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”.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    Look, I’ve been speaking English for work and pleasure for thirty years now and I’m here to tell everybody that prepositions in English are arbitrary conventions and it’s all mostly fair game.

    Unless you are trying to precisely identify the position of an object relative to something else, the “correct” preposition is a few years of consensus away from changing.