“Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won’t drown when we breathe.”
“When they broke open molecules, they found they were stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.”
Quotes from a collection of errors and malapropisms by junior-high, high-school, and college students, submitted by their teachers to Richard Lederer, a syndicated columnist. Many of the following appeared in his book The Revenge of Anguished English, published this year by St. Martin’s Press. (Harper’s, Dec 2005)