Common sayings that are wrong or butchered

Fuddyduddy1952 · Nov 28, 2022

Dad was always messing with Mom getting her to mispronounce things. She went to the grocery store but couldn't find anise cookies so she asked the manager where the **** cookies were.

von-mil · Nov 29, 2022

/pine said:
You often hear the word "nuclear" pronounced with just two syllables...

...or nuke-u-lar

SgtSluggo · Nov 30, 2022

BravoXray said:
On the subject of sayings, or statements that bug me, the most common is when a criminal is caught in the act, in view of multiple witnesses including LEOs or clearly on video, and he is referred to as a "suspect".

I don't think there is anything wrong with being serious with the idea of "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" Even LEO's can be wrong sometimes.

Pixguy · Nov 30, 2022

I broke my kids of the bad habit they came home from school with.. On accident. What? No, By accident.

I purposely butcher the saying "I resent that remark" to "I resemble that remark" when I want to joke about myself. I now hear my adult kids use it..Makes me proud!

Pixguy · Nov 30, 2022

I hear 20ish year old kids say I got "tooken" to the store.

bigtiller · Nov 30, 2022

Pixguy said:
I broke my kids of the bad habit they came home from school with.. On accident. What? No, By accident.

I purposely butcher the saying "I resent that remark" to "I resemble that remark" when I want to joke about myself. I now hear my adult kids use it..Makes me proud!

Garfield said it in 1987 on TV but I think he said a few years earlier in the comic strip.

bcp · Dec 1, 2022

It is logical.

"I didn't break it on purpose. I did it on accident."

Bruce

Pixguy · Dec 1, 2022

bcp said:
It is logical.

"I didn't break it on purpose. I did it on accident."

Bruce

I've googled them both and "On accident" is acceptable but I hate to hear it.

Pixguy · Dec 1, 2022

bigtiller said:
Garfield said it in 1987 on TV but I think he said a few years earlier in the comic strip.

Oh I know I didn't coin the phrase, I just use it.

goeduck · Dec 1, 2022

The voice translator on my iPhone text message often switches "going to" to "gonna". I hate that (sounds ignorant), so I edit the text before sending.