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Susie Dent admits she eavesdrops on strangers' conversations in the hope of hearing malapropisms

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 23, 2022
Dent (left) described how one individual in a coffee queue exclaimed that something was "the entire crotch of the matter," while another said in a text message that her boss was a "pre-Madonna." However, the Countdown whizz said that instead of the correct'said he' when singing hymns at church, she'll sing 'I am Lord of the Dance settee' instead of the incorrect'said he' (top right, Michael Flatly in the Irish musical Lord of the Dance). The lyrics, she explained, were about Jesus Christ dancing on a sofa, not the 1963 hymn Lord of the Dance. However, it is not limited to common phrases that Britons have erroneously mistook. People are often carried along by song lyrics. According to study from 2016, the top 40 most common misheard lyrics were found. Among them was a misquote of the main line of Starship's hit "We Built This City" (bottom right), with many Britons claiming that "We built this city on sausage rolls" rather than 'rock and roll.'