I feel sorry for the English language, since there is apparently no end to the ways that illiterate idiots are willing to assault it. The phrase is, “by accident,” you fools! “On accident” is something that little kids say when they’re trying to explain why the cupboard door is open and the kitchen floor is covered with Cocoa Puffs.

By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident. By accident.

Get it? Something that happened inadvertently isn’t sitting on an accident, looking smug; it happened “by way of an accident”, which is precisely what “by accident” means. God, people are mind-bogglingly stupid.

EDIT: Stupider than I first thought. This is the second time in less than two weeks that I have read a reference to Anna Swan as having been that incredibly tall woman from Scotland. Now, I know they’re probably too stupid to understand that “Nova Scotia” is Latin for “New Scotland”,  and isn’t actually Scotland, or in Scotland, or near Scotland, or even on the same goddamned continent as Scotland, but I learned in elementary school that Anna Swan was born near what is now Tatamagouche (we actually had to write an essay about her), and unless somebody moved it whilst I wasn’t looking, Tatamagouche is still in northwest Nova Scotia, Canada. There isn’t even the confusion of more than one place called Tatamagouche; if you Google it, you’ll come up with Nova Scotia and nowhere else. The name comes from a Mi’kmaq word that I don’t remember, but it means “where waters meet” or something like that. The Mi’kmaq are indigenous to northeastern North America; nowhere near Scotland. In fact, two of my cousins are married to Mi’kmaq (Mohawks are much more attractive, and we have better cheekbones…hee!) Anna Swan’s parents were Scottish immigrants–lots of those in “New Scotland” then–but she was herself Canadian-born, and married an American who was also a giant. Jesus, have you dumbasses never heard of Google or even Wiki-fucking-pedia? I can’t read any more today…de stupid, eet ees too mosh.

Really, really tall, and not from Scotland, though she did visit there once, I think, when she was on tour with the circus freak show. Not many job opportunities for women nearly eight feet tall back then.