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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In my experience, these mistakes are made primarily by native speakers. Because they learned it by hearing and can't tell the difference. Those who learned English as a second language learn through books and are explicitly taught the difference.