List some malapropisms (the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended).

Homophones
I hope I have (piqued/peaked) your interest.
    -advertisement cited by William Safire, NY Times, November 13, 1993

Near homophones
And to your humors changing, I tune my (subtle/supple) song.
    -Mary Higgins Clark, _I'll Be Seeing You_, Pocket, New York, 1993, p. 123
Can you (e/i)nsure that all is well?
... for all (intensive/intents and) purposes.
    -Observed in Usenet rec.puzzles article, 2/21/94
He walked up to the (bespectacled/bespeckled) bank teller.
Home is where the heart(h) is.
I think you are taking the right tac(k/t).
It's coming down the pi(p/k)e.
I will ski(m)p over the specifics.
    -Solomon Feferman, American Mathematical Monthly, February 1999, p. 100
I've been ra(c)king my brain the whole time.
    -Patricia D. Cornwell, _All That Remains_, Avon, New York, 1993, p. 231
Listen to the (blabbing/babbling) brook.
    -Norm Crosby
...men who were unaware of the Illuminati stronghold/stranglehold on the Masons.
    -Dan Brown, _Angels & Demons_, Pocket, New York, 2000, p. 39
Music has charms to soothe the savage b(r)east.
She gave him a (venomous/venenose) stare.
She was (ravished/ravaged) by his gaze.
That contraption looks j(er/u)ry-rigged. [probably from jerry-built]
That is a tough (row/road) to hoe.
That is (s)light on details. [Internet, August 2009]
That will put a cr(a/i)mp in my style.
The astronaut was hur(t)led into space.
The car caree(n/r)s down the road.
The horse is ch(a/o)mping on the bit.
The organizer tried to (b)ring us in.
The raft tipped and du(c/n)ked us all.
The storm is wre(a/c)king havoc.
The sun pe(a/c)ked out from behind clouds.
    -Patricia D. Cornwell, _All That Remains_, Avon, New York, 1993, p. 36
They felt the (temblor/trembler) shake the building.
... they tended to (parse/parcel) it out over long vacations.
    -Kim Masters, _The Keys to the Kingdom_, Morrow, New York, 2000, p. 280
We all must w(e/i)nd our way through life.
We must inst(a/i)ll some discipline.
We should try to ho(m/n)e in on the real issue.

On "The storm is wre(a/c)king havoc":

I think some people say "wreck" because "wreak" sounds like "reek."

Moving a little further from the original topic, here are some URL's for
Mondegreen pages (a Mondegreen is a misheard song lyric; there's some
funny stuff, and they're similar to the homophonic idioms--or was that
"homophobic idiots?")

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.html
http://www.mcs.com/~bingo/lyrics.html
http://www.umd.umich.edu/~infinit/misheard.html
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~bah6f/funnies/songs2.html

By the way, what was it before it was "four calling birds?"

-- David Fergemann <dsfergem@fas.harvard.edu>

[ Editor: no answer to the last question was found in the collected
  postings. ]

More Malaphors

I won't bore everyone with the sorted details...
I work at the service center for a bank.  During a tour of the various
  departments, the manager of ATM banking said that the older model ATMs
  would be removed from service by letting them "die by nutrition".
I would be happy for a quick answer/advise because this is
  a book we are building for a costumer.
I would wish that we would just keep on improving all the annoying
  nitbits that OS/2 still has so many of.
I wouldn't do that for all the blood and turnips in the world.*
I wouldn't do that for love nor Pete.*
I wouldn't take that job for all the world in China!
I wouldn't touch him if he were a ten-foot Pole.*
I wouldn't touch that with a hot potato.*

(*from my wife)

-- Bill McCray <billmccray@delphi.com>, Wordplay-L, December 1996