The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I remember doing an experiment in our physics lesson one that involved testing the radioactivity of different radioactive isotopes with a giga counter. Well after we finished a few of use stayed behind (nerdy I know) and played with the giga counter a bit. We tried different things and didn’t get much of a reponse. Then we put a mobile phone next to it, that was on standby and it affected the giga counter readings quite a lot. After that we got someone to call the phone and the giga counter went crazy. (Message board post, Apr 9, 2006)
• “What’s that noise?” asked Sam. Leia spun round. “That’s my giga-counter!” cried Leia. She ran into the cabin of the boat, and came out with an old giga-counter, a device used for detecting radioactivity, she pointed it towards the sphere and it started ticking faster. (Star Wars fan fiction)
• Below is my reply to our friend in Daewoo who suggested i use a Giga-counter to check if my balls were effected by the Microwave Underpants. (Blog post, August 17, 2005)
• The fact that the danger that keeps people out cannot be seen but heard through clicks on a giga-counter makes it all the more mysterious. (Windows Vista forum, March 26, 2007)
• I would visit Area 51 if I was you, there’s always the chance you would see something or find something interesting. Get/Take a giga counter too, and see where the most radiation is. (Message board post, Oct 23, 2004)