50 Times People Failed To Use The Correct Words And It Resulted In These Hilarious Mishaps (New Pics)
It all started with a silly picture. On August 1st, 2016, a screenshot of Facebook user Dunta Pickett's post started going viral, in which he shared a photo of his birthday dinner, wishing himself "bone apple tea" instead of "bon appétit".
The phrase became an instant internet classic and after just one month, a subreddit of the same name was born with the purpose of collecting examples of people failing to find the right words to express themselves. Eventually, 'Bone Apple Tea' grew into a 1.2 million-member community, and judging from the amount of fresh content it generates, that number will only get bigger.
So even though we at Bored Panda have already shown you some of our favorite gems we found on the subreddit in our earlier publications here, here, and here, we just had to do a new one. Enjoy!
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Takin A Bath
But he's on the right track. Bathing will enhance your romantic prospects.
Or, they really don't understand the expression. There are so many that are routinely slaughtered. They did try twice... with identical results... go figure!
Load More Replies...Criminalized Onion
this onion may look innocent, but he’s serving a lifelong sentence for grand theft auto, arson and vehicular manslaughter—you can’t trust anyone nowadays.
The misuse of a word that has a similar sound to the correct one is officially called a "malapropism." It's surprisingly common, particularly within the extensive English vocabulary, and, as we can see, often occur in everyday speech. But authors will sometimes use a malapropism because of its humorous effect as a literary device.
The term comes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals. In it, the character Mrs. Malaprop does exactly that—replaces words with humorous alternatives to produce a laugh. Mrs. Malaprop was likely named after the French phrase "mal à propos," which translates to "incorrectly or poorly placed." In English, the borrowed word is written as "malapropos," meaning "inappropriate or inappropriately."
One synonym for "malapropism" is "dogberry," which also comes from literature, in this case, William Shakespeare. In Much Ado About Nothing, the character Dogberry also frequently utters malapropisms for humor.
Al Gore Rhythm
It took me a while to figure out why Al Gore has a rhythm. I figured out and now my tummy hurts because of runaway laughter.
I used the Al Gore Rhythm method in my twenties and all my kids grew up to be environmentalists
The Aarons
Currently in class and a guy named Aaron is sitting behind me ._.
Load More Replies...My dad's name is Aaron, and when he ran errands, I always thought they were "Aarons". Don't ask me what I thought when my mom did.
Lemonade These Papers
He tried calling but his rotisserie phone doesn't work with an automated answering service
I agree... we can hope these people don't reproduce... but we all know they do
Load More Replies...the duck walked up to the laminate stand and he said to the man, running the stand, hey (bakbakbak) got any grapes?
Some people think they can substitute any word for another and the rest of us should just accommodate them. I have a client that texts me all the time without checking what the speech to text has written. I have to read his texts out loud and try to figure out what he dictated originally.
Ha! I’ve had conversations like that when I worked at a small stationary store - not the lemonade part, though we did laminate items. But people coming in and trying to describe an item they are looking for and it took forever to figure it out from their weak and often misleading descriptions. Then you’d have the a-ha moment and say, yes, right over here!
The shopkeeper should've just proceeded to pour lemonade over the papers.
A more recent popular example comes from the late 1970s, when English comedian Les Dawson took advantage of the popularity of Polaroid's instant cameras which were all the rage at the time.
Dawson had created an alter ego called Cissie who was prone to making silly comments. In a much-loved episode of his show, Cissie refers to "one of those paranoid cameras."
This hilarious bit may well have been inspired by Dawson’s signature comedic device – his piano playing. He was an accomplished musician but would deliberately play the wrong notes in his performances.
A B*tch You Worried
Maybe they did, but their reading and writing was so poor that they didn't realise?
He Do Be Coffin Skate-Ing Tho
Yep, all the time! Then take it out for some freestyle parcour. Watch my moves with your coff!
Oh Edda. I'm giggling at your comment. Thank you for that.
Load More Replies...Shocking that a teacher actually wished you'd pay attention in class when you are already so well educated. /s
All Tomato
This happened on the show community. One of the characters thought ultimatums were about tomatoes
There was an Abbot and Costello skit with, I'm going to send them an old tomato!
When my brother and SIL first got together, my brother used the phrase "Land O Goshen" a lot. It means surprise, alarm, dismay, etc. It was also used in the old Barney Google cartoon strip. One day my SIL finally asked him, why are you always saying "Atlantic Ocean"? I don't know what that's supposed to mean.
