The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• This weekend, the WireX research team entered an Immunix server into the DefCon Capture the Flag games, in which each of the teams try to hack each other’s servers, while simultaneously defending their own server. The executive summary is that we placed 2nd, coming withing a hare’s breadth of winning the contest, and the Immunix server was never captured. (link)
• The notion that a computer program can be arbitrarily classified as a “munition” and thus fall under export control is a slippery slope. It’s only a hare’s breadth from the notion that these “munitions” should entail mandatory registration and “7 day waiting periods” and ultimately be banned entirely from domestic use. It’ll all start with populist phrases like: “protect the children from child pornography” and “only drug dealers and mobsters have secrets to hide from us” (link)
• Johnno and Rowie fly through a heavy storm and the pilot has difficulty keeping the plane in the air. The realisation that they have escaped death by a hare’s breadth makes Johnno think about his future and the values in his life. (link)
• Delightful classic transports young readers to the timeless world of the Green Forest, where Peter discovers the folly of changing his name, outwits the ever-hungry Reddy Fox, manages a number of hare’s-breadth escapes, and makes an ill-advised decision to hibernate. (Home School Source, book summary)

Spotted in the wild:

• A poorly made soldered joint for example may appear to be satisfactory at the fill pressure, and detection will only be possible if the pressure is raised. Such a joint is often said to be ‘hanging by a hare’s breath’, and needs additional pressure to expose the fault. (Marley Plumbing and Drainage)
• OPEC increased its estimate for demand for its oil by around 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 28.7 million bpd for the first quarter, and to 28.5 million bpd for the rest of the year. This is a hare’s breath short of the 29 million bpd average the cartel produced last year, but even that figure is likely to be a conservative estimate. (Daily Star, January 24, 2005)
• Putting Freight Customers First has been our goal since our first five-year lease with the West Virginia State Rail Authority. Reliable and responsive freight hauling has been restored to a line that was within a hare’s breath of abandonment. (railroaddata.com)
• This is the point where he will make his first realistic offer. If you still think the price is too high then reciprocate with your final counter offer and see if he budges. Make it just a hare’s breath higher than your original offer and gauge his reaction. (Cruise Guide: How to bargain?)

Spotted in the wild:

• While visiting Iowa in 1893, the Czech composer Anton Devorak hears the song of a scarlet teenager and is inspired to create a new piece of music. (Arizona Arts Education Resources)
• The Nature Conservancy’s 15-year old Kern River Preserve is part of one of the largest remaining cottonwood-willow riparian forest in California. The 1’100 acre preserve is home to several rare species including the willow flycatcher, the summer teenager and yellow-billed cuckoo. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• I’ve a rather sorted past, and by nature, I’m quite the fighter and I like a good challenge and fight. So, keeping that in mind, I’ve gotten myself into plenty actual fights. (link)
• Abe learned about her sorted past as a high priced call-girl who worked for and with Stefano DiMera. (link)
• OK, so you are interested in the whole sorted story of how we got dust mites to ride on our MEMS device. (link)
• donnie darko is the dark and sorted tale of a senior in highschool with schizophrenia. (link)
• For those unfamiliar, Cicero is a town carved out of a section of Chicago’s southwest side. It would usually be considered a ’suburb’ but with its close proximity to the city it’s almost like Chicago, and then with the system of government and long and sorted relationship with the governments of Chicago and the State of Illinois, it acts more like an autonomous town. (link)

Spotted in the wild:

• French hone in on Egypt crash black box signal (abs-cbn news, January 7, 2004)
• Police hone in on site: Stillman wants new station on Robbins Road (Daily News Transcript, January 31, 2005)
• “Performance-wise our Pontiac Grand Am and Kurt’s Chevrolet will be right there,” said Johnson. “We actually expect to be at the head of the pack. We started honing in on it toward the end of last season, but didn’t have enough time to produce all the parts and pieces that it takes to get the performance to where it needs to be. (motorsport.com, 2005-02-07)
• With an election in the offing and opinion polls dictating their every gesture, our political masters have honed-in on immigration as a key battle-ground. (The Scotsman, 8 Feb 2005)