Language is always changing. At one point ‘an apron’ was ‘a napron’ while words like ‘literally’ are no longer literally literal. What are some language battles that have been lost in living memory and what are some others you predict will soon occur?

Edit: Non-english examples very welcome!

  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    We were always supposed to put punctuation inside quotation marks;

    Isn’t this a US English thing? In India we were taught to close them like brackets - i.e., the one that opened last closes first. So

    ‘Don’t wait. I will come later.’

    But

    He said ‘I will come later’.