• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you want to know, it’s “en masse” not “on mass”. I would want to know, and then dive deeper onto where it came from and why we still say it regularly.

    If you didn’t want to know and I just seem like some jerk correcting you, pop me a downvote and I’ll delete the comment.

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      1 year ago

      I love a good correction and I support any chance to encourage people to delve into etymologies!

      Of course I also love language change and all language that people use is correct language, so I’m on mass for life.

      Thank you!