February 2012
1 post
2 tags
January 2012
9 posts
"My colleague keeps spelling bi-polar "bi-polo"....
An anonymous submission from an online community I frequent.
The google results for “bipolo disorder” and bipolar+bipolo reveal a mix of confused people/SEO to aid the confused people, as well as a handful of folks who have the disorder using the term to lighten the mood a bit.
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@edmoran77: The exception speeches are becoming... →
Ed, I love you, but the fuck is an “exception” speech?
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clientsfromhell:
Client: Do you do lemonade?
Me: Do we do… lemonade?
Client: Yes, I was told you do that here.
Me: I’m sorry, this is a graphics and print shop.
Client: I know that. I’m not an idiot.
Me: I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to -
Client: Look If you can’t lemonade these papers for me then I’ll go somewhere else!
Me: Do you mean… laminate?
RING in the New Year, don't BRING it in.
A friendly holiday reminder from the eggcorn tumblr.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/45/messages/116.html
2.1M google results for “bring in the New Year” vs. 58.1M for “ring in the new year.”
December 2011
3 posts
November 2011
3 posts
Shalom, motherf*ckers
donnapirana:
shitmystudentswrite:
Our house was a constant target for drive-by shootings and mazel tov cocktails.
Did they not make this joke in The Hebrew Hammer? Missed opportunity.
No eggcorn database entry, but there is one in Urban Dictionary!
Mazel Tov Cocktail
A potent and surprisingly drinkable alcoholic beverage made from cheap kosher wine and gin. To make a traditional Mazel...
Educational Eggcorns: Anchors Away!
languageshellyeah:
I am guilty of this one. We have all heard the term Anchors Away but did you know it is actually ‘Anchors Aweigh’? The same goes for:
Weigh anchor and weighing in.
This is a common mistake and has been sighted in professional publications:
“Starting in April, the 120-passenger Clipper Odyssey will way anchor and leave Singapore for an intriguing 16-day journey to the...
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October 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
4 posts
bluthboys:
someone on facebook spelled ostrich “ostrage” and i am imagining a really angry ostrich
in an ostRAGE
I GIS’d “angry ostrich” to have an image accompaniment but the results were way too scary for the Eggcorn blog. Even if the razor-sharp teeth are a ‘shop, too scary.
Based on Google Regular it seems like a fairly common eggcorn/substitution for...
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July 2011
1 post
Copy Quiz: "Instead of sending snip-its through...
no snip-its and definitely no skip-its either, guys.
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
Copy Quiz: "The whole commission was froth with...
froufy:
I’ve honestly never seen this error before. I think the manuscript I’m working on must have been dictated, because there are other “heard” errors like “in sized” instead of “incised.”
Jen does a great job of finding these!
I’m on my phone but I’ll look up froth/frought later.
March 2011
4 posts
Lapses in correct usage of the English language...
uprightcitizens:
“One in the same”
“It doesn’t phase me”
“I seen that movie”
Two egg corns and a lazy tongue. Phased/fazed has been discussed here before. “One in the same” actually has an ECDB entry for your perusal. For some reason when I read that, I picture one small circle inside a big circle, while one and the same is a partially-overlapping traditional Venn diagram.
...
February 2011
5 posts
Today I've seen "poo-poo the idea" AND "poopoo... →
Ewwww…
Basically just bad spelling/cultural ignorance but I thought it should go here. @LoneEel works as a manuscript reader so she sees a lot of nonsense.
Nicholas Angel: It's Frank! He's appointed himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner!
Danny Butterman: He is not Judge Judy and Executioner!
Adrián Terrazas-González →
In 2004, Adrián joined The Mars Volta recording the studio album Frances the Mute and continues to work with the band (as full flesh member) on subsequent albums (Live Scabdates 2005, Amputechture 2006) and all of The Mars Volta side projects (movie scores, DVD‘s etc).
“Full flesh member” sounds terrible, although not unlike a Mars Volta lyric.
I give this one authentic egg...
"He suggests having a sort of litmus taste when... →
This one was very subtle to my eye at first and I think it’s because my brain made the correction automatically. Still. Doesn’t give this author any right to say “litmus TASTE” because that is not a thing. Unless you are someone who licked the litmus paper in chemistry class to see if you were “pH balanced” like Secret brand deodorant.
The Eggcorn forum...
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Crisis diverted, my wooly mammoth hat and... →
“Crisis diverted” to me means you’ve just sent the problem down the river to someone else or yourself on some later date.
Also “crisis diverted” sounds like something Winston Rothschild from The Red Green Show would say. “Crisis diverted, eh?”
January 2011
7 posts
1 tag
“I’m in it for the endolphin rush.”
– Annette Bening, Postcards from the Edge
Button →
whenparentstext:
Dad: i love you from the button of my heart
I imagine this tumblr will be a good source of eggcorns. button of my heart should be in ecdb, because I found a bunch of hits for it on google.
"Ostrich-sized" for "ostracized."
Let’s keep an eye/ear out for this one, Egg Corn Fans. It just popped into my head, I thought it would be funny.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ostrich-sized
Not much. Should be more.
December 2010
4 posts
25 Dumbest Tweets of 2010 →
Twitter bird hatches eggs. Many of them filled with corn.
Withdrawal systems
Arterial motives
Defense magnesium
Lactoast & tolerant
File under “You can’t make this stuff up…” Thanks Andrea for RT’ing the link, and to Zindzi for finding all of this nonsense!
Now day's it seems that lawyers don't care about... →
I like this folksy take on the phrase “almighty dollar.” Lookit that ol’ mighty dollar over there, Leroy!
“Now day’s,” on the other hand, is just stupid.
Observed today: "Utmost" with an intended meaning... →
ECDB has an entry for “upmost” replacing the correct word “utmost,” but this is a bit different. Maybe a schwa sound problem?
My prom consisted of taking a million pictures before the dance, staying at the dance for utmost an hour, and then slyly drinking in the back of a limo….
November 2010
3 posts
OK, you've seen them everywhere, those old TV's... →
newfangled + fandango = new fan dangle.
Or a strange, yet erotic dance.