The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• Distance education student will step foot on campus for first time at commencement. (Indiana State University press release, Dec. 11, 2002)
• I pray my dream can come true, and I can one day step foot on that beautiful campus as not just a spectator-but as a student. (University of Notre Dame Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Sep. 10, 2003)
• Our staff is here to walk you through every step of the way until you step foot on campus in the Fall of 2005. (Aurora University newsletter, Sep. 2004)
• I had stopped going down to the Café Wha? in the afternoons. Never stepped foot in there again. (Bob Dylan: Chronicles (Vol. One), Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster UK), 2004, chapter 1, p. 18)

Spotted in the wild:

• I looked at this darling toe headed boy, and shook my head. (Technology And Persons With Disabilities Conference Proceedings, 1999)
• We felt like Belgium or Bolivia when they play us, as our sweet li’l toe-headed amateurs whipped the older, villainous Commie Red rats. (CNN/Sports Illustrated, Sep. 23, 1999)
• “Do you really believe that story about the plane?” asked the toe-headed boy. (Literary Review, Spring 2003)
• That’s because the public perception on White is that he’s a potentially another Heisman washout, a slow-footed, weak-armed guy seen as Gino Torretta with a drawl or a toe-headed Danny Wuerffel. (ESPN The Magazine, Jan. 6, 2005)
• A toe-head with blue eyes heard the front door of the house open and ran full-speed ahead towards a man with a tie exclaiming through a wide smile, “Dad!” (Utah Foster Care Foundation, June 15, 2003)
• I, of course, am the cute little toe-head in the front. (Planet Dan, Nov. 30, 2004)

Spotted in the wild:

• When he got home from the army, he was a bit of a rebel rouser type, from what I understand. (Alleghany News Online, Oct. 17, 2002)
• He was portrayed as a political dissenter and a rebel rouser. (Middlebury Campus, Nov. 7, 2001)
• If you get pegged as a rebel-rouser, eventually you’ll be shoved out. (Juilliard Journal Online, Feb. 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• It does nothing to change the impression of a club stumbling along on a whim and a prayer. (The Daily Mail, May 25, 2004, quoted by Quinion)
• This Government went to war on a whim and a prayer. (The Guardian, July 7, 2003)
• She has ditched Kiefer Sutherland at the altar; married Lyle Lovett on a whim and a prayer; been linked with dishy actors like Jason Patric and Daniel Day-Lewis. (CNN/Time, Sep. 17, 2001)
• On a whim and a prayer, Webb-Waring Institute volunteer Amy Slothower wrote to Eggers last year, asking him to read and talk to a group of Denver deep-pockets to raise money for the cancer research center. (Denver Post, Mar. 18, 2001)

Spotted in the wild:

• Cass Sunstein was in the office next store in his very first year of teaching and we spent quality time together that year. Now Cass is a “Visiting Fellow” of the Volokh Conspiracy. Welcome to the office next door, Cass! (Randy Barnett, Volokh Conspiracy, June 22, 2004)
• When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-store neighbor made after he left that first morning. (link)
• He needed photos of our next store neighbor’s garbage cans. (link)
• It’s one of those “urban nightmare stories” in which your newly befriended next store neighbor turns out to be a cold blooded mass bomber, and a mastermind who never loses. (link)
• The best thing I can say about ‘The Girl Next Store’ is that it had all the requisite components for a Stupid Teen Movie. (link)
• John Brooke is a tutor to the boy next store. The boy next store ’s name is Laury. (link)
• Hiding already in the alcove was a young man who lived next store to the March’s with his grandfather. (link)
• US 1880 Census show that Adam & Mary lived next store to Mary’s parents. (link)
• I think of the elderly couple who lived next store to me, so in love and wondering what was happening to them physically. (link)