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Anyone notice this yesterday in a thread?

I kept waiting for a pedant to jump in, but you didn't.

What are some other comedy mishearings?

Exact quote was, "They feed the children at 3pm with a hot meal and for all intensive purposes, it's dinner."

I quite like these sorts of mishearings. I've seen a few of them recently and they always make me smile.

Loose/lose on the other hand....

My DH says 'fraudulent slip' which I quite like.

My DH says "don't label the point" which is just irritating.

Battering eyelids, and click vs clique.

Battering eyelids! Brilliant

Love it!

those kind of mistakes (chest of draw) make me wonder if people never read, because anybody who has read enough would have come across these phrases written, but then again i read all the time and still can't spell reliably

Aaaaaargh!

(to all of these things!)

Thank goodness for threads like this one so that my head need not explode!

Not quite the same thing but... I got frustrated listening to an American on the radio taking about his niche, pronounced "nich" to rhyme with "rich".
I've always though it was pronounced "neesh".

cutting your nose despite your face....

No, not the same thing. I think it's perfectly fine for different nationalities to have different pronunciations of things, and different spellings. The languages evolve in different ways.

nice one, juneybean!

Arrrrgh I hate it when people pronounce it like that but to WRITE it.....

<scrubs eyes with bleach>

Sometimes they can be quite cute though - I had a student say he 'rules the roof' today.

Sliver/slither just makes me chortle.

Ooooh, just a little slither of cheese/cake whatever. I always want to scream, SNAKES SLITHER YOU IDIOT.

I am sick of reading otherwise cogent posts that say something like 'well, I keep his homework in a special draw'. <thud>

I really want to post and say 'don't you mean DRAW-ER, there's an -er on the end for goodness sake'

Agree that I can only assume that these people don't read very much or perhaps they think that it's the rest of us that have made the mistake.

But hey, my grammar isn't perfect, but draw for drawer just sets my teeth on edge.

Oh I really need one of those emoticons that you get on MSN of someone laughing so hard they are on the floor

I soooooo enjoyed those, but only because they made me feel less of a sad bint for caring so much about spelling and grammar and speaking proper ...

When my DH was once commenting on my behaviour shall we say, he called me a GORGONZOLA. It went something like 'deux, you are behaving like a gorgonzola'. He meant gorgon.

I very nearly PMSL what with the weak pelvic floor.

This thread has made me shudder and laugh in equal proportion ... cringeing and snurking all at once.

Putting things away in "draws" has to be the worst one, surely? Urgh, it makes me want to poke my own eyes out.

A toddler in 'toe' - that's one of mine!

I read estate agents details of a "pedal stool wash basin" the other day.

I've seen, more than once, "rest bite care"!!!

no!!!! seriously??? OMG!

A work colleague took a day off because it was her dd's insect day at school

what???!!!!!

<pictures beetle drive in school hall, all teachers rolling for the legs...>