Diving into evening work, hopefully with something to show for it for you folks soon.
Question before I go:
We all have grammatical gripes... but what's a grammatical "error" that you find pretty darned cute or satisfying, even if you wouldn't use it yourself?
I heard someone say "on accident" today, and to me it just sounded adorable. Maybe because it's nonstandard usage unwittingly used *by* accident around that same phrase?
What linguistic bastard child is *your* cutie-patootie of choice?
This isn't grammatical, but it's always intrigued me that everywhere in America, people stand IN line, except for New York City, where they stand ON line.
Ooo! I wonder if that has anything to do with all the immigrant history in that city. Many European languages have one word that replaces English's separate uses of "in" and "on". Possibly this NY usage is an artifact of cultural fusion?