Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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user107126

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August 17, 2018

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“hone in” vs. “home in”

  • August 17, 2018, 4:37pm

I might point out that spellcheckers will be of no help here. If "hone in" started as a typo, as evath suggests, that would make sense. @campobello's evolutionary comment is pertinent--unless you are a pilot like AnWulf, or military or a ham radio operator, "homing" is probably a foreign concept.
But the ignorance of the young (and sportscasters) should be fought by the knowledgeable and educated, not abdicated to as an evolutionary inevitability.