"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
"Near miss" despite the grammatical error, implies a hit: it nearly
missed. i.e. it hit.

"Nearly hit" is what people mean when they say "near miss."

Professors and editors have been going round and round about this forever.
It's one of those things where, at the end of the day, you just shrug it off
and say "The people have decided that 'near miss' means 'near hit' much as
the word 'awesome' now means 'cool' and 'hot.'")

-c