{"id":2931,"date":"2009-02-24T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2009-02-24T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T21:27:09","slug":"mangling-the-mother-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/mangling-the-mother-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangling the mother tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Telegraph<\/a>, the top ten misquotes by British people are as follows:<\/p>\n

1) A damp squid (a damp squib)<\/p>\n

2) On tender hooks (on tenter hooks)<\/p>\n

3) Nip it in the butt (nip it in the bud)<\/p>\n

4) Champing at the bit (chomping at the bit)<\/p>\n

5) A mute point (a moot point)<\/p>\n

6) One foul swoop (one fell swoop)<\/p>\n

7) All that glitters is not gold (all that glisters is not gold)<\/p>\n

8 ) Adverse to (averse to)<\/p>\n

9) Batting down the hatches (batten down the hatches)<\/p>\n

10) Find a penny pick it up (find a pin pick it up)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Arbitrary<\/strong> North American irritations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I could care less (I couldn’t care less)<\/p>\n

Money is the root of all evil (the love of money is the root of all evil)<\/p>\n

I’ve got less faults than you (I’ve got fewer faults than you)<\/p>\n

I should have went to my grammar classes (I should have gone to my grammar classes)<\/p>\n

There is bats in my belfry (there are bats in my belfry)<\/p>\n

I should of attended my grammar lessons (I should have attended my grammar lessons)<\/p>\n

I’m doing good (I’m doing well)<\/p>\n

On a daily basis (every day)<\/p>\n

Every person should check their words (every person should check his words)<\/p>\n

Visa-versa (vice versa)<\/p>\n

Its got it’s apostrophe in the wrong place (It’s got its apostrophe in the wrong place)<\/p>\n

The trajectory of the Anglican Church (the direction of the Anglican Church)<\/p>\n

As well, misplacing words in a sentence can be annoying (misplacing words in a sentence can be annoying as well)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Telegraph, the top ten misquotes by British people are as follows: 1) A damp squid (a damp squib) 2) On tender hooks (on tenter hooks) 3) Nip it in the butt (nip it in the bud) 4) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[2199],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manners","tag-manners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}