Mosquito Skeleton Society
I assume what's happening here is a set up. The mosquitoes are starving cuz there's no meat on the skeletons, so they're bringing in new blood.
i have lots of mosquito bites and they love me so im a skeleton so i am a mosquito skeleton
Sometimes these slips of the tongue have unfortunate effects. A stream of broadcasters have slipped up on national TV and radio over the name of British politician Jeremy Hunt and have replaced his surname with a similar sounding, impolite word.
Linguist Patrycja Strycharczuk explained that this phenomenon may occur as the person is anticipating an upcoming word starting with a similar sound (such as “Conservative Party” or “Culture Secretary”). There is also the fact that a rude word is memorable and may accidentally pop in.
Caucasian
No, when you have a Cardassian, it's another part of the body that starts swelling.
Load More Replies...My 11 yr old niece tried to order her own food at a seafood restaurant like a big kid, she said "can I get that with the Caucasian seasoning" LOL oh child
Closed For Personal Circumcisions
Is there also impersonal circumcision? How does that work? Is it a group circumcision?
Impersonal circumcision is when a pissed off woman takes revenge ;)
Load More Replies...Bet autocorrect got them there and they didn’t proofread before printing. Sometimes we see what we expect to see.
‘Currently I’m Into Essential Oil Diffusers And Incest’
Brings a whole new meaning to "F*ck yo smelly kids" but it does raise the question of if their last name is either Targaryen or Lannister
The royal families in Europe seem to think so...
Load More Replies...Organic Butterfly
Look, I’m a Swede so English obviously isn’t my first language - but since “organic” starts on a vowel, shouldn’t that be “an”? Also, on a side note, shouldn’t that be “origami”? (Unless they meant “money moth” or “moolah insect” or something, but neither of those sound very much like “organic” so it seems less likely.)
The joke is that it should have been origami, rather than organic. And while English is my second language as well, I do believe that you are correct. It should have been "an organic" not "a organic", but people on the internet do not always use their own language accurately.
Load More Replies...Give me a bag of those butterflies and I'll call them organic all day and all night
As University of Essex linguists Amanda Cole, Connor Youngberg, and Faith Chiu pointed out, what is often referred to as "mispronunciations" or "slips of the tongue" are not just embarrassing mistakes, they can also be language changes in action. In fact, sometimes mispronunciations become so common that they become our normal way of speaking. (In parts of the US, people may be heard to regularly say "perty" as opposed to "pretty".)
A historical example is the word "apron" which actually comes from the Middle English "napron." It derived from the French naperon (small table cloth), but over time, people turned "a napron" into "an apron," resulting in the word we know today.
Someone Needs To Tell Friday We Need Gas
He kept saying "Just the facts, mam, just the facts."
Load More Replies...Hey, Friday! Friday, where you at? Ain't no gas. We gotta go somewhere else.
Not For Grandad
Shelf And Steam
I suffered from low shelf, I hit my head on it and now I have a caucasian!
Just don't tell Friday you have a caucasian... he might coffin skate the shelf.
Load More Replies...I would suggest bending at the knees when steam cleaning that low shelf. Don't want to suffer with your back.
My Ex once said he had low "self of steam..." and realising his error said "I'm a sad kettle"
Alpaca Lips
Had a colleague who tried to remember the horsemen and came up with death, famine, war and "petulance". I loved the idea of people dying out of spite :)
In 'Good Omens' by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, there are four people who tag along with the actual Horsemen, and they become Stepping in Dog Shite, Things That Don't Work Even After You've Given Them a Good Thumping, Really Cool People, People Covered in Fish, and loads of other annoyances they decide to embody (they keep changing their minds).
Load More Replies...I'm surprised someone can be familiar with the word "alpaca" and not "apocalypse." The internet has done strange things to people's vocabulary.
Omg I said alpaca lips over and over trying to figure out what they might mean..... apocalypse seems so far off from how alpaca lips sounds.... how did this even happen?!?
Load More Replies...I think it's Llamas that spit, but I could be wrong.
Load More Replies..."Speech 'errors' are a great resource for linguists," Cole, Youngberg, and Chiu wrote. "They tell us about how people use and process language. They can also sometimes tell us about how language might change. This poses the question: how many people have to regularly 'mispronounce' a word until we begin to consider that the new pronunciation is just the regular, normal way of saying it?" So maybe 'Bone Apple Tea' is actually a glimpse into our phonetic future!
Gin Knee Pig
It's when I''ve had a few too many and am trying to take off my shoes ;)
Load More Replies...I was more confused than anyone. I thought the pictures were meant to spell a word and the guy thought the guinea pig was called gin, a duckling a knee and a terrapin a pig. I just couldn't comprehend how someone could be so thick.
Horrors Cope
'They're not going to help you when the crab people come.' Horrors cope sounds about right!
When I was a kid, my dad told me he had holes in his socks from crabs nipping them. We lived nowhere near the sea. For a long while I imagined crabs scuttling up the motorway for days on end just to eat my dad's socks. I had trouble coping with the horror.
Load More Replies...Well, if the crab people really are coming, it actually IS a “horror scope”.
Wait! I can live with "horror scope," but who the hell are these crab people and when are they coming??
Don't worry, Bouche will pounce the crab people.
Load More Replies...“Horrors Cope” - kind of sounds like a village or a house. A village or a house that you never, ever, under any circumstances EVER get closer to than two hundred miles. People in the closest villages and towns never talk about it to strangers, but whisper to each other about ‘the horrible sound of giant claws snapping, of ‘the men from under the waves’, Horrors Cope lies by the sea but there are no tourists on the beaches, you see none of the locals out in boats, nobody fishes near Horrors Cope. Not anymore. There are things, waiting, awful things, lurking under the glittering surface of water, terrors in the dark. ‘Men’, whispers the locals. ‘Crabs’, whispers the locals. Stay away from Horrors Cope, stranger; or you’ll stay forever.
I think when the crab people come you will indeed have to cope with the horrors.
Call The Corner
If you met the driver you also wouldn't expect logic or reason.
Load More Replies...Sorry, but whom is this addressed to? And what are they hitting the car with? Another driver hits it with their car? Passer-by hits it with their bag? Shooter hits it with their ammo? Birdie hits it with bird poo? All of the above? That corner, wherever it is, is going to get busy.
Buddy, you're going to have to be more specific, which corner are you talking about?
Very Nice Mid Evil Chair
Granted, the spelling of medieval can be a stumper if you’ve heard it but never seen it in print. Stumped me in a fifth grade spelling bee.
Sorry For The Incontinence
Wyoming is a very "red" state, so they are probably blaming Biden for this.
Load More Replies...Well boss, that’s what happens if you continually p**s on your employees.
I was thinking the managers or owners have incontinence and that's why all the staff quit.
Load More Replies...One is also the other, the other isn't [necessarily].
Load More Replies...Pain Apple
Actually it is. Pineapple contains an enzyme called Bromelain that breaks down protein. It's literally breaking down your mouth 🤓
Load More Replies...I get pimples on my tongue whenever I eat pineapples, so it's still true.
“She’s Cake” - I Was Toll Define Members Of This Sub Would Enjoy This
Maniac on the floor And cheese dancing like cheese never danced before
Load More Replies...Calling Flower Taste Like Ribs
I will look you dead in the eyes and tell you how silly that is. Calling flowers taste like chicken.
... and, on Valentine's day, I gave her a nice selection of Tastelikechicken. Her favourite flour!
Load More Replies...I am vegan and no one who has ever tasted ribs will tell you they taste the same as cauliflower.
Right? I'm getting really tired of all that vegan hate
Load More Replies...Actually, I find that almost impossible to believe. I don’t think there are any vegans on the planet who’d look you straight in the eye and say that.
Ne. We won't ... but, it seems to be fun to a certain kind of people to make-up silly and ridiculistic accusations of ... basically everything.
Load More Replies...Walked Right Pasta Me In Her Linguine!
Chicken Case Of Ideas
I can read it as often as I want, I can not read Quesadilla
Load More Replies...Huh? Did I just have a stroke “reading” that? Should I chew aspirin or is that for a heart attack?
Violent
'Warning! This may cause violence if used by the beginning-violencists!'
How could someone that dumb think they could learn to play the violin. No wonder they're selling it
Well, in the1920-30s, the gangsters did conceal their guns in this type of case
As a cello player too, it's more of the pegs hitting the back of your head and hair getting caught in the springs for me
Load More Replies...Martin Luthier? There's too so much Saxon violins on TV these days! (A luthier makes violins. Martin Luther was German...)
Skin
Accept The Feet
Portal Potties
Brits get Tardis. Americans get Portal Potties…shouldn’t have rebelled 😂
You youngsters and your portal potties. When I was a kid we only had Calgon to take us away and that was good enough for us.
Well that's one way to deal with waste. Just send it through the portal! Be some pissed off folks in another dimension though. 😂
Arthur Writes This
Arthur isn't writing beause his hands and wrists hurt so much.
Load More Replies...First name terms with his Doctor, that's nice. Must be writing his prescription
What do ya mean Dutch? Are you ready to pull that bank job in saint denis?
Load More Replies...Alvin And The Chick Mucks
I thought they were Chick Monks... You know, the girls who take vows of silents at the monster-dairy.
The muck chicks leave behind in the farm yard is no fun to clean up.
Laughing Historically
Since they're using the past tense, it did occur in recent history.
It must of been a pretty loud laugh to go down in history or there was something about it.
My Man Said First A Fall
or a bankrupting hospital bill? English is so easy.
Load More Replies...A friendly reminder for everyone that puts their Christmas decorations up super early.
Super Observant… On Wet Surfaces
Is it spying on us? Taking photos and posting it on the net? Just observing, like a nature Lover observes a lion eating a gazelle?
Load More Replies...I mean when you think about the point of view a bathmat normally has...
When I come into the bath, that poor mat is going to run away with its eyes covered.
Head Lice For Sale
So… Are the lice so unbelievably powerful that they claw sustenance from cars, digging into the metal, or are the lice the size of Fords? No, wait. I don’t want to know. I do NOT want to know.
May Body, May Rules
May someone gift you and your tattoo person dictionaries. Can't blame that on autocorrect!
Okay, who’s responsible for that? The client or the tattoo artist? Maybe they should have a rule that any phrases get spell checked before they begin. That’s just dumb.
Say it in a really posh Brit accent and it makes sense - you rang milord?
I Mean, I Assume Haiti Is Hot Too
No, I think he says that what he's saying is correct
Load More Replies...Beware The Green Reaper!
Sally Manilla
Sally is a nice girl. Why would you avoid her? Her dads a singer, Barry
I had a friend who thought that Pop-Tarts had salmonella in them. How does that work?
Yeah you know Sally manilla up the street you got to watch out for that one she bad on your health
When my aunt was a nurse, somebody came into the ER claiming they had Sam and Ella.
Larva Lamp
LOL. I wonder if that person is just writing that based on how people around them pronounces that word. My sister had a friend whose parents were from Tennessee. Her friend picked up some of the dialect from her parents of course. It would crack my sister up when her friend talked about " 'worshing' the dishes".
This post seems to imply that that there are quite a few larva lamps out there all over the place...
Maybe that's how some British accents say 'lava' and the person was spelling it phonetically? I don't know.
Milk Which Inspires
Me: *Sits at desk writing* Milk:*leans over shoulder* You should get that published. It's genius! Me: It's my shopping list. Milk: I like the ending. Me: What, 3 litres of milk?
There's a painting of a gallon of milk leaning over St Matthew's shoulder inspiring him to write the gospel... I saw it in a museum once.
Load More Replies...“… And I would like to thank everyone who helped getting me here, with special attention to my greatest inspiration, my constant muse, ladies and gentlemen; my packet of milk!”
Monogamy Dresser
Introduce it to the night stand and see what happens.
Load More Replies...Job Requirements: Be A Ghost Rider
Answer the phone as well? This is a nightmare job where they'll dump absolutely everything on the person they hire.
Build Board
I find it offensive that they used the “greater than” symbol to say that tequila is greater than drugs
it really depends on the context. for example if i hit you with my drugs then hit you with a bottle of tequilla then i am sure you would agree the tequilla was the better weapon
Load More Replies...There is a lot going on here and the grammatical error is the least of it.
Commitments
Wait 'til he finds out they're actually called "condom mints." (Well, not spelled that way, but still...)
And when you want condiments, they don’t give them anymore. Who here has saved the plum sauce and soy sauce packets from Chinese food orders for years, thinking they would use them one day?
They've got bigger issues than unwanted condiments. Try and make your own food occasionally. Blimey.
This thread has affected my brain please help WHAT ARE THEY ACTUALLY CALLED I CAN'T REMEMBER 😭
There's nothing wrong with the commitments - they just want you to try a little tenderness ... on your burger.
If You Incest
What better way to convince someone is a vegan than to make a salad your avatar? :D
You immediately follow calling her a hateful misogynist slur with a claim that you're a "good guy". Wow. No self awareness.
I'd have blocked this a*****e after the first two messages. F**k him, but not literally.
Maybe it's just me, but I assume that if I were to call a girlfriend a b***h, the relationship would be over. Or if it were a single woman I was into, calling her a b***h would kinda guarantee no second date. Is this really how men talk to women they're attracted to?
There are TWO trending articles on BP today that would happily mock this a-hole’s messages.
Uncle?
Cousin that case, it could hurt clear up to your niece.
Load More Replies...Dude you can’t be giving out free foot pics in this day and age, smh
Grammar aside, why would someone just post this on social? Does anyone care? Does someone reply that is just as as bored on social 🤔? I don't know because I haven't used it since 2015.
“A Soon”
For a second i wondere why the word rude was censored. And then it hit me 7 minutes later.
For All Utensil Purposes
Lol they definitely could start a new holiday with this idea. But if I was a homeowner and someone brought their pet dressed up in costume to trick or treat, I wouldn't give them candy.
I have dog treats available on Halloween for just this purpose! My dog hates wearing costumes, but she loved seeing the dogs who come around with trick-or-treaters.
Load More Replies...Pan Flip
Like what you do when you're making a pancake.
Load More Replies...Oh No Not The Angular Fish! Another Angle Has Gained Its Wings
WHERE THE **** DO ANGLER FISH WASH UP ON THE FRICKIN' SHORE????
I know right? They live in the very deepest depths of the ocean, so I can't imagine how they would get washed up. I know they sometimes get caught in fishing nets, so maybe that's what happened?
Load More Replies...Egomaniac Chair
If the a*****e boss—-and the boss’ a*****e, tbh—-is sitting in it, then it truly becomes an “egomaniac chair”.
If an egomaniac sits in that chair, will they become a megalomaniac?
10 The Grease Outside
I'm wondering if some of these are due to voice to text programs?
Load More Replies..."Hey!! Do you know where 50 the grease is?" "The temperature or the actual thing ma'am?"
I Was Going To Try To Live Bi Curiously Thru You
It’s always good to experiment with your sexuality when you’re young imo
Meat Or Shower
"I am gonna choose meat, obvi, shower is soo ick!! What about you?"
Womb
Fella, if you were born male but have a womb, even an open and salt covered one, get yourself checked out by a doctor. Several doctors, come to think of it. Because you are going to be rich and famous!
Girl Looks Four Meal Your
I think that one broke my brain. I understood their meaning, but after reading "for meal your" three times in a row I couldn't remember the real word. (Yes, before you ask, I have since remembered 'familiar'.)
Thank you my brain is broken I couldn't figure that out
Load More Replies...Shrimps Camping
Open Says Me
Not gonna lie, fully knowing it is open sesame, I still say "open says me"...
There's an old Popeye cartoon where he meets Ali Baba, and they clearly enunciate 'open says me' every time.
Load More Replies...Why do I have to say the 'says me' part in an Italian accent 🤨🙈🤣
Center Blocks
In Mzansi we call them "breeze blocks" and for years I thought they were spelt all fancy, like "brieze blocks" or something.
Hashtag Floor Less
Rush And Roulette
Break Paddle? I Sure Hope He Didn’t Break It!
Well, maybe he tried to drive into the lake to retrieve his “break paddle”.
Afro Dizzy Act
Chicken Permission
Oh Count Rare
it really is, because he admits he was wrong while still being funny and right
Load More Replies...I Believe This Is An Oregon
He’s So Post To Be Dead
I know right... it probably scrambled their brains a bit.
Load More Replies...“Up Notches”
With Autumn
Switching Up Permissions For You
Parmesan. I'm guessing he's talking about chicken wings.
Load More Replies...Is it me or did anyone else find these really hard to read?? Maybe I'm just too well educated 🤣🤣🤣
Had to slow down and sound out each one HAHAHA
Load More Replies...A lot - or at least some - of these could be caused by predictive text. I check what I've written now as sometimes it changes things to gibberish in the middle.
Some of these are due to autocorrect, but many are not. English is not the language I grew up with, but I have noticed that native speakers make mistakes I never do. Eventually I realized that while English is not my native language, I read a lot, so I have the opposite problem of using the correct words but mispronouncing them often. Bottom line: a lot of people don't read. That's how you end up with "She Cake" from "Cheesecake".
Is it me or did anyone else find these really hard to read?? Maybe I'm just too well educated 🤣🤣🤣
Had to slow down and sound out each one HAHAHA
Load More Replies...A lot - or at least some - of these could be caused by predictive text. I check what I've written now as sometimes it changes things to gibberish in the middle.
Some of these are due to autocorrect, but many are not. English is not the language I grew up with, but I have noticed that native speakers make mistakes I never do. Eventually I realized that while English is not my native language, I read a lot, so I have the opposite problem of using the correct words but mispronouncing them often. Bottom line: a lot of people don't read. That's how you end up with "She Cake" from "Cheesecake".
