She jumped off, of the wall, next time she could just jump off the wall.
Still grates when I hear it,
I can’t stand it when people can’t distinguish between ‘fortunately’ and ‘fortuitously’ !
I can’t stand it when people say or write: ‘They want to have their cake and eat it.’ If you have a cake, of course you can eat it. And then it’s finished.
What they ought to say is: ‘They want to eat their cake and have it.’ This means you want to consume the cake and also still have it afterwards. You want to have it both ways.
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She jumped off, of the wall, next time she could just jump off the wall.
Still grates when I hear it,
I can’t stand it when people can’t distinguish between ‘fortunately’ and ‘fortuitously’ !
I can’t stand it when people say or write: ‘They want to have their cake and eat it.’ If you have a cake, of course you can eat it. And then it’s finished.
What they ought to say is: ‘They want to eat their cake and have it.’ This means you want to consume the cake and also still have it afterwards. You want to have it both ways.