Karlillo to Ask [email protected] • 10 months agoWhat's some common knowledge that you just found out recently?message-square104fedilinkarrow-up1123
arrow-up1123message-squareWhat's some common knowledge that you just found out recently?Karlillo to Ask [email protected] • 10 months agomessage-square104fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•10 months agoI thought it was “for all intensive purposes” until I finally came across it while reading, and I was reading a book a week for well over a decade at that point. That’s just the way it’s pronounced down here.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•10 months agoOne step closer to the origin: “to all intents and purposes”. If I use that, people are definitely going to look at me weird.
I thought it was “for all intensive purposes” until I finally came across it while reading, and I was reading a book a week for well over a decade at that point. That’s just the way it’s pronounced down here.
One step closer to the origin: “to all intents and purposes”. If I use that, people are definitely going to look at me weird.