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”.

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Having made some of these mistakes, I tend not to be rigid about them. But here are some fun ones.

    • on line vs in line
    • to graduate vs to be graduated
    • antivenom vs antivenin

    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.