Edited sentence: A single misspelling or misuse can creep into the attorney's argot, century by century, if not year by year, and for want of a classical education in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, which gives the better attorneys a fitter grounding in the law, fails to find itself ever corrected.As is often the case with lawyers in the United States, they bandy about Latin phrases without any real understanding as to what the Latin words mean, and without any regard as to the phrase's ultimate legitimacy, and regardless of whether the meaning that is arrived at, can be applied to the concept at hand