The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• And long behold (as it could only have been guessed) he comes out with a second “updated prediction” book. (College Club forum, Feb. 4, 2003)
• Maginify this across zillions of businesses and industries and long behold you have a massive economic problem that will not go away with the war on Iraq, but rather with the disapearance of copyrights. (Slashdot, Feb. 12, 2003)
• Thou shall not kill is a commandment. Long behold, it’s also against the law. (Marlins Baseball forum, Mar. 1, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• Headteachers have often defended their right to gain sponsorship from fizzy drinks and snack companies, saying it is a much sort-after source of income. (The Guardian, May 18, 2004)
• It seems PI3Ks are an essential part of the long-sort-after ‘cellular compass’. (Babraham Institute Laboratory of Inositide)
• Many of the sort after antiques of today are those items which had an everyday use. (World Collectors Net)
• The wreck of the long-sort-for steam collier, Lady Darling (1864-1880), has been discovered near Montague Island on the New South Wales south coast. (Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology Newsletter, Sep. 1996)
• I don’t claim it to be a ‘miracle’ but God has started something in me through the work of the Spirit in you, and I am grateful to Him and to you that the long sort for healing has started. (Jemimah Media)
• Struggling actor Alex Grant (Matt Wolf) finally get’s the big break he has sort for on a new TV show from America but has to challenge the love of girlfriend Susie to achieve these goals. (MEV Productions)
• In doing this, we need peace, the much sort for ingredient in solitude. (Ghanaweb, Oct. 4, 2002)

Spotted in the wild:

• Oh well I guess since I invested two years into school already I minus well finish my last two years and earn my BSN and if I don’t like it I can always change. (Allnurses forum, May 19, 2001)
• I’ve decided that an alarm is necessary for my truck, plus I want remote start so I minus well get it all at once. (Real Car Audio forum, Aug. 13, 2003)
• With all due respect, any team that doesn’t bring their A game to the national championship minus well forfeit. (College Football News forum, Nov. 13, 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• Another words, is George a reasonably foreseeable plaintiff? (McCombs School of Business, BA 287T midterm exam key, Fall 1996)
• Another words, these mRNAs are expressed from genes with a moderate number of copies. (University of Washington, Genetics 372 midterm exam key, Spring 2002)
• Another words, we generally do not look favorably upon fungi. (University of Hawaii, Botany 135 syllabus, Fall 2003)

Spotted in the wild:

• The Tigers took the game, 3-2, enacting revenge on a St. Joseph’s team that beat them just hours earlier in the first game, 1-0. (Daily Princetonian, May 2, 2002)
• I personally own the GameCube version, and I’m definitely getting a kick out playing as Link, but if I owned an XBox, I think I would be spending most of my free time this semester enacting revenge upon the soul-warriors with the massively cool and powerful hell-born. (North Texas Daily, Aug. 29, 2003)
• Temple (6-6) will not have to wait long for the opportunity to enact revenge on its city rival. (Temple University press release, Feb. 5, 2005)
• Anti-death penalty activists argue that we, as a modern civilization, have progressed too far to still be enacting vengeance upon murderers by executing them. (Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star, May 24, 1999)
• The characters with disabilities turned into a mob of murderers by the end of the film, as they slid through the mud and rain to enact vengeance on the nondisabled star. (Journal of Popular Film and Television, Winter 2002)
• In “Delta Force 2,” Chuck Norris plays Colonel Scott McCoy, who is on a mission to enact vengeance on the world’s richest drug dealer, Ramon Cota, for killing his partner. (University of Wisconsin Badger Herald, Feb. 9, 2005)