Which Celebrities Make the Most Grammar Mistakes?

Which Celebrities Make the Most Grammar and Spelling Mistakes?

Amazingly, Kim Kardashian makes fewer mistakes than Stephen Colbert. I assume that's because (1) she has a ghost writer; (2) he often Tweets in a hurry or uses slang deliberately, as I do. I often use "ain't" in certain set expressions like "say it ain't so" or "t'ain't funny, (McGee)." Boy, that last one really dates me, doesn't it? Although the height of its popularity was in the 1930s and 40s, Fibber McGee and Molly was still on the radio when I was a boy, and the line "tain't funny, McGee" was reinforced off the air as well, because it was still being used in the everyday speech of my aunts and uncles, many of whom had listened to the show for decades.

Because my parents rationed my TV watching, I used to listen to Fibber McGee, Jack Benny, Gunsmoke, the Lone Ranger and many other shows in the death rattle of radio in the fifties. Thank heaven for those new-fangled transistor radios with earpieces! I can even remember The Shadow from when I was a very little boy, maybe five, just before it went off the air. It scared the daylights out of me. And by daylights I mean shit.

Another surprise in the grammar survey: professional musicians make more errors than professional athletes. I'm just guessing, but I think it must be because of punk and heavy metal types who drop out of school. (???) Classical musicians are generally well educated, but maybe they aren't included in the survey.

By the way, it probably doesn't make sense to use Twitter as a measuring stick of usage because the 240-character limit forces people to use neologisms and/or abbreviations, and sometimes eliminates punctuation. For example: if you have used 240 characters and need to add a period, are you going to rewrite the Tweet or will you just omit the period?