Is it too harsh to call people ‘Dumb-ass’ if they get these wrong?
Malapropisms seem to be rife these days. Is it because we communicate MORE by written text than we did twenty, thirty years ago?
Please feel free to let me know in the replies.
Could care less
Pacific
Colon
For all intensive purposes
Fall by the waste side
Irregardless
Escape goat
Peeked interest
Tender hooks
Should of
Nipped it in the butt
Beckon call
Case and point
Extract revenge
And today, I saw this – Oat cuisine
Another thing coming (as in, If you think that, you’ve got another thing coming)
Couldn’t care less
Specific
For all intents and purposes
Fall by the wayside
Regardless
Scapegoat
Piqued interest
Tenterhooks
Should have
Nipped it in the bud
Beck and call
Case in point
Exact revenge
Haute cuisine
Another THINK coming