I remember it well. The Morton salt slogan was (is?) simply "when it rains it pours." The older proverb was probably too negative (and long) for their...

In the right context, I prefer this usually unintentionally apt usage. Such as in this bit of Harry Potter fanfic:

Heimhenge said Welcome to the forum, toptomato. Two words seems better imho. I haven't often seen lifecycle as one word ... sounds more like a brand ...

The shift of stress seems typical of the kind of shifting that is constantly happening from British to American English. But the change in pronunciati...

Well, "Miss Nancy" goes back to the early 1820s, as does nancy as a term for the buttocks. But that's still a large gap to attribute "nance" to a part...

deaconB said katexic said If one doesn't mind being a tad off-color, "poor minge" comes immediately to mind. That probably says more about my min...

Heimhenge said Regarding the oft-cited "fact" that no English word rhymes with "orange" ... I still think proper nouns are ineligible. Unless "bloren...

I'm not so sure. I have to admit to never seeing distain used mistakenly for disdain. And I'm further unsure that most things that actually are distai...