The English language is old. Like, really old. It’s old enough that its speakers use a good many idiomatic sayings that were thought up decades or even centuries ago and that use words people don’t really say much anymore. That can turn into a problem when those out-of-date words sound like other, much more common words. Especially if the sound-alike word makes a certain sort of sense in the context. Here’s the thing, though: It’s still wrong, even if it seems right.
7 Idioms Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
