The dinner table discussions must have been interesting where siblings Ross and Kathryn Petras grew up. They provide nine words and phrases we are probably using wrong, according to their book, That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means <link>. We think some of you will laugh out loud reading the examples.
. . . it’s not a mute point at all, because a point isn’t speechless. It should be moot, not mute.
Source: HBR Ascend, November 11, 2019. Link.