grammar earworm

[moominmolly]

For some reason, I've gotten a common grammar fault stuck in my head recently, and it's beginning to bug the piss out of me. I keep making it, too. I think I've done it five or six times in the past few weeks. I feel it fall out of my mouth just as it's too late to switch words in the hopes of making myself sound less dumb.

It's just funny. I really don't care when other people do this. I hear it, and it sounds marked, but it's common enough that I don't even bother internally bristling. Hooray for variation! But hearing it in my own speech... rrrrrh. And then I size up the people I'm talking to: did they notice how dumb I sound? rrrrrrh! It's like thinking you're fat, only stupider.

No, I won't tell you what it is. And yes, I'm sure I make all sorts of juicy mistakes all the time, anyway. (fishfoo...)