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A Little Vocabulary Help Needed by Nobody: 12:39am On Nov 21, 2014
Ok, it's not vocabs per se but there's this popular saying often used that has been continuously twisted to the confusion of an average anglophonist.

Please, is it:

You can't eat your cake and have it

or

You can't have your cake and eat

I used to go for the first one until I saw a thread on Nairaland, which quoted a Media Outlet, using the latter so I need to know which is correct.

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Re: A Little Vocabulary Help Needed by bigt2(m): 12:50am On Nov 21, 2014
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can't_have_your_cake_and_eat_it&sa=U&ei=CH5uVKvxOYnXoASnzYDwCA&ved=0CCUQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNGQBuNVjE8HcBBhCU-W4k5L_mqWmQ

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