Yer sayin’ it wrong!!

When I hear these, my ears hurt! Thanx for posting. There is one, though, that's often neither right nor wrong, depending on in what context it's used: A bald-faced lie -- or barefaced, as it's often called in England -- means one that is undisguised and clearly untrue. A bold-faced lie, on the other hand, is one that is impudent or disrespectful [source: Grammarphobia]. Many lies would fall under both categories.
 
Oh, #14 reminded me of a line from an old t.v. show. A teenager was telling his mother about a new restaurant in town. Intending to say "Do you know whose parents went there?" he garbled up the words and it came out "You'll never guess who went there's parents!"

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One I heard a long time ago. At a children's choir practice, the choirmaster listened closely to one child. He was singing," gladly the cross-eyed bear" rather than "gladly the cross I'd bear"
Long ago, children hearing the Pledge of Allegiance wrong was allegedly so common that there was a story in the Reader's Digest magazine. It said many little kids heard 'for which it stands' as 'for Richard Stanz.' When I was in the earliest grades I heard it as 'where witches stand'- and kinda mentally processed a line of witches standing in a row saluting the flag.
 
Mentioned above, but a pet peeve is using "of" as a verb (as in "should of"). Just because the contraction "should've" (for "should have") sounds like "of" does not mean it is correct.

Maybe they should try to conjugate this "of":
I of
You of
He/she/it ofs
We of
You of
They of

Not. :ROFLMAO:
 

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