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Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.
Example:
In America, recently came across "back-petal", instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".
Oh my goodness, someone pointed this out on Tumblr years ago, but it desperately needs repeating:
Dear English Language Fanfic Writers,
Wanton: an unrestrained desire, usually of a sexually nature.
Wonton: a type of dumpling found in Chinese and East Asian cuisine.
I wanton for wontons
In the USA and other English-speaking countries: weary =/= wary.
For example, I'll see someone write something like: "I am weary of the campfire because it is so hot"
You aren't tired of the campfire! You are wary of it!
Bet, i absolutely grow weary of sitting in the hot! Gotta go cool off by the river or something.
But your point stands.
I ~~could~~ couldn't care less
Hold ~~down~~ the fort
The proof ~~is in the pudding~~ of the pudding is in the eating
~~elon musk~~ Twat
"Hold down the fort" and "the proof is in the pudding" is how those phrases are currently used in the US, regardless of their origins, and they still make sense. "Could care less" is objectively wrong unless you're trying to indicate that you do kinda care.
The last correction is accurate.
I don't generally correct people's spelling or pronunciation but something I've noticed occurring more and more lately is people using "loose" when they mean "lose" and it gets under my skin for unknown reasons
It's a loose loose situation.
People capitalizing Random Words for emphasis, as if they're Proper Nouns.
Also getting 'a' vs 'an' wrong. It follows pronunciation, not spelling; so it's "a European" and "an honor".
In American English:
I left them know
I'm just leaving you know
No, no, a thousand times no!
You LET them know. You're just LETTING me know.
Also, they were driving and hit the breaks. Their car needed new break pads.
Just letting y'all know, it's BRAKES that stop a vehicle.
If the vehicle breaks, it'll stop, but that's not the system built into the car that makes it stop on purpose at the press of a pedal.
I don't do it that much anymore as I learned to enjoy the freedom of using language, but I recently watched a miniminuteman video where he says pause for concern. which kinda makes sense so it's an eggcorn: something that would cause concern would hopefully also make one pause for a moment.
apparently this is a commonly misheard phrase though this was the first time I heard someone say it.
i feel like we should be able to beat the living shit out of people intentionally spreading political misinformation.
Like im sorry, this may not meet instance rules, or whatever, but like, holy fuck, the amount of shit you can just lie about, without people asking question, kneecaps should've happened years ago, what the fuck are we doing bro.
Can someone explain DEI and Affirmative action? 99% sure the right is using it wrong, but I live in a red state.
When the right uses it, it means one thing, when the left uses it, it means a different thing. Just like "woke".
DEI is corporate speak for an office or initiative to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in a workplace. Diversity meaning not everybody there looks, talks, and thinks the same. Equity means that rules, compensation, etc., are fair for everyone, and inclusion means that people have a voice in decisions that affect them. Since historically, marginalized people have been black, female, indigenous, etc, DEI works specifically to correct unfairness towards them.
Since DEI is owned by corporate, there is only so much it can do to further these goals, and sometimes actively works to stall or placate people that have grievances with their workplace.
Affirmative Action is very similar, but usually specific to college admissions, compared to hiring workers.
I'm not an expert on DEI or Affirmative Action so if you want to know more about it try reading here:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-dei-practice-trump-is-trying-dismantle-2025-01-30/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
Best of luck!
Idk if this counts as a phrase, but on the internet, people talk about their pets crossing the rainbow bridge when they die. That's not how the rainbow bridge poem goes. Pets go to a magnificent field when they die. They are healed of all injury and illness. When you die, they find you in the field and you cross the bridge together. It's much sweeter the way it was written than the way people use it.
I did not know this, thanks!
