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I was worried until I read the first line:
"A 74-year-old man went to an emergency department in Florida with rapidly rotting limbs after jumping into the waters off Florida’s Gulf Coast."
I won't be stepping foot in Florida and I refuse to swim in the ocean as everything in it wants you dead.
Ah yes, surely it'll be contained to Florida, the state so very concerned with things like stopping the spread of disease or climate change.
Let them eat limbs
Bone apple tea!
Step foot is American for set foot.
Are you sure about that? I couldn't find it in any dictionary.
Look at this person, putting American vernacular up on a petty stool.
They often get English wrong.
We didn't invent it. We made it less stuffy though. Black Americans made it cool.
"Bone apple tea" is nonsense.
"Stepping foot" literally describes what is happening, just with a different wording.
It's like the difference between calling a "ladybug" a "ladybird" - it's basically just regional dialect.
People say that shit all the time, quit trying to feel smart online.
It's a boring malapropism, like when people say "chomping at the bit" (instead of "champing").
It's not like I said "irregardless" or used "orgasm" instead of "organism".