play emily brewster and one and the same text graphic

'One in the same' or 'One and the same'?

Is it all the same anyway?


Is it 'one in the same' or 'one and the same'? Senior Editor Emily Brewster explains.

Transcript

Sometimes a word that sounds like the right word and feels like the right word isn't actually the right word, it's an eggcorn. The acrobat and the farmer who are the same person aren't "one in the same," they're "one and the same." You don't have to choose between being an acrobat and a farmer. You can be one and the same.

Up next

play emily brewster and one and the same text graphic
'One in the same' or 'One and the same'?

 

Is it all the same anyway?

play image1815466723
How Do You Pronounce 'Vase'?

 

And is one way more correct than the others?

play backward index mystery
The True Story of the Backward Index

 

These people needed a computer

play mrs malaprop
What is a malaprop?

 

We'll tell you all the perpendiculars

play contractions
On Contractions of Multiple Words

 

You all would not have guessed some of these

play ismo merriam webster trunk boot
Some Odd Words with ISMO: "Junk in the Trunk"

 

Comedian ISMO on what separates a boot from a trunk

play serial comma
The Serial Comma Explained

 

Why don't they call it the Merriam-Webster comma?