Has DH got another think coming or have I got another thing coming???

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THINK!

Quite recently I heard a teacher (the mum of one of DD's friends) refer to a "damp squid".

Guessing she's an IT Crowd fan

Ahem, I've had a think and I realise now I might have been a bit fuckwitted wrong when I said 'think' couldn't be used as a noun.

But I stand by my claim that 'thing' is far more logical than 'think'. Even if it is wrong.

Quite recently I heard a teacher (the mum of one of DD's friends) refer to a "damp squid". I was slightly shocked! I suppose it shows how often we use these phrases without thinking of what they mean. Of course a squid would be damp, it's a bloody squid.

As a recovering thing-er, I'd like to put in a plea that you show patience to those who are infected with saying thing.

It's only in the past couple of years that I discovered it was "think" and I'd been saying it wrong for forty years. I couldn't believe it at first but with the right treatment (reading websites) I found a cure.

And there's no need to rage at those who say thing. Obviously, think has logic behind it, but language is not always logical.

Worse still, he said, "oh I know, some people say thing and others say think - those people are abhorrent"

And then: "I think it might have originally been 'think' but has evolved over time to 'thing', so that is now correct."

So he knew the correct word but still prefers to use the wrong one.

He also said that 'think' makes no sense when as pp have repeatedly said, a) think can be used as a noun as well as a verb and b) it is meant to be a funny, quirky sounding phrase with the repeated use of the word 'think' - almost a play on words but more like playing with words.

entence," If you think you're going out dressed like that you've got another think coming" makes perfect sense. If you change the second think to thing, it makes no sense at all!

It makes perfect sense and I'm a bit confused by the number of posters saying it doesn't.

Put it like this: 'if you think thing1 is going to happen, you've got another thing coming.'

It doesn't really matter how it's phrased; whatever you think is going to happen, that's a thing, and some other thing can happen instead.

I mean I know it's wrong and it's meant to be 'think' but 'thing' does make -more- sense.

I'no pretty sure it's 'think' but that's because I say 'thing', which frankly I think makes MUCH more sense. Baffled by the posters who say 'think' makes more sense.

No, it fucking doesn't. Since when is 'think' a fucking noun, for one thing? Surely it would be 'another thought coming'?

Oh. My. God.

DH thinks it's thing.

I'll miss him.

Think. Although I always thought it should be "you'll have another thought coming". Having said that it is possible to say I'll have a think about that.
Who did the gardening by the way?

It's definitely 'think'.

Where I live in the North East people routinely say 'register' as 'red chester'. Also 'mortified' for angry, as in 'When DD stayed out late the other night I was mortified'. Also 'paletic' for drunk and 'brufen' for ibuprofen. I know some of these are dialectic but 'mortified' always puzzled me.

Oh god no, don't get me started on 'towing' the line.

Thing.

I'm completely northern and i say "think". That's what my gran and parents used to say to me. No idea what other people were saying because I probably heard it as "think".

As an aside, like "trickle treating". I know it's wrong but for me it has pleasing connotations of treacle (trickle) toffee and therefore misty autumn evenings and bonfires! Similarly, my mum and I used to call choux buns "chocