For more than a decade, Ford executive Mike O’Brien kept a list of malapropisms uttered at work. The list served as an amusing method of team-building, and eventually filled more than five whiteboards with 2,229 linguistic breaches.

like the hilariously redundant “I’m not trying to beat a dead horse to death,” the definitely not food safety-approved “Too many cooks in the soup,” and the unintentionally macabre “He’s going to be so happy he’ll be like a canary in a coal mine!” That last one reportedly came courtesy of marketing manager Mike Murphy, leader of the board.

This story first appeared in the Wall Street Journal (regrettably paywalled here), which includes this image:

The full-size version is pretty readable.

Following that piece, O’Brien also made an appearance on NPR.