For All Intents & Purposes

For all intents and purposes I just need to put it out there that for years I thought this phrase was, "for all intensive purposes". 

It was a Friday sometime last summer.  A friend of my husband and I came to visit from PA.  Brilliant man, he's the head of the calculus department at a prestigious private high school in Manhattan.  He told us the very same story I stated above.  A look of confusion came over my face as I said, "So it's not for all intensive purposes?". It was not.  I, like him, thought if it's a serious enough point you're trying to make then it is in fact intense.  Although that wasn't the case.

Last night I repeated that very story to my friend Maria.  On that note I told her that my friend Brian was devastated when he learned well into his 30's that a pony doesn't grow up to become a horse but in fact an adult pony.  I look up to see poor Maria with that familiar confused look. She just found out.  "So what are baby horses called?".  I didn't know. 

Lastly I recall finding out that a wheel barrow is not a wheel barrel. Hey, in my defense I never saw the thing written out so as far as I was concerned it sounded like a wheel barrel therefore it was.  So I wonder what else it is I am saying incorrectly.   But for all intents and purposes I get by.

In case you were wondering.  It's a foal.