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Thanks. I had seen the Wikipedia entry (but not the stackexchange and the Seth Roberts post) as well but did not post it because I found it interesting to see everyone come up with rationalizations for why their usage of the phrase is 'the correct one'. :)

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We use it 'wrongly', and will continue to (unless you want to not be understood), but hey - it's interesting that somehow it got mixed up! I wonder who got it backwards first?

Similarly, Joel has an article on Hungarian Notation that says common usage is wrong. Would those who defend the (current, wrong) usage of "steep learning curve" not find it interesting that the proper H Notation was a lot more useful than current usage?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

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