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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Catherine: "If I have to… we'll do it."

"I'm very proud that we now have our own dedicated children's hospital in Wales, but there's a long way to go. If I have to lock people up and steal their money, we'll do it." - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine has made an error in pronoun number shift. She begins the second sentence with a dependent clause […]

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Joy: "Who am I going to fight with now?"

"Who am I going to fight with now?" - Joy Behar, about The View co-star Star Jones, who has announced her departure from the show
Joy has made an error in pronoun case. She has used the subjective pronoun "who" as the object of the preposition "with."
When an interrogative pronoun ("who," "whom," "whose," "which," "what") is […]

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Kate: "making sure the cape laid perfectly"

"He had people constantly picking at him and prodding him and making sure the cape laid perfectly." - Kate Bosworth, on her Superman Returns costar, Brandon Routh
Kate has made an error in diction. She has used the past tense of "lay" instead of the past tense of "lie."
In the clause "the cape laid perfectly," the […]

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Simon: "the absolute funnest show"

"I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's the absolute funnest show you could make." - Simon Cowell, in Entertainment Weekly, on his new variety show, America's Got Talent
Simon has incorrectly used an adjective to modify another adjective. The modified adjective is itself a colloquialism.
The word "funnest" is becoming increasingly more common in […]

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Jonathan: "you feel you own a little bit of that person"

"You're putting yourself out there in the public eye and selling what's essentially your personality, so if the public buys you for 12 bucks in a movie and pays for popcorn, well, you feel you own a little bit of that person." - Jonathan Rhys Meyers, in British Glamour, about fame

Jonathan has used the pronoun […]

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