Where to begin, where to begin?
Is the "hawk" portion of "winklehawk" the same as the one Hamlet knows from a handsaw when the wind is southerly?
I was taught to count seconds "one chimpanzee, two chimpanzee" back when I was learning to drive. They said it took some number of seconds to pass another vehicle, and until we got a feel for judging the corresponding distance we should just count this way and find out if the oncoming traffic would "make a monkey out of us".
Don't know whether this goes with Meagan's "flustrated" or the definition of "lustrum", but I long thought that the word frustum (the portion of a cone or pyramid left when the apex is removed) was frustrum. Just made sense to me that it was the complete figure left "frustrated" by its non-completion.
Polish has exactly the same saying as Russian, only we didn't have a tsar, so in Polish it is the king who goes there on foot.
Forgot one, for quoteinvestigator.com:
We got into this over on alt.usage.english a few years ago, and a request was made to come up with a couple of similar-sounding words to distinguish the person who originally said something and the one who became famous for spreading it.
The pair I finally offered was fathered and furthered. There was resistance from one person at first to the idea that a woman could "father" a quotation, but eventually she decided to allow the metaphorical extension.
I grew up saying one, Philadelphia, two, Philadelphia, three, Philadelphia, ... etc. (Guess where.) Mississippi and one thousand were also used, but slightly less commonly.
I learned one thousand one, one thousand two… Now I often hear one one thousand, two one thousand…, and I trip over my tongue trying to imitate it.