The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• We wondered would Micko wring the changes at half time but the team emerged untouched and within minutes looked to have repaid the manager’s faith in them. (link)
• After making three or four positional changes during the interval Camross began to wring the changes bringing on three substitutes. (link)
• Other ingredients can be used to wring the changes. I sometimes add some black pepper or basil after it’s done. (link)
• Buy the album. Don’t expect to love it immediately, it is unique songwriting - you have to learn to ‘wring the changes’ & then WOW. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Ok here comes the part where I wanted to reach through the phone and ring her neck… The MA rudely informs me that she doesn’t have time to call everyone with normal lab results, however the klincher was my second ANA was still positive, but everything else came back negative. (link)
• She hated to move from the position she was in, but she knew she had to or Mac would ring her neck. She carefully tried to sneak out from under Dillon’s arm only to have it tighten around her waist. (link)
• I must say, while like all good Americans, I’d like to ring his neck, the tape is just plain pathetic. (link)
• “Bastard! Pig!” The tiny fists flew again. “Pig! Bastard! I ought’er ring your neck like a scrawny Sunday chicken!” (link)
• We want to do something besides ring our hands, so we invent symbolic gestures. (link)
• “The current situation allows them to furrow their brow, ring their hands, gnash their teeth but not do a dadgum thing about it,” he said. (LA Times, July 4, 2005)
• These cry baby hand ringers of the left are nothing but agents of our enemies have should be locked up for treason for aiding and abetting the enemy during time of war! (link)
• After more than two years of silent hand-ringing over the occupation and war in Iraq, a series of resolutions and amendments are beginning to open a debate in Congress. (American Friends Service Commitee, June 21, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Are you a complete idiot? It was spelled out to you in big type. The term “you reap what you sew” It means one obtains as a reward that which they follow. (link)
• Reap what I sew (not sow, that’s a pig). Another old church cliche that you heard somewhere. If I reap what I sew, then I will be a millionaire because I have invested alot of money in stocks. (link)
• One must reap what they sew. But, may one also reap what they have not sewn? (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• “In general, the speed of mass communication mitigates against exploring an issue carefully…” (L.A. Times, quoted by Garner)

Spotted in the wild:

• “In Washington, the White House issued a statement that deplored the Nigerian government’s flaunting of even the most basic international norms and universal standards of human rights.” (NYT, 11 Nov. 1995, cited by Garner)