This is a collection of things that, given another chance, the speaker might not have said, or at least might have said differently. We are all, of course, prone to blurting out things without thinking at least once in a while.

It also includes numerous examples of things that, well, lose something in the translation. With increasing globalization, local peoples around the world try earnestly to make their services or venues accessible to all. (The exception perhaps is the U.S., where we are too arrogant to bother translating much of anything).

Politicl talking heads are perhaps among the most prone to misspeaking, and, as with the most recent U.S. president, mistweeting.

And then, of course, are the things attributable to the dreaded autocorrect and predictive typing on mobile devices.

So please find below a treasury of ignorance, malapropism, misunderstanding and mistake. And before you lambast me that so-and-so-never said that, yes they did. I checked, or in several cases, I was around to hear it myself.

(Please note that Yogi Berra's entries are actually intentional - a matter of personal style.)

     --Steve