center around or center on revolve around

Two perfectly good expressions—“center on” and “revolve around”—get conflated in this nonsensical neologism. When a speaker says his address will “center around the topic of” whatever, my interest level plummets.

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• swam vs swum
• flys vs flies
• soar vs sore
• greatful vs grateful
• heal vs heel
• ninty vs ninety
• ruff vs rough
• writting vs writing
• submittal vs submission
• seam vs seem

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• WWE Payback 2013 Belonged to AJ Lee and Kaitlyn
  Much of the talk about WWE Payback 2013 is sure to center around the night's intense Divas Championship match between AJ Lee and Kaitlyn. The inaugural edition of WWE's newest pay-per-view event featured another great battle between Chris Jericho and CM Punk, a slickly done double turn and a vicious Three Stages of Hell match for the WWE title, but it was the women who told the best story on ...
  June 17, 2013 - Bleacher Report