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”.

  • @RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    02 months ago

    I’ve been told which is which 50 times and in 12 seconds I’m gonna have no fucking clue again so I’ll just pretend effect is the only option.

    • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      22 months ago

      Here’s one mnemonic l: most of the time effect is a noun, which use articles a/the. “The” ends with e and effect starts with e, so “the effect” lines up the e’s.

      Or you could try RAVEN: remember affect verb, effect noun