The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• I always respond that she was the first one I called each time, but she was so diswrought over my sister she never heard me. (link)
• But comparing getting mugged for drug cash to being diswrought because you saw some lesbians making out is hardly a good comparison. (link)
• I AM a single father raising one of my three kids (14, 16, and 20). My daughter (16), is very diswrought over something right now, and we are going for a “pleasure” drive at 12:30 on a school night. We get along great, but occasionally there are a few bumps. (link)
• As his mother was emotionally diswrought, most of the care for the young child fell on other domestics of the Tower, who did their best to raise a fine young man. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• For most companies that offer traditional co-op advertising programs, very little is ever paid to the results of those programs and most typically begin the next year with a “rubber stamp” of the program from last year. Relatively little is done to analyze the performance – even for those who don’t take a “zero sum gain” approach to channel promotion. (link)
• I think that most economists would not regard the stock market as a zero-sum gain. (Game Theory Forum)
• Zero-Sum-Gain is an economics term used to describe a theory that says there is a finite and limited supply of wealth in the world and so the more you have the less I can have. […] God’s ways are not a Zero-Sum-Gain. Your blessing does not affect my blessing and mine does not affect yours. (Karateforchrist.com)
• The world is not a zero-sum game where America’s wealth comes at the expense of others. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• With our skills at intrusion, and the ability to wreck concentrated, disciplined havoc among computer systems, with said skills even possessing the ability to wreck chaos outside of cyberspace, it could be said that the possession of such skills is the equivalent, literally, of the militial skills of those historic knights. (link)
• This will wreck havoc with Lunatics and Werewolves, won’t it? (link)
• Mayor Michael J. McGlynn said over the past few years, the area has been assaulted with a number of difficult winters which have wrecked havoc on several of the city’s streets. He said he is in the process of putting together a list of roadways that have been hardest hit and which ones are in need of the most attention. (Medford Transcript, February 24, 2005)
• But in Southern California, the heavy rains have wrecked havoc. (San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, 2005)
• Like alien bugs from some futuristic sci-fi movie, the microbes literally chew metal and armour to pieces - in record time. Known as chemical metal-embrittlement agents, these are composed of substances that alter the crystal structure of metals, wrecking chaos with every mouthful. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• High winds coupled with blowing sand produced limited visibility and reeked havoc in Garza County yesterday afternoon. (link)
• Please do not use this to reek havoc in the 10th floor lab. (link)
• I, like most, despair that our system, which allows most parties elected to government without a true mandate (ie they don’t have much more than a 40% 1st preference vote which means that most electors didn’t want them in power!), to reek havoc in legislation when elected. (Rob Pillar, Family First Party candidate for Makin, AU)
• If this teenager wins the case (God forbid) it will be a licence for every trouble making “sacred young,” to reek havoc with complete impunity. (link)
• In my college years I was on the pill, and my senior year I stopped taking it. As is now more known with PCOD the skin and hair follicles can reek havoc when not regulated, and that year I noticed a few stay hairs on my chin, down my side burns, and the hair above my lip was getting a little darker. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Oh what joy, this hibiscus bloom has brought to me during this frigidly cold winter that we are experiencing. With the windshield factor, it is minus 41 below zero Farenheit in lovely southwestern Quebec. How I miss the warmth of the garden! (gardenbuddies.com)
• Obviously, it will be the coldest when crossing the pass, where strong winds can make the wind shield factor even much worse than the actual temperature. (link)
• On December 20, at noon, when this picture was taken on the McGill campus, it was -26 degrees with a windshield factor of -40. (link)
• Compute how cold wind feels. Every microclimate depends on several factors that make the particular location warmer and less damaging to plants during freezes. The most important is the windshield factor. The following chart gives you an idea of how much draft can reduce the temperature or how much of a difference a protective blanket will make. (link)