The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• The crutch of the matter is to abstract the real world problem to the point where we have all possible states of all variables in the equation. (Slashdot comment, June 7, 2002)
• This drug is to be made by poorly paid workers who cannot buy what they make and is to be sold to once highly paid workers who have lost their jobs. That is the crutch of the whole matter. (Poten & Partners Market Opinions, Oct. 17, 2003)
• We will be revisiting this topic shortly, as it is the crutch of the matter. (Financial Sense editorial, Dec. 17, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• “Can you djinn up a good Irish brogue?” (Michael Thomas, posting on soc.motss, 18 July 2005)
• “… and scientists were bitch-slapped around and told to djinn-up “facts” that supported the…” (link)
• “The military can’t meet its recruiting requirements nor the country djinn up enthusiasm for its adventures.” (link)
• “We’ll probably also want to djinn up a roster of membership, perhaps to post on the web site.” (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Dave has checked out all the cutting-age training information on the Internet and elsewhere, but insists that he’s found nothing to alter the course he mapped out in the early ‘60s during his Muscle Beach days. (link)
• The revolution has magnified as the impact of research at the cutting age of science transfigures rural India. (TIFAC, India)
• “Trident Warrior is an exercise where we’re bringing together all the new and existing technologies, all the platforms and all the sensors, and the people who are trained in all of these,” said Capt. Landolt. “During the exercise, the staff is able to use this cutting age technology to react to realistic scenarios. It allows people to collaborate and it allows people to improvise; in this world that’s key.” (navy.mil, October 15, 2003)
• The amazingly rich historical legacy interweaved with cutting age technology leaves visitors to this city with so much to enjoy and explore. (Exercise Medicine Australia)
• That tools made of iron could retain a sharp cutting age longer made these more effective and efficient than tools made of stone. (NCCA, Philippines)
• It seems appropriate that a piece of music celebrating the 200th birthday of a city on the cutting age of science and technology should be orchestrated on a computer. (The Huntsville Times, June 19, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• And as they grow weaker and weaker, Big Business is highering these non-union workers for minimum wage. (rec.games.mud.diku, Jun 5, 1998)
• When kinds and young adults dont take jobs and complain about finding work yet every place I walk into is highering, you have problems. (aces hardware forum, May 18, 2004)
• Also, what Tom said is true take a good look at your highering practices. Make sure you are highering quality employees. (Business Owners Idea Café comment, April 30, 2005)
• Each year fewer good taxonomists exist. The old guys retire, and the universities and museums are highering new graduates with four or six years of experience learning how to do the genetic analyses but little or no experience at identifying the species from descriptions or herbarium/museum specimens. (rec.garden.orchids, Apr 26, 2002)

Spotted in the wild:

• We will be able to read and write SMS messages, which even the literary gurus like Shakespeare and Milton couldn’t make head and tale of them if they were still alive. (link)
• everytime i watch dune i wonder how anyone could make heads or tales of the movie without having read the book. (plastic.com forum, May 22, 2005)
• Part of the reason I decided to chart this time around was to see if I could make heads or tales of the way the girls were conceived. (TheLaborOfLove.com, August 02, 2004)
• Trying to make head and tale of the post they had sent me (Speedy will never be the brightest bulb unfortunatly) I PMed back expressing my hate for not only SonAmy but also there Zealot behaviour. (sonicanime.net forum, Sep 19, 2004)
• She remains an outsider as a detached viewer of the hullabaloo but plunges into this commotion, to make head and tale of the story, so that She comprehends its impacts and implications. (link)
• Sometimes a helping hand is all you need to make heads or tales of a tough assignment. (speedypapers.com, academic cheating service)