Don't you love, love, LOVE "eggcorn"? I had been saying "for all intensive purposes" my entire life until the day I wrote it in an email. It wasn't until then that I noticed that it made little sense and found the real phrase. :)
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." -The Princess Bride
"You young people learned spelling by the Close Enough method." -Garrison Keillor "Finally, anyone who uses the words ‘irregardless,’ ‘a whole nother’ or ‘all of the sudden’ shall be sent to a work camp." -Stewie Griffin
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Don't you love, love, LOVE "eggcorn"? I had been saying "for all intensive purposes" my entire life until the day I wrote it in an email. It wasn't until then that I noticed that it made little sense and found the real phrase. :)
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