between “Da Brothers” and Iantha Ussin, a senior journalism major. (Louisiana Tech University, The Tech Talk, Nov. 1, 2001)
• I’ll give credit where credit is do, because up until Monday night I refused to give the Lightning any type of credible chance. (Univ. of Northern Colorado Mirror, June 30, 2004)
• We certainly have to give credit where credit is do to Kent, but we didn’t play remotely good enough football today to win a college football game. (Univ. of Buffalo Athletics, Nov. 6, 2004)
• Jesus said give Caesar his do as leader and authority and give God His do. (Grace Christian Fellowship, June 20, 2004)
• James will get a great deal from some team that is able to give him his do. (Indiana University School of Physical Education and Tourism Management, Apr. 2005)