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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".
affect vs effect.
the usual case for effect is as a noun, and for affect, as a verb.
Just to clarify the exceptions to the general rule:
effect as a verb: to cause or bring about
This policy effects change.
affect as a noun: a display of emotion
She greeted us with warm affect.
I'm not entirely against it, but I'm amused by how common it is to put "whole" inside of "another", making it "a whole nother". Can anyone give any other use of the word "nother"?
It's other, another is a whole other issue... heh
Using weary/wary interchangeably. I am tired of people not being aware of the difference.
Also, "decimated". The original usage is to reduce by one tenth. It didn't mean something was nearly or totally annihilated, but thanks to overuse, now it does.
I mean, having one in ten of your fellow soldiers murdered by their own commander is pretty horrific, and I think that's the spirit of its modern usage.
"addicting"
"Chomping at the bit". It's champing at the bit. Horses champ.
"Get ahold of". It's "get hold of" or, if you must, "get a hold of"
"I'm doing good". No, Superman does good. You're doing well.
Haha is this a follow up on that one post with the OP writing "back-petal"?
You do things on purpose or by accident, you don't do anything on accident.
They're, you're
Sneak peek
In portuguese: mas/mais - people often use "mais" (plus, sum) when the correct would be mas (but)
Interchangeable then/than, or using 'on accident'.
Big 🤡 energy.
My pet peeve is when people use "then" but they actually meant to use "than". I think it might be mainly due to flaws in predictive text on phone keyboards though.
This one never gets me anywhere, but “begging the question” is actually a logical fallacy where you assume the result and use that as the basis of your argument. Otherwise, it raises the question.
Yeah /yĕ′ə, yă′ə, yā′ə/ is a different word than Yea /yā/
As in the well known Christmas carol, "Oh come, all ye faithful dudes," verse 7, "Yeah, Lord we greet thee, born this happy morning..."
"If worse comes to worst..."
In British English, they often say the phrase as "if worst comes to worst," which is based on archaic grammar.
In the US, there's a mix of verb tenses. The only one that make sense in this day and age is "if what is worse comes to be the worst," or "if worse comes to worst."
This point can be argued, but I will be severely wounded (maybe not so much as dying) defending this hill.
Having made some of these mistakes, I tend not to be rigid about them. But here are some fun ones.
All of the above have been normalized, but at one time was not.
Another quirk, we used to not call former Presidents President So and So. We used to call them by their highest position before president. So it would be Senator Obama and not President Obama.
I'm confused about the context of "on line" vs "in line"
Are we talking about standing in a queue, or using the internet, or one's behavior ("you'd better get get yourself in line!"), or auto racing terminology ("stay on your line" or "hold your line", often shortened to "stay on line")?
Doubt it's that last one lol but where are those two getting mixed up and how might they differ from "online" (internet) and "inline" (skates)?
Lol this is such a fun thread
Aisle. As much as I would love to take a boat to the breakfast food isle (a.k.a. island), I'm pretty sure that I need to look in the breakfast aisle at the grocery store.