• ^ sigh.

    It's all Fox' fault:

    While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists are content to allow the misconception to fall into the vernacular

    :)

    it's astounding how often it pops up in newspapers, news broadcasts and most depressingly - interviews with high-ranking politicians and public servants.

    I sort of knew it. But still misused it.

    I'm guessing that it's because it is confused with "it beggars belief".

    It really beggars the question that it begs such belief.

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