Where did the phrase  "Sadly Mistaken" come from?
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maybe it got coined from how wrenching it feels when one discovers they were irrefutably wrong.\n\nsorry, typo
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International Errorilogical Society!!\nWudm't it be cute if we had error messages like:\n"Whoopsie Daisy...aren't we a little too ambitious today?"\n"What do you think I am? A Super computer?"\n"Get an Abacus!!"\n"Consider it done, love"\n"You didn't give me much choice there, didya sunshine?"
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This odd phrase is similar to "oh my land," with the interesting addition of hailing the stomach-acid-reducing medicine.\n\n"Oh mylanta, it was bad!"
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It's believed to have been abreviated from Oll Korrect, used in Boston newspapers during the 1800's, as a deliberate misspelling of All Correct.\n\nApparently they liked using abbreviations apparently.
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Of course it is...Where do you think the saying "running around with your head chopped off" came from.
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Mistaken? Deluded? Mentally ill?
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The expression was originally "I couldn't care less."  It means "I care so little (i.e. not at all) that there is no way for me to care less."\n\nPeople started using "I could care less" by mistake, but eventually that became popular so now people say both.\n\nThere are lots of things in our language like that, where the "wrong" version eventually gets accepted.
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I don't know if there's much etymology of the phrase, but here's an article about it which puts forth some interesting possibilities of the origin.\n\nQuote from the site:\n\n"Some linguists and historians think the expression must have been well known during the war years, citing a story about General Eisenhower's dog. The story goes that the dog (Felix) urinated on a map and the officers joked that the enemy was "pissed off." (Leonard Mosely, Marshall, 1982)."
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The original quote was actually "Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them." The statement was made by George Santayana, philosopher, from Reason in Common Sense. \n\nThe quote has been tweaked a bit throughout history, perhaps to give a more modern and personal connection to the quote.
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wrong is always spelled wrong in a dictionary.\n\n(Ten points please :)
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Irregardless\n\nHundreds more at http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
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Transcription error from the original text, saying should have been "Grules are made to be broken" for the Germanic tribe to the east that Saxons raided and favoured as slaves..you see this is why people say cliches are dangerous. Seriously without rules and law comedy would be hard to come by..
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*** when they go wrong?  meaning?  like turn to a life of crime?  give us more.  i wanna understand!!!\n\n\n\nha ha...cesquaq down below makes me laugh
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this is what he meant\n   "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." \nhttp://www.filmstripinternational.com/
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My goodness, people jump the gun, don't they.  Don't feel stupid, because it is NOT a stupid question.  Answer 2 is correct.  It originated in INDIANA.  So "DUH" to the person that gave you a hard time.  Do research before you ridicule someone, sheesh!
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They generally say 'sorry' to let you know that you have annoyed them, eg, If you think they were in your way, and they have to move, they say 'Sorry'....  but what they mean is 'Look - I've done this for you'.\n\nEnglish people also have great difficulty talking to strangers - even if they too are English.  So the word 'sorry' has come to replace all the other things that one could have said in any given circumstance.
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In its simplest form it means what you don't know won't hurt you.\nIt's from Thomas Gray's 1742 poem, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" and the full quote is:\nWhere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.