My favorite:

Richard wrote:but Brand Nubian does have the "Word Is Bond" single, so there's that.

perhaps they were trying to rectify this malapropism, in between giving beat downs to punks who'd jumped up.

I don't know if this was already mentioned, but I see "should of" instead of "should've" all of the time.

"He is the positive pineapple of politeness."

I hope I didn't miss someone pointing out "try and" instead of "try to". This may be a Central PA thing, but I hear it all the time.

"I'm-a try and get up-air later iss week."

atdarecook wrote:I hope I didn't miss someone pointing out "try and" instead of "try to". This may be a Central PA thing, but I hear it all the time.

"I'm-a try and get up-air later iss week."

Baltimore folk also speak that.

That's not specific to any region. We do that in England too.

Angus Jung wrote:

lemur68 wrote:Someone who was once very close to me would always say "mute point", meaning "moot point."

Yeah, this is a pretty common one. It's the sort of thing I was looking for when starting this thread.

-Person hears other people using the term "moot point."

-Person is totally unfamiliar with the word "moot." Has never seen it written down.

-Person believes he/she is hearing people say "mute point." They are able to believe this because replacing "moot" with "mute" almost conveys the same meaning, although it really doesn't, but you end up with something that almost makes sense.

At the heart of most malapropisms is a person who is comfortable saying things they don't understand.

Or who maybe have developed an alternate universe of meanings. A universe where some purposes are intense, and others aren't as intense, and for all intense purposes, it's a mute point.

The point may be moot, but I bet she's still watchin' him with those eyes--and lovin' him with that body, I just know it!

Eierdiebe wrote:btw, i can tell many of you don't listen to hip-hop all that regularly. "word is born" is used left and right, or at least it was at one point (illmatic, hard to earn, etc.)

Yo motherfucker
What the fuck you lookin' at
Yo, get out my motherfuckin' face right now
Yo man, trip this
I was out on the ave man
This dude wouldn't let me roll
So I pulled out my mother fuckin' nine
And I SMOKED HIS ASS
Woke up, didn't choke up
Saw my AK, it was broke up
Put it together like a jigsaw
Got my nine, and my Rambo knife off the floor
Went to the bathroom, and beat the rush
Yo, who the fuck used my toothbrush
Went to my sister's room, yo bitch, wake up
You stupid ass, dirty ass, nasty ass slut
Shot her in the leg, shot her in the thigh
Kicked her in the pussy and punched her in the eye
Slapped her in the head, stepped on her corns
Don't fuck with me bitch, word is born
Went downstairs to eat wit my folks
Ma, you broke my fuckin' egg yolk
Punched her in the chest, it got on her cheek
Then I did a sweep, knocked the bitch off her feet
Knee to the pussy, kick to the skull
AK y'all shot the bitch in the temple
Pop got mad 'cause mom got licked
I didn't give a fuck so I shot him in the dick
Hungry as fuck, said my grace
Pop kept screamin' so I shot him in the face
Ate my food, found my coat
Mailman came so I cut his mother fuckin' throat
Waitin' for the mother fuckin' school bus
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo Dres, yo Dres
Wake up man, wake up
What's wrong with you man
Yo, I had a mother fuckin' dream, man
What the fuck was the dream about Gee
I dreamed that I was hard


...thank you Black Sheep.

There's actually a bit of debate as to this being a malapropism or not. It's often thought to be from "word is bond" - but I had been under the impression that it started to come out of gospel. As in to testify, spread the word, the word is born with Jesus, sort of thing. However, I could be totally wrong on this one.

The Black Sheep are certainly using it in it's biblical sense in the above rap.

sleepkid wrote:
There's actually a bit of debate as to this being a malapropism or not.

There shouldn't be. There is no such term as "Word Is Born". What the fuck would that even mean?