Do you air on the side of caution?

compound complex

Well, that would be an airer.

It's all in how we hear the spoken word. When a little boy, one fellow thought "world peace" was "whirled peas." Anyone heard of mondegreen?

air

heir

ere

err ("air" or "ur")

OneEyedJoe

For all intensive purposes, I try to air on the side of caution. Unfortunately I think this has caused a lot of people to start taking me for granite.

LoveUniHateExams

Have you seen the Two Ronnies sketch with Ronnie Barker coming into a DIY-type shop and asking in a Cockney accent for supposedly 'four candles'?

Ronnie Corbett, who's behind the counter, then gives him the items.

'Nah, nah, nah ... I wanted fork 'andles' - y'know, 'andles for forks!'

That sketch carries on like that and is pretty good.

compound complex

Greetings, OneEyedJoe and LoveUniHateExams:

Those are really cool examples -- love 'em!

Thanks!

"Raise up lights": Aussie for razor blades

compound complex

Oh! An afterthought:

San greal -- Holy Grail

Sang real -- royal blood

snowbird

Ha, ha.

Little girl (oldest daughter) heard Christendom as Chris and Dom.

I once thought Chad and Jeremy were singing, all them leaves must fall, instead of autumn leaves must fall.

Can't think of the song's title right now.

Sylvia

blondie

Air on the side of caution....don't let a fart in public, you never know who is behind you

cobweb

I have a guy on my twitter feed who sometimes likes to retweet mistakes like this.Typical examples are:

chester draws

colon (instead of cologne)

die of beaties

lack toast and tolerant

A quick check on twitter and here they are in context:

I just spray a few drops of his colon on my pillow

I eat way too much candy, I'm definitely going to die of beaties

I feel bad for people who are lack toast and tolerant bc they can't have milkshakes

There are lots more of these common mistakes but I forget them now.

snowbird

LOL.

I once worked for a health care agency where recipients were required to submit an application for services.

One question asked about prior health issues.

An applicant replied that she'd had problems with fireball toomers.

What???!!!

She meant fibroid uterine tumors.

Sylvia

ElderEtta

One of our elders while delivering a public address was never especially eloquent but revealed how especially ignorant he was when he cited the Bluebonnet plague three times during the speech

Do you air on the side of caution?

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