[ExI] Putting a face with the name

[William Flynn Wallace]

“Could care less” is just a mistake, with its origin probably due to people
mumbling when saying “couldn’t”.

Now there's an idea.  I wonder just how many words have been mispronounced
and misspelled along the way and changed as a result?  Probably thousands.
And look at names:  most people in the past were illiterate and had someone
else write their names, so you get different spellings:  Smith, Smyth and
many more.

Errors of spelling and pronunciation and meaning drive the evolution of
language as much as anything, eh Don?

bill w

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:47 AM Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 00:33, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Which might lead some to ask the snarky question: Where do you waste
>> > time then? ;)
>>
>> I could care less. :P
>>
>> An odddity in the English language (meaning the people who use it), where
>> two opposite statements are taken by many to mean the same thing:  'could
>> care less', 'could not care less'
>>
>
> “Could care less” is just a mistake, with its origin probably due to
> people mumbling when saying “couldn’t”.
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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