To intend doing or to intend on doing? Which is correct?
But no, it’s not a one-off. More than that: it seems to be really quite common, especially, of course, in that hotbed of solecism (😉) the US.
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“All of a sudden” or “all of the sudden”? And “out of the sudden”? Commonly confused words (29-30)
Fourth – and many British speakers will sigh, shake their heads, and tut-tut at this point – all of the sudden is chiefly U.S. and Canadian: in NOW it is seven times more frequent per million words in U.S. English than in British English.
Abide by or abide to?
The other day I came across a phrase which used abide to something in the sense of 'sticking to' and it made me wonder how…