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RE: Witchcraft Wednesdays: Witchcraft vs Wicca
I'll add another guess as to why people mistake the two. I suspect that, just on first glance, the fact that both words start W-I and have a C in them makes people assume that the words are related.
I also want to mention, and I hope you don't mind, that the phrase is actually "One and the same", not "One in the same".
That could also be the case, the words are very similar to one another and that can cause confusion between the two.
I don't mind, but where I grew up we always said "one in the same" so I suppose it's probably more of a slang/dialect thing :)
Oh? Where did you grow up? Is it possible people were saying "one 'n the same?"
I'm such a troublemaker, sorry, telling people that what they know to be true isn't. :P
Michigan, about an hour from the Canadian border. People tell me I sound Canadian all the time, especially because I picked up slang like calling a Tim Horton's a Timmy's instead.
It is possible that people were saying that instead, yes, but I've always written it "one in the same" without problem. You're not a troublemaker, I actually find it interesting because language in general fascinates me ^^
Oh good! Yeah. I'm from Wisconsin, and the way I say it, it definitely sounds like won'nthuhsaim, which could be anything really.