What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?
What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?
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".
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Using “women” for the singular use. I don’t understand how this happens because it couldn’t be more clear if you sound out the word.
Woman = 1 person
Women = 2 or more persons
Why everyone resorts to only using “women” baffles me.
Not sure I've noticed this one. As in a singular woman is called "women" or people dance around calling a woman "women" or say lady or female or something other than "woman"?
I've seen people uncomfortable with saying "woman" for some reason, but haven't noticed if the same people say "women" or not.
I see it a lot in online comments. Not so much on Lemmy but other places like YouTube and Instagram.
I've seen this too! It baffles me!
It's like, "Hey if your sentence contains 'a women', or 'one women', you've got a subject-number agreement error." Lol
When my mom was in elementary school (in the 60s) she was taught that "woman" was not a word. That "women" was the only acceptable spelling, and that it was pronounced differently depending on context, but it was always spelled with an e.
That’s interesting, I’ve never heard that before. I’ll have to see, maybe I’m wrong lol.
Fairly sure that her teacher was just weird.
You're not.
Where did she grow up?
Columbia, South Carolina. Her teacher was just weird, I think.
You forgot "Every Woman= Chaka Khan and/or Whitney Houston"