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Chris -- 2025-05-10
My former boss used this so often that I finally told him it was incorrect. Still, he continued to use it both in writing and in speaking. It made my ears hurt. Even if he’d used the correct word, he was still using the phrase incorrectly most of the time. But that’s another issue.
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