A high-school English teacher asks which is correct: It happened on accident, or It happened by accident? A survey by linguist Leslie Barratt at Indiana State University indicates that most people born after 1990 use on accident, and weren’t even...
If you use the expression on accident rather than by accident, it probably says less about where you live and more about how old you are. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “On Accident vs. By Accident” Hello, you have A Way with...