• Re: Grammar pedantry

    From Adept@21:2/108 to alterego on Thursday, August 06, 2020 05:20:16
    setup than normal - and since it is (for all intensive purposes) a one

    Evidently "intensive purposes" is an eggcorn, which is a term I hadn't heard before (it's what "acorn" can sound like).

    Anyway, "intents and purposes" is the "acorn" way of saying the phrase.

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