Saying it wrong on porpoise Grant Barrett is now doing a weekly language column for the Malaysia Star , and this week he talks about saying things the wrong way on purpose — intentional errors like the Internets and coinkydink . The column got picked up by Jason Kottke's blog , where commenters are chiming in with their own examples. Just in case anyone thought this was a new phenomenon (hello again, Recency Illusion ), an article on "Intentional Mispronunciations" appeared in the journal American Speech way back in 1932. If you don't have access to JSTOR and you're not a member of the American Dialect Society , you'll have to make do with this recent summary by Larry Horn on the ADS mailing list : Margaret Reed (1932), "Intentional Mispronunciations". American Speech 7: 192-99. This covers what Reed took to be a fad among the "light-hearted youth" of Central Westerners (she's writing from Nebraska) to circulate...well, intentional mispronunciations.…