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Seems like one of those phrases you only hear someone say offhandedly, and might not actually see written down. I can totally understand how it could be easy to
by OkGoDoIt 6y ago
Seems like one of those phrases you only hear someone say offhandedly, and might not actually see written down. I can totally understand how it could be easy to mishear it somewhere along the chain of people who heard it from other people.
- roywiggins 6y agoSee: eggcorns https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/ https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
- monkeybutton 6y agoEggcorns! I've been needing a word for those phrases, thank you.
- devilduck 6y agoMangling common cliche phrases is a pretty entertaining activity. Sometimes you gotta shit or get off the fan.
- reaperducer 6y agoThis is what happens when people stop reading books.
- RandallBrown 6y agoThen you just end up pronouncing things wrong. How many American children grew up reading Harry Potter pronouncing Hermione as "Hermi-Own" until the movies came out?
- reaperducer 6y agoThen you just end up pronouncing things wrong. No, then you get used to applying the pronunciations of word fragments from one word to another. Reading doesn't make you pronounce things wrong. Not reading does. It's why so many people on YouTube embarrass themselves by confidently getting certain words hilariously wrong. How many American children grew up reading Harry Potter pronouncing Hermione as "Hermi-Own" until the movies came out? Is this common? I can't say that I know a lot of children, but the ones I do know had no problem with it. I know because one named a stuffed animal after her, and another asked her mother if she could change her own name to Herminoe.
- devilduck 6y agoUntil you realize some people are doing it on purpose and others are getting mad about it