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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I’m not entirely against it, but I’m amused by how common it is to put “whole” inside of “another”, making it “a whole nother”. Can anyone give any other use of the word “nother”?
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That’s called an infix, like a prefix or suffix, but, y’know, in. Some other languages use them often, but it’s just a few fun examples in English.
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Also called tmesis, which includes (as was also mentioned below in this thread), abso-fucking-lutely
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Pronounced like this
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