This one makes me nuts. The incorrect version means the opposite of the intent.

“I did a 360, I’m back on my bullshit”

I've never seen the incorrect version. That's just dumb!

This one annoys me, seems like a typically American issue. I think it probably comes from mishearing 'it was AN accident'

The word "buck" refers to a male native american indian. The phrase "buck naked" comes from the fact that back in the early days (pre 1900) male indians would be seen riding their horses to a river or stream to bathe or do what ever, and would be totally naked on the horse. White people would see them and thus the phrase "Buck naked" was born.

Finally. Thank you. AMEN. English isn't my family's first language on one side, and I've spent a lifetime explaining these things. I feel so happy I'm not alone....

Ever see my mom after an espresso? EXpresso ain't a bad description...

Espresso also doesn't mean it's fast in Italian like many think. It means the beans have been pressed out

As a Seattleite, hearing "expresso" is like nails on a chalkboard.

I cringe when people say less depresso more expresso. I resist the urge to scream.

Expresso is French for Espresso. Technically it is correct.

Expressing is what breast feeding mums do to have a little extra in the fridge for baby. So an expresso is surely a coffee with breastmilk in it.

Expresso is french

isn't expresso what they call the hurry up coffee service?

Haha. This mistake is EVERYWHERE.

so, the movie Sexpresso was kinda wrong?....

I say it every now and then to bug my wife :P

Essssspresssssoooooo

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Espresso is the Italian pronunciation but I hear expresso more often here in the US.

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This is incorrect. Expresso is correct in some places, and Espresso in others. Its like the word Colour.

lol nip a butt....how does it taste?

The term has nothing to do with the Scotts. It comes from old Scandinavian 'skatt fri', which means 'tax free'.

I don't think I've ever heard this incorrect version.

Sleight of hand and twist of fate, on a bed of nails she makes me wait 🎶🎶🎶

I've seen people write and assume it was "pick" my interest

I'm sure there are some people who feel like "ex-patriots" right now.

This one is misleading though because they are pronounced the same way. If you're saying them at least.

I always thought it described an easy penning. Say of sheep. No need to herd them into the pen, just give them a shoo and they go in by themselves.

Although you CAN say "give someone a piece of your mind," meaning chew them out.

Gets confusing when you get possessive. My brother-in-law's car is the car belonging to my brother-in-law, but what would you say for all the cars belonging to multiple brothers-in-law? My brothers-in-law's cars?

Wait uno momento.....

But what about Free Rain???

A lot of people online seem to be unable to correctly use superlatives.

never heard the incorrect one

Pangs is archaic, but yes, that's the conventional usage. Frankly, I've been hungry enough to hurt. It is not a pang. It was pain.

I think I've heard both...

lol, baited breath... that would be very strange...

Never heard this incorrect one either.

Do due diligence.

Wait, I've never seen the wrong one before, is that just me?

Oh! I thought it was "change track"

In Greece we say "one is worse than the other" when everything is bad and you can't tell which is worse

I use unfazed. But I'm not sure I've ever used faze in a sentence.

No it doesn't. The OED says: 1. Originally in Law, of a case, issue, etc.: proposed for discussion at a moot (moot n.1 4). Later also gen.: open to argument, debatable; uncertain, doubtful; unable to be firmly resolved. Frequently in moot case, moot point.

This is part of the phrase "make do and mend", meaning things are used in their current state or you mend them only sufficiently to make them work, nothing is replaced by new - usually used in reference to being poor.

" transitive verb To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone. transitive verb To make more keen; stimulate. noun Something that whets the appetite or desire."

And the hooks on a tenter are literally tenterhooks. There don't seem to be any phrases for teasels, but they are the seedheads of plant that were used to tease the wool. Together they form the coat of arms for Kendal, which is a town in Northern England which once had a thriving wool trade.

I can p**n off my tools. I can't palm off my tools.

Nope. No one says this.

Go Joe!