'Intensive purposes': An Eggcorn - Merriam-Webster

Is the phrase 'for all intensive purposes' or 'for all intents and purposes'? Senior Editor Emily Brewster explains. See more videos: www.merriam-webster.com/video
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  • @TylerMatthewHarris
    @TylerMatthewHarris3 жыл бұрын

    For all in tents, and porpoises.

  • @YoeyYutch

    @YoeyYutch

    2 жыл бұрын

    How about, "for all campers and aquatic mammals".

  • @VagabondTE
    @VagabondTE3 жыл бұрын

    I use this one on purpose. As in "for all of the purposes that are intensive". It's funny to me.

  • @GregoryTheGr8ster

    @GregoryTheGr8ster

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's good That is very good. I wish that I had thought of it, in fact. I am sufficiently clever to think of scuh witticisms, but I guess that you beat me to it.

  • @ugochi_art
    @ugochi_art3 жыл бұрын

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  • @MerriamWebster

    @MerriamWebster

    3 жыл бұрын

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  • @syedmeer3930
    @syedmeer39302 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @GregoryTheGr8ster
    @GregoryTheGr8ster3 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see "frall" become an eggcorn. For example: "Frall it's worth..."

  • @lindasalazar6162

    @lindasalazar6162

    2 жыл бұрын

    Tribulationv

  • @playinmyblues
    @playinmyblues Жыл бұрын

    As I was watching the video, it occurred to me that I had associated the presenter’s name with the name of the dictionary. It was an incorrect association brought on by a similarity and a mental transposition. Ms. Brewster, what might be the name for that - not quite an eggcorn?

  • @delsmith885
    @delsmith8853 жыл бұрын

    Yup

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    @mustbe7channels9972 жыл бұрын

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  • @shibleeselim8987
    @shibleeselim89873 жыл бұрын

    Ok

  • @tarmidicreatorfamily5512
    @tarmidicreatorfamily55123 жыл бұрын

    Like INDONESIA

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    @muhammadkazarinbinazraikoj3146 Жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @robinsonrobinson1723
    @robinsonrobinson17232 жыл бұрын

    Robinson

  • @wellenajohnson2797
    @wellenajohnson27972 жыл бұрын

    Voice pronounced

  • @wellenajohnson2797

    @wellenajohnson2797

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pronounced word