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Which popular, though grammatically or logically incorrect, variants do you often hear in everyday conversations?

Like "he had another thing coming" and "I could care less", for example.
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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Nanori Depending on the dialect that could be counted as correct if the you is singular. In the North West of England there are probably stil a few people who use thou instead of you as the second person singular.
Nanori · F
@ninalanyon we aren't here to excuse😤 we are here to police
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Nanori If you intend to police English usage then you should make sure that you actually have jurisdiction. What is correct and idiomatic in one dialect is wrong or stilted in another.

Also, English like any other living language is in continual flux, what was regarded as absolutely wrong a century ago, might have been merely bad form fifty years later, and perfectly acceptable now.
spjennifer · 61-69, T
@Nanori "Is you is, or is you ain't mah Constituency"

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@spjennifer

Nothing less than a classic lyric 👍