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Why do people say "Here, here" instead of the correct "Hear, hear"?

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#32 17-05-2010 11:27AM

norrie rugger

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JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Same reason they don't know the difference between 'cue' and 'queue', or 'its' and 'it's', or 'their' and 'there' or any other hononyms.

They probably say that they 'done' that, they 'seen' that, as well.

What's more, they don't care, they don't want to learn, so there's no point telling them. We just know that they are badly educated and come across as unintelligent........but they don't care about that either, or would dispute it. So what?

Never equate education to intelligence

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#33 17-05-2010 11:32AM

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For the same reason people write your instead of you're, there instead of their or they're, check instead of cheque, etc.
They don't understand that they're two different words

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