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"What luxury item would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me." - Simon Cowell, in In Touch
Simon has used an incorrect pronoun. He chose the pronoun "me" to refer to the subject "I." When the subject and the object in a sentence are the same, a reflexive pronoun should […]
"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 […]
"There's a point in the day where I think, 'There's no point in me sitting here with the two of you, so just do it yourself.'" - American Idol judge Simon Cowell, answering the question, "Do [Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson] ever gang up on you?" in OK Weekly
There are three errors in this quote: […]