Comment on Patch this Bish!
Majorllama@lemmy.world 5 days agoAre both not acceptable ways of typing that out? I know I’m bad at punctuation, grammar and spelling, but I thought you could say you did something on accident or by accident interchangeably.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Nope, it’s just by accident. Must be a certain demographic that seems to have fallen into the habit of saying it as I never hear people use “on” in real life.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 5 days ago
juliatomiak.com/grammar-check-on-accident-vs-by-a…
Apparently “on accident” has been gaining usage and “by accident” is generally used by the older generations.
I’m 93 so I don’t know where I picked up “on accident” but until this day I haven’t had anyone say anything. How interesting.
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Must be just an American thing? I never hear anyone say it here!
Also, could you be on of Lemmy’s oldest users?!
Majorllama@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh no… I meant 1993 lol.
But I cannot blame you for thinking I meant 93 years old haha. Thats my bad.
I gotta remember to put '93 or just spent the extra few milliseconds to hit the 1 and 9 keys.
Once again my laziness bites me in the ass haha