Misused words and phrases

Disinterested means unbiased and does not mean uninterested.

Begging the question means "to elicit a specific question as a reaction or response," and can often be replaced with "a question that begs to be answered." However, a lesser used and more formal definition is "to ignore a question under the assumption it has already been answered." The phrase itself comes from a translation of an Aristotelian phrase rendered as "beg the question" but meaning "assume the conclusion."

Tortuous means twisting and does not mean torturous.

Verbal means in linguistic form and does not mean oral, spoken.

You presume correctly .....

"Off one's own back" for "off one's own bat". I doubt that this will be familiar to American readers as the original expression apparently derives from cricket, where the only runs credited to a batsman are those scored ‘off his own bat’. The idiom means to do something on one’s own initiative or through one’s own efforts.

I only recently found out that supersede (arguably meaning to take precedence) is spelt with an S and isnt even in the same family of words of cede, concede, recede, precede, precedence

good score @ scrabble " to boot"

I frequently hear 'in unchartered waters ' in place of 'in uncharted waters'...

Top Tip : Do not go sailing with those people.

does anyone know anything about the army press corpse ?  ... the newsreader  seems to