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Just a quibble but I see this a lot - if you're talking about strategy it's "bottom-up", not "bottoms-up".

A bottom-up strategy is something like marketing your tool to users who then bring it into their company for wider adoption.

A bottoms-up strategy is drinking until the problem goes away.

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you shouldn't discount the power of the second one

As a recovering alcoholic, I can attest that drinking does not resolve life's problems.

I, for one, am glad you are recovering.

Hah! I've def made this mistake

I have the same feeling about this, and I've noticed that folks from the UK are more likely to use "bottoms-up" to mean both. I rarely hear it from US-born speakers. Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

I'm British,

Never heard "bottoms-up" to mean the same as "bottom up"

Bottoms up is when you finish your drink.

Bottom up is sitting on a high surface (put your bottom up, usually said to a child), or lifting something from the inverse of where it's normally handled from or, like the parent said: a set of business strategies.

Not a Brit myself, but I've noticed they tend to put an s on the end of a lot of things. e.g. "maths"

"Maths" makes sense though, as short for "mathematics". However, "bottom-up" refers to "from the bottom up", I think, which is singular.

Surprised to get downvoted for asking a question to see if others have found the same thing. I'm not passing judgment — I have a background in linguistics and see grammar/usage as descriptive, not prescriptive. I just wondered if usage was different in the UK. Sorry if this was misconstrued as passing judgment, or something else that apparently warrants downvotes.

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