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?
@MLClark I used to be particular about grammar.
The first thing that comes to mind is when native people I know say Runned Over. As in He got runned over by a reindeer.
😂 Oh, but that's such a perfect error! The word itself "runneth over", long past where it's supposed to stop in that verb tense. Someone forgot to slam on their linguistic breaks, and now we're not just reporting on a hit and run; we're replaying it, too!
@MLClark English isn’t their first language so I thought it was cute…