The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• “At last!” replies a hoarse, base voice. “Is Fuchs with you?” (link)
• In the Bayreuth Festival the 1978 edition Matti Salminen performed as Daland in Der fliegende Holländer and year after year he performed as Landgrave in Tannhäuser, as Titurel in Parsifal, as King Marke in Tristan and Isolde and also in some other base parts in the Ring-cycle. Matti Salminen’s repertoire includes the main parts for an authentic base voice in the works belonging to Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Glinka and Mussorgsky. (link)
• Each individual voice has an inherent range and pitch. At a young age this pitch is usually high even for a person with a base voice. (link)
• There are various kinds of voices. Yours seems to be a base voice. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Are you customer driven and revenue focused? Are you a negotiator with a flare for persuasion? (link)
• For one IPFW grad, a flare for the theater led to award-winning costume design (link)
• Feeney, who has served one term in Congress, representing a district east of Orlando, has a reputation as a devout neoconservative with a flare for using hot-button issues to his advantage. (New Times)
• Smith always had a flare for the dramatic, and his announcement proved to be no different. (The Docket, February 8, 2005)
• Within a few moments, Stone, the star of such top-grossing films as “Basic Instinct,” had shown how fame and a flare for drama could inject a passionate message into a complex debate. (International Herald Tribune, January 29, 2005)

Spotted in the wild:

• Intuitively moral conduct is based on the assumption that the consequences of all actions must be taken in consideration. “An act is morally just when it leads to the best consequences compared to other acts (van Willigenburg, 1993, p. 28). This is a consequentionalist norm. This raises the question what should be the goal standard to all conduct. (link)
• We have argued with the NIH that our cell lines, because we’ve worked with them so long and have characterized them so much, should be the goal standard against which other lines are compared to evaluate whether they’re useful or not, and NIH hasn’t quite agreed to that, but they have asked us to put on a week long wet lab exercise when the funding finally begins to teach the NIH researchers what we’ve learned, what I’ve shared with you today, and how to handle these cells, and we’re very happy to go and do that. (link)
• ‘Platinum’ would become the goal standard for dealer participation in co-op’s programs (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• You may have the picture of the cigar-smoking general, with feet on desk, pouring over the newest periodicals for news, or grabbing a sheet from the teletype, but it’s the ordinary soldier, the man who fights in the mud and dirt, who wants to know everything that is going on at home. (link)
• Yet as Christians is it not valuable to consider how the Holy Spirit has spoken to our brothers and sisters over the millennia as they have struggled with various issues, poured over the Scriptures and often fasted and prayed heartily with their fellow Christians in the light of the inspired texts? (link)
• This will supply a detailed image of the currents entering the region from this direction, helping Tom Haine to increase the accuracy of his mathematical model of the Irminger Sea. We can see him below at his desk pouring over the next modification to be made. (link)
• What was unusual was the fact that Mary Patten proceeded to acquaint herself with every foot of NEPTUNE’S CAR from bow to stern. In those long days a sea, the young wife watched and learned as her skipper poured over her charts and navigated his vessel. Soon the Captain’s wife was adept at navigation. […] And, all during this, she worried about her husband and paid little attention to her well-being. She poured over few medical texts aboard ship, shaved his head, gave him medication at hand, sat by his side, tried to rally him, but her husband’s health continued to decline. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• Starting in April, the 120-passenger Clipper Odyssey will way anchor and leave Singapore for an intriguing 16-day journey to the islands of the Philippines. (Cost: $7,990.) (TIME Asia)
• CAP — Oh, yes, that’s right. I’m the captain. Let’s see… (shouts) way anchor! (link)
• Anchors Away! Atlantis and Herb depart. (link)
• Waying in on the race for U.S. Senator, Yamhill County Republicans gave 1,911 of their votes to Al King, who won the nomination. (Newberg Graphic, OR, May 19, 2004)
• Now pundits are always waying in on why we are engaging in certain things. (Mercury News (San Jose, CA), Aug. 22, 2004)
• Waying in on buying new or old homes. (Medill News Service, Feb. 15, 2005)