Do you have such mistakes stuck in your mind?

[u/mEDIUM-Mad]

There is a song in my playlist with words

"Shut the gate and keep it shut"

But the word Gate (ворота) is plural in russian and i keep singing it alone like "keep them shut"

Does such mistake exist in your head?

[u/nervoussexystupid]

I mentally correct the grammar mistakes of English lyrics in kpop songs often.

[u/What_Mean1598]

I had a lot of mistakes like yours i think is normal when english is not your native language, i was practicing with my tutor skye about this topic but again i have mistakes again :)

[u/pavlenkovit]

Same family, russian native here. Hair is the one I still slow down on every time, because волосы is plural and my mouth wants "they are dirty". Money and news do it too. Knowing the rule never helped with any of them, it took hearing myself say it wrong out loud a lot.

[u/EducationalGur591]

Absolutely, That kind of mistake can get stuck in your brain, especially when you learned the phrase incorrectly and repeated it many times. Your brain basically memorizes the whole chunk as one unit.
And yes, your Russian example makes perfect sense: if ворота feels plural to you, your brain naturally expects “them” instead of “it.”

[u/YDALTARYZARC]

I like to reconjugate lyrics to sound like the hype crew. If a hip hop artist says something like "I'm the best around!" I'll say "she's the best around!"

[u/Constant_Hope_9658]

As a native speaker, my brain has autocorrect built into it, so it'll get just correct it as I absorb the information if something's wrong, plus since gates often come in pairs I can see where the error would sneak in when speaking (especially if the word acts like the word for "door" in Proto-Indo-European (which also is always plural, at least in the version the language and anthropology bois reconstructed)), and I've probably learned phrases wrong and done this with something else before myself, though not this specific example.

English is a very messy language, it's designed for you to be hard to misunderstand, rather than easy to understand (if that makes any sense?), so minor errors like that crop up from time to time, but most people just ignore or miss them, especially if it's not a regularly occurring thing they encounter.