Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.

Example:

In America, recently came across "back-petal", instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes".

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Oh, baseball! That makes much more sense.

For some reason I had assumed it came from tabletop gaming, where your model's base much touch another player's base in order to whisper to them

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