News You Can Bruise for 2006 February 20

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For a while I've been looking for a word or phrase that has a very common incorrect variant. So common an incorrect variant that you can't use the naive "Google them both and see which one gets more hits" trick to figure out which one's right. But not so common that descriptivists would argue that the "incorrect" one is actually right because that's how people use it. Anyway, I finally found one: Aye, there's the rub gets 127k hits, and Ay, there's the rub gets 150k.

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Posted by Nutella at Tue Feb 21 2006 22:53

"Abandon all hope ye who enter here" 35.4 k [correct]"Abandon hope all ye who enter here" 41.8 k [popular misconception]

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