It's 'make do' , not 'make due'?

[oldlaundbooth]

AIBU?

Colleague senior academic associate wrote' We'll make due' in an email

It's 'make do', right?

[OurBlanche]

Yep.

And... I am wary of upsetting her... though I can see you may also be weary from doing so... and many more, I am sure

[oldlaundbooth]

Thanks, Blanche.

I knew I was right!

[Just5minswithDacre]

Yep.

[Gide]

Ex-colleague did similar-without further adue instead of further ado. Drove us all nuts, we'd be chorusing the correct version at her eventually. Bit poor when she was addressing a staff of maybe 100 about the need for improved literacy.

[Balletgirlmum]

Yes, unless they mean make due recompense.

[Rainatnight]

Yes, and I think it would be fair does if you were cross (this drives me mental)

[DameXanaduBramble]

Yes. Just like it's 'another thing coming' not 'think' as some bonkers MNers will have you believe. Tut.

[thecatfromjapan]

Could it be auto-correct?

Even if it's not, it will make you a lot happier to pretend it is.

My auto-correct changes every 'its' to an 'it's'. It drives me utterly crazy and I don't always manage to catch the over-exuberant apostrophes before I press 'Post' on here.

Seriously, just tell yourself it's auto-correct and you'll find yourself able to read the emails without flinching. It'll make your life so much easier.

[DameXanaduBramble]

It's fair dos.

[BigSandyBalls2015]

Yep

I'm a bit obsessed with 'en route' at the moment. Even the school website has 'on route'!

[DameXanaduBramble]

Oh Lordy. This drives me crazy.

[runningincircles12]

Cringe. Yes, you're right. It's make DO.
I actually saw a senior lecturer make the your/you're error. It was on facebook so I really hope it was an autocorrect thing.

[BestIsWest]

It IS 'another think coming.

[DuvetDayEveryday]

I've seen 'persay' more than once recently. And someone on FB used 'walla!' to mean, I can only asumme, 'voila!'

[DuvetDayEveryday]

'Assume' obviously. Pedants' curse at work.

[Wolfiefan]

Make do and mend.

[DameXanaduBramble]

Bestiswest....it really isn't. It doesn't even make sense. So many people on here swear blind it is but it 100% isn't and never has been.

[DuvetDayEveryday]

It really is another think. You are wrong.

[DameXanaduBramble]

You are wrong. What planet are you on?!

[BestIsWest]

It really is 'think'.

As in, 'if you think this is right, then you are wrong, you have another think coming'.

Thing does not make sense.

[EEVEElution]

It is think, not thing.

[DameXanaduBramble]

No no no. That's not even the whole phrase, people don't say that. 'Think' makes no sense whatsoever. Another think coming? What a load of old rubbish. You're all completely brainwashed!

[DuvetDayEveryday]

I'm on the planet of correctness.

Google will help you.

[Sceptimum]

I wish people would rein in these sort of mistakes. (Every time I see "reign in" used to mean bring to stop I want to scream.)