Thursday, May 14, 2015

sowcow/salchow: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Thursday, May 14, 2015

sowcow/salchow
There’s a fancy turning jump in ice skating named after Swedish figure skater Ulrich Salchow, but every Winter Olympics millions of people think they hear the commentators saying “sowcow” and that’s how they proceed to misspell it.

 
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