A common mistake is a term used in prescriptive grammar to describe an instance of faulty, unconventional, or controversial usage, such as a misplaced modifier or an inappropriate verb tense. common mistakes are so common mistakes but no one noticed them as a mistake.
This post has 25 phrases mistakes that every one thing is not mistakes. Phrases in this post are the most common eggcorn mistakes so let us clear the concept of the eggcorn.
EGGCorn
An eggcorn is a word or phrase that originates from a mishearing misconception or misinterpretation of another person, an element of the original being mismanaged for one which sounds very similar. (Nip in butt vs Nip in bud)
Common Mistakes
- On Accident/By Accident
- Nip it in the bud/Nip it in the butt
- Climactic/Climatic
- SASHCOMUN Rule
- Curl up in the feeble position/curl up in the fetal position
- Emigrate/Immigrate
- Phase/Faze
- Could care less/Couldn’t care less
- Irregardless/Regardless
- Converse/Conversate
- Scotch Free/Scot Free
- One in the same/One and the same
- Another thing Coming/Another think coming
- 360 Degree change/180 degree change
- Worse than the next/Worse than the last
- on next Monday/on Monday-next Monday
- For all intensive purposes/for all intents and purposes
- Momento/Memento
- Give a leadway/give a leeway
- Extract revenge/Exact revenge
- He did good/He did well
- Statue of limitation/Statute of limitation
- Expresso/Espresso
- Thanks God/Thank God’s
- Explain me this/Explain this to me
