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”.
Lol exactly! I’m sure there’s gotta be some studies on this, with the prevalence of review-less written words all over the internet, and a lot of users interacting with it at a young age, or being newer to English, I’m sure there’s plenty of instances where they see it done wrong and just go “Hey that must be how it works!”
And it just spreads from there. But c’mon, this wouldn’t be so bad with a basic foundation in phonetics, folks! :(
I only wish:
I actually kinda appreciated the reddit bots that did this. They weren’t wrong and only the severest of simpletons goes ape on an automated script lol.