9 Common Phrases English Speakers Get Wrong

hi out there in YouTube land i'mDrew

Badger and in this video we're going to

cover nine phrases that are commonly

misused by both native speakers and

english learners

the first one is coming down the pike

and this is often misheard and misused

as coming down the pipe people will hear

this is not coming down the pipe because

maybe coming down the pike doesn't make

a lot of sense to many people but the

expression refers to a truck or

something coming down a Turnpike which

is a word for just a large road and

often this is a toll road but anyway

we're talking about something that is

describing a future thing or what's

coming very soon so to use this

correctly you're saying that something

is coming down the pike when you're

talking about the future next people

often say I could care less about an

expression when what they really mean is

I couldn't care less if you say I could

care less and this just means what what

people are trying to say anyway is that

they don't care about something at all

but this is just a common way of

expressing that basically you're saying

that you care about something so little

like this tiny amount if anything that

you could not care about it even less so

you care about it to such a low degree

or such a low level that you can't care

about it less or even more so it sounds

kind of like a weird thing but people

often use this in conversations even

native speakers they will say I could

care less which actually means you still

have really to care less about that

thing so the correct way of using this

is I couldn't care less about this so i

couldn't care less about what I wear

every day for work I couldn't care less

so for me maybe I work at home on my

computer I can sit in my underwear or I

could wear a business suit it doesn't

matter so I couldn't care less about

what I where I couldn't care less

next this is an interesting one to

circumvent the globe what people are

actually trying to say is to

circumnavigate the globe when you

circumvent something both of these have

the idea of circles so traveling around

something circumvent and circumnavigate

but to circumvent means to get around

something typically a problem that you

might have like I'm trying to circumvent

my boss at work maybe he's a

like stopping me from doing something I

want to do so i have to go to a higher

level than him at work but to

circumnavigate the globe means you're

actually traveling around something as

opposed to you're trying to like get

around the earth like it's an obstacle

so you want to circumnavigate the globe

where the Earth's as opposed to

circumvent it next this is a really

common thing that people mistake and

this is to pique your interest but we're

not talking about the peak like the peak

of a mountain or talking about peaking

like you're peeking through a keyhole in

a door we're talking about to peak and

to actually be interested

so when you're talking about this in

conversations there's really no

difference because all of these words

piqué piqué and piqué they have the

same pronunciation but when you're

writing these things you actually want

to use it correctly

often when people will be using these

mistakes in their conversations again it

doesn't matter because you can't hear

anything you can't hear the difference

but when you writing it

people read that and think wow this

person really doesn't know what they're

talking about

so when you're getting your interest

piqued by something it means you're

you're increasing your interest in

something maybe you see something really

interesting and you're looking at that

you're captivated by that thing it is

piquing your interest and use the

correct spelling with that when you

write pique pique next to jibe with to

jive with something to drive with just

means you find it agreeable so it's

something you agree with something you

have no problem with you jive with a

particular thing like maybe like a

presidential example maybe like you jive

with what Donald Trump says are you

don't jive at all with what Donald Trump

has to say or his belief but this is

often confused with jive with and when

people are speaking in a conversational

casual way they will often use these

things very quickly to jive with to jive

with to jive with I really jag with his

views next to nip something in the bud

but people often say this as to nip it

in the butt

so they're saying but like dutt like you

know your butt as opposed to a but which

is thinking about like the bud on a

plant if you think about a problem

that's happening you don't want the

problem to get big and become really

difficult to solve so you want to nip

it in the bud just like trying to

destroy a whole plant or a whole long

branch it's much easier to do it when it

is a small but so if you can think about

nipping something like taking a small

cut just like you're a gardener and

pulling the little buds off of a plant

before they become large it's the same

idea of destroying a problem or ending a

problem before it becomes too big to nip

something in the bud to give something

in the bud next for all intents and

purposes for all intents and purposes

now this is an interesting phrase

because really intent and purpose mean

the same thing but this is just a common

expression that describes well for all

the reasons we want to do something or

for all the reasons that something might

happen but what people will often say is

for all intensive purposes now this is a

different way obviously you're

pronouncing something a little bit

different but it changes the meaning of

it so instead of intent and purposes

you're talking about intensive purposes

which is like really strong purposes

which doesn't really make much sense

so if you're using this be sure to use

it correctly for all intense and

purposes for all intents and purposes

next this is another common one that's

misused by people self-deprecating vs

self-depreciating now to depreciate

something this is the opposite of

appreciate where were maybe thinking

about reducing the value of something so

it kind of makes sense in the situation

but we're talking about self-deprecating

which is actually the word when you

maybe you tell a joke about yourself or

say something bad about yourself like

wow my hair is looking really bad or

like my ears are too big so you're kind

of taking the opportunity to to maybe

humble yourself a little bit with

self-deprecating humor or to say

something that is self-deprecating to be

careful when you're writing these things

because often like the spell checker

you'll be using when you're maybe typing

something it will give you the correct

word because depreciate or depreciating

is a word both of those are actual words

so you need to make sure just like

another common example is talking about

more van or more than ye be made this

like made this mistake a lot when I was

younger when you're talking about i like

something more than

something else but people often type in

war then now you don't want to use then

in this because it doesn't make sense

for the situation but it is the correct

word so it often won't be checked with

spelling so be careful when you're

typing these things out that you go back

and review the spelling of them self

deprecating is what you should be using

next another common one hunger pains

this is often misspoken as hunger pains

like you've got pains in your stomach

and you feel hungry and you should eat

something

so it feels like this should be a

correct thing to say you feeling some

hunger pains of hunger pains but really

paying is the actual correct word and

this describes the same thing so this is

one of those situations where if you say

oh I've got some hunger pains nobody is

really going to correct you in a

situation but if you're writing this

you're trying to use it in a much more

professional way you should be using the

correct thing which is hunger pain

hunger pains

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