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this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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If you want to know, it’s “en masse” not “on mass”. I would want to know, and then dive deeper onto where it came from and why we still say it regularly.
If you didn’t want to know and I just seem like some jerk correcting you, pop me a downvote and I’ll delete the comment.
I love a good correction and I support any chance to encourage people to delve into etymologies!
Of course I also love language change and all language that people use is correct language, so I'm on mass for life.
Thank you!