Exposed!: Famous ungrammatical quotes!

[Jonathan Lighter]

They missed "We wuz robbed!" and "I shoulda stood in bed!"

JL


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> Very interesting, Jon.  If one includes the restrictive "that" vs. "which"
> controversy (American copyeditors see their main function in life as
> changing restrictive "which" to "that," but I believe that in Britain the
> preference is the reverse), many of the most famous literary quotations
> seem "wrong" to literary Americans.
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> Fred Shapiro
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> http://news.yahoo.com/9-famous-quotes-technically-grammatically-incorrect-065300736.html
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> You will be shockedshocked.
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> JL
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