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On Accident vs By Accident

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    #92
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    A friend of mine is American and she says “on accident” - the first time I heard her say it, I laughed, because it sounded so strange; it still does because it’s WRONG!!

    Also, the amount of people who don’t know how to use there, their or they’re correctly in a sentence is mind boggling.


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    #93
    steve-o
    Registered Users Posts: 905 ✭✭✭steve-o


    corner of hells wrote: »
    unpossible
    That's perfectly cromulent.


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    #94
    Upforthematch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Upforthematch


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    You know what they say. You will always make a mistake yourself when correcting someones grammar.

    And rightly so!


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    #95
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    seagull wrote: »
    But that's what they're thought in collage.

    :D

    I know somebody who mixes up thought & taught all the time, but I can't bring myself to correct them. Maybe I should?


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    #96
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    "accidentally" works fine..

    I have never lost since my teaching days my "red pen " mentality. I see every error.


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    #97
    NoviGlitzko
    Registered Users Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭NoviGlitzko


    Most one sided poll ever?


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    #98
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    My daughters say ‘...by an accident’

    No idea where they got it from. They have their own way of saying many things like ‘I wanted to wonder...’ when asking/wondering about something. It makes them unique and I have no intention of correcting them.


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