MISPRONOUNCERATIONS and other manglings of the English language
Please send me some of your own favorite mispronouncerations.
Popularized by George W. so many times you couldn't count them and embraced enthusiastically by politicians and other illiterate worldwide:
Nothing says, "I'm an idiot," quite as eloquently as saying NOOKYALER instead of nuclear like the rest of us. "There's no doubt that Sadam has NOOKYALER weapons."
When the helmet may not be the real problem:
PERIPHEAL "You know, when your motocycle helmet occludes your PERIPHEAL vision, and a truck hits you from outa nowhere."
MANGLINGS (more on manglings) Different than: You can be bigger than, smaller than, pinker than, rounder than, older than . . . but you must be different FROM.