We’re all for being worldly, but we’re also amazed and amused by the wonderful mistakes people around the world make with that verbal stew known as English.  Here are some of the best we found on the Web, but feel free to send us your own discoveries.

Check it out: Asylum, via: GorillaMask

A lot of the English language seems to have been developed as some kind of elaborate practical joke. It’s full of little sayings and idioms that on their face make no sense at all, and if traced back to their origins are downright horrifying. Right or wrong, these 10 sayings have some of the strangest (and most unsettling) histories:

Check it out: Cracked