Itās a holdover from a mispronunciation of French words by English speakers.
Modern day " lieu " in French, used to be " leuf ".
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I will walk through a dark hallway just to get to the other light switch so I can set it ārightā
Iām convinced this is why we have lights on our phones.
Yup, I know the history, in fact I was going to copy/paste a link to the history of it.
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At the risk of offending you, we are soulmates in this regard. You are me and I am you.
There is no greater offense of language in my lifetime than the dictionary people deciding that figuratively now = literally, simply because of ignorant usage. Oh, ok, so because so many of our morons canāt get it right, letās redefine right? Literally means LITERALLY. Figurately cannot equal literally.
This is a hill I am willing to die on.
And for the punctuation nerds, look up the correspondence that the National Apostrophe Preservation Society (NAPS) send to Albertsonās [grocery store chain] when they changed their name to Albertsons.
Just between you and Iā¦
Oh no, daddy split our topic off into the quarantine area for bad children!
THAT was randomā¦
Do we correct the title? Itās about grammar and other 
Get it right @josecgomez!
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Fixed !
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@c.buchanan How about how engineers canāt spell gauge and so the dictionaries gave in and started allowing gage as an acceptable spelling?
It was a selfish action cause I was tired of getting notified about it when I donāt care. It was an action to Savings ā me some time 
And now that I replied hereā¦ Iām back in the loop 
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Makes one want to gauge your eyes out, donāt it?
Doesnāt stop them from still entering āgUAge.ā Which I like to pronounce as āgwazh.ā
My therapist helped me with light switches. Now I have just one duplex in my house that HAS to be correct. The others I have let go.
I prefer passive aggressive thread splitting thank you very much 
Same ā¦ top an bottom of stairs unfortunately.