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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".
"The proof is in the pudding."
The actual phrase is: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
It means that your dessert might look and smell delicious, but if you fucked up the recipe, say by using salt instead of sugar, then it will taste bad. You won't know for sure until you eat it. So, a plan might look good on paper but be a disaster when implemented.
"The proof is in the pudding" doesn't mean anything.
Some weirdos write decades as possessive. Writing "90's" implies that there's a 90 that owns something.
It's not a decade thing. People do that anytime they're not sure if it's a "s situation" or a "ies situation", or confusing with some other plural problem.
As a non native speaker, it really irks me when people mix up "brake" and "breake", specially among car enthusiasts.
Every time I try to slow down my car, I hear chopped up and recontextualized Amens...
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.
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
"Its"
As "its" is used to indicate possession by "it", "its" is an exception to apostrophe-s construction as used to indicate possessive forms.
"It's", used as either the contractive form or the possessive form, does not require such an exception. The distinction between the contractive and possessive forms of "it's" rarely/never introduces ambiguity; the distinction is clear from context.
The word "its" should be deprecated.
