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”.

        • Senal@programming.dev
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          22 hours ago

          It is, as well as being 3/4 of the provided usages and a large proportion of the examples.

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        I didn’t know what Merriam Webster is smoking, but the word fortis, forte derives from the Latin word for strength.

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          what Merriam Webster is smoking

          Remember, Noah Webster fucked English for America, and then somehow they made a dictionary to keep fucking it. Just exclude it from any kind of discussion.

          And, keep in mind, what’s popular has no bearing on what’s right. America has a chequered past with doing the wrong thing in great numbers.