Have you been getting a phrase wrong all your life? | BBC Ideas
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- Have you found out you've been getting a phrase wrong all your life? It's OK! You're contributing to the evolution of the English language.
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#English #malaphors
When I was little, I said “shoot yourself” instead of “suit yourself”.
That's too harsh wasn't it 😂
I remember receiving work emails with the phrase "point of you", instead of "point of view".
Don't count your chickens before they cross the road.
americans seem to use 'i could care less' (meaning you do care)...like english people use 'i couldn't care less' (meaning i don't care)...🇿🇦
In the Beatles' "Let it Be," I thought the phrase...
"...And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me..."
Was
"...And in my oblidoplus, she is standing right in front of me."
The "oblidoplus" being the crossing in an English church between the main long hallway and the short side hallways.
Let's just say i had a lot of imagination...
...to fill the gaps where my Anglical architectural knowledge fell short.
Like “I’m blue if I was green I would die” instead of “I’m blue da ba dee da ba die”
I could care less, irregardless of what you people think
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couldn't care less...
Kim: "I want to be effluent, mum. EFFLUENT!!"
Kath: "You are effluent, Kim!!"
I always thought “we’ll burn (or bomb) that bridge when we come to it” was a deliberate joke, not a mistake.
And to conclude that "malaphor" uses the prefix "mal" would be participating in folk etymology
the mal comes from mal a propos
As a kid I thought prime minister was one word, “priminister”
Dont put all your horses in one basket, we’ll burn that bridge when we get over it.
i entirely wish that people could speak MORE clearer
Like one time when a person on tiktok said "jelly fruits" i thought he said "tootypoots" because first of all HE DID NOT SPEAK CLEARLY AND SECOND OF ALL I HAVE SEVERE MONDEGREENS AND SUFFER FROM IT EVERY SINGLE FRICKING DAY.
“Spread dysentery among the ranks”
This was when I was a kid but pretty much everyone said "you want a piece of meat?" Before a flight.
I kept hearing "burn the gate" instead of "renegade" repeatedly until i read the lyrics
I hate my ears
back when a book was technology folks were IMO brainiacs. So intotheir environment, never disregarded it. they were literal documentarians of this beautiful planets, ex:
'ode to nightingale' -keats
in school I couldnt comprehend all the mandated reading, all the significance of the plots, the passion for enduring words. Time is the concern, clear concise, and direct. Specifics will save us much time, yet slightly pleasing hearing these issues. I read awesome and aweful used to mean the same thing
Now they call eggcorns bone apple tea
The devils in the pudding
3:42 Wait, what is that supposed to be?!
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it
Where there’s a will there’s a penny earned
i often hear people talking about expresso...must be a really fast version of espresso coffee? 🇿🇦
Hey language is communal, therefore corruptible. Just think of it as a blessing in the skies.
Mmm.... interesting
I spy (game) is ice-pice in India 😅
Sweet home austrulia
half of one or six dozen of the other. :)
So yeah, it's still pronounced as gif.
idc what others say.
Good old Irish accent.
Fool me once shame on you, teach a man to fool and I’ll be fooled for the rest of my life