Timeline for "Intents and purposes" versus "intensive purposes"
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| Aug 19, 2010 at 11:25 | vote | accept | cthom06 | ||
| Aug 18, 2010 at 22:12 | comment | added | Alan Hogue | Both of these are stock expressions that don't mean much of anything anymore. That's probably one reason why people can use them interchangeably without noticing it. | |
| Aug 18, 2010 at 21:39 | comment | added | mmyers | @nohat: And thank you for introducing me to the world of eggcorns. I don't think I had ever heard the word before last week. | |
| Aug 18, 2010 at 21:37 | comment | added | nohat | It is, indeed, a classic eggcorn. #32, even, in the eggcorn database eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/32/intensive-purposes | |
| Aug 18, 2010 at 20:59 | comment | added | mmyers | I have to say, though, that I like neither phrase. They seem to be most often used as longhand for "practically". | |
| Aug 18, 2010 at 20:57 | history | answered | mmyers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |