linguistic error Quotes

Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?

I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?

The wrong word is like a lie jammed inside the story.

My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long.

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

They misunderestimated me.

Xylophone is spelled with an X. That's wrong. It should be a Z up front. Next time you spell xylophone, use a Z. If someone says, "That's wrong!", you say, "No, it ain't." If you think that's wrong, then you need to have your head Z-rayed.

If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two… succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course.

I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.

It was a long time before I understood what the word 'specific' was. I remember being a kid and thinking it was 'pacific,' and being like, 'Can you be more pacific?' And I believed that for maybe five, six years until someone was like, 'It's 'specific.''

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.