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..."to all intensive purposes..."

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BelfastBloke · 17/09/2010 06:15

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?

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BelfastBloke · 17/09/2010 16:36

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

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pushmepullyou · 17/09/2010 16:41

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....

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PrinceRogersNelson · 17/09/2010 16:53

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

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hackingandhewing · 17/09/2010 16:54

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

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Barbeasty · 17/09/2010 17:02

Battering eyelids, and click vs clique.

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BelfastBloke · 17/09/2010 18:50

Battering eyelids! Brilliant

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loopyloops · 17/09/2010 18:51

Love it!

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fluffles · 17/09/2010 18:52

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 Blush

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Easywriter · 17/09/2010 18:53

Aaaaaargh!

(to all of these things!)

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

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TeamEdward · 17/09/2010 18:53

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juneybean · 17/09/2010 18:55

cutting your nose despite your face....

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BelfastBloke · 17/09/2010 18:56

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.

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BelfastBloke · 17/09/2010 18:57

nice one, juneybean!

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frakkinnakkered · 17/09/2010 19:03

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



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

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Deux · 17/09/2010 19:03

Sliver/slither just makes me chortle.

Ooooh, just a little slither of cheese/cake whatever. Grin 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'.

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.

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MidnightsChild · 17/09/2010 19:08

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

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 ...

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Deux · 17/09/2010 19:16

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'. GrinHe meant gorgon.

I very nearly PMSL what with the weak pelvic floor.

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ThatDamnDog · 17/09/2010 19:16

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.

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thedollyridesout · 17/09/2010 19:27

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

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treacletart · 17/09/2010 19:30

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

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MsHighwater · 17/09/2010 19:34

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

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fluffles · 17/09/2010 19:35

no!!!! seriously??? OMG!

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detoxdiva · 17/09/2010 19:49

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

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loopyloops · 17/09/2010 21:16

what???!!!!!

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MidnightsChild · 17/09/2010 21:30

No, stop it, whilst my pelvic floor has recovered (DD is a grown-up after all), the last two are enough to make anyone burst their banks laughing Grin

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