# Augusta Wind **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576 "2004-04-23T04:27:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the.hyacinth.girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@the.hyacinth.girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the.hyacinth.girl)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576/1 "2004-04-23T04:27:07Z")
My (non-native English speaking) boyfriend recently had an epiphany (which I find hilarious). He was reading something that said “a gust of wind” and got really excited about it. He’s been hearing people use the phrase for years; however, he had never actually seen it in print. Apparently, he had always assumed that it was some bizarre, mildly poetic English phrase…“Augusta wind” as in Augusta, Georgia, or something along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576/2 "2004-04-23T06:32:28Z")
That’s kinda cute… don’t tease him too badly. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576/3 "2004-04-25T02:36:57Z")
This Canadian girl at work years ago had a malapropism like this that used to drive me insane. You know when someone gets a common saying wrong, but they like it and use it incorrectly all the time? Arrgh! She liked the phrase “for all intents and purposes” but she would always say it as “for all intensive purposes”, which makes no sense at all! As she was my boss I didn’t see fit to correct her, I just ground my teeth into dust instead. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576/4 "2004-04-25T02:38:49Z")
I knew a transcriber some years back who tried desperately to make sense out of the word “entrepreneurial,” which she’d clearly never heard of – and came up with what still makes perfect sense to me: “intrepid oriole.” Kind of the reverse, but it works. And rather well, at that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576/5 "2004-04-25T03:33:21Z")
I worked with a woman who came from Yugoslavia. Her english was excellent, just excellent. No communication worries. But when she was frazzled she would mix her metaphors. Our favorite, one that we razzed her for years on, was mixing “Going to hell in a handbasket” and " I’m a nervous wreck." She said, " I’m a nervous basket." ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576/6 "2004-04-25T03:37:15Z")
> [@AndrewT](#): > > She liked the phrase “for all intents and purposes” but she would always say it as “for all intensive purposes”, which makes no sense at all! Oh GOD, I hate that one. But I’ve heard/seen Americans who grew up speaking English do it, so I don’t think you can blame it on her northern origins. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2004, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/augusta-wind/241576/7 "2004-04-25T03:53:46Z")
Actually I can as I’m Australian - you’re ALL northerners to me 🙂