Dear other native speakers - what's a funny mistake you've made while speaking?
I used to teach TESOL, and whenever my students would get frustrated with not doing something perfectly I'd assure them that native speakers have sentences that come out wrong all the time (especially when we're tired or distracted!) For other native speakers, do you have a particularly funny example of a time that you said something wrong in English?
I was once holding an old, damaged tupperware with a crack in the bottom of it. Wanting to tell my husband that it was time to recycle it, I said "I think it time to be recycle."
Just now I was looking for something and wondering where I would've put it, but what came out of my mouth was "where would I have putten?"
One more classic example is a 'spoonerism,' where the first letters of two words get mixed up. My friend and I were hiking and saw an interesting bird, I thought it was probably a quail or a pheasant, but what I said was "It looks like a fail or a quesant."
For anyone out there struggling, just know that even native speakers mess up this crazy language sometimes.