Benjamin Dreyer: Of course, here's my dear colleague June Casagrande to set the record straight, dammit.

Of course, here's my dear colleague June Casagrande to set the record straight, dammit.

Interesting! I would read the hell out of a deep dive on the phrase.

Worst Comes to Worst? Or Worse Comes to Worst?www.grammarunderground.com I try not to cringe when people use language in a way that seems wrong to me. My idea of what’s right, as I’ve

Now I'm just pissed off.

“In the centuries since, this phrase has shown a stubborn unwillingness to settle into fixed form.” 😆

WELCOME TO ENGLISH

Am feeling tremendously smug now. Always have been a double-worster.

*mutters* *mumbles* *mutters*

Me too 💁🏻‍♀️

So glad to learn this.😅🤓

My brain is being complete must and refusing to pull up how I thought this phrase went, I don’t think I’ve ever written it, so it’s just mumbled ends? But worst/worst doesn’t feel wrong in my mouth.

At least now we know.

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