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nowrongwrong 3 points ago +3 / -0

round
/round/
verb

  • pass and go around (something) so as to move on in a changed direction
    "the ship rounded the cape and sailed north"

a·round
/əˈround/
preposition

  • so as to pass (a place or object) in a curved or approximately circular route
    "he walked around the airfield"

He's comparing two idioms with completely different grammatical structure because they sound similar.