Awesome Robwords

Have you been saying “pass mustard,” “for all intensive purposes,” or “wet your appetite?” You’re saying them wrong. Linguistic expert RobWords delves into these and other commonly misspoken phrases, which are often simply the result of mishearing words, much like that time we thought Kings of Leon were singing “Ohh, dyslexics on fire.”

When you want to read another language, you usually have to learn that language. But RobWords shows us a three simple tricks that English speakers can use to comprehend written words in French without having to understand the vocabulary. We wonder if other Romance languages have similar hacks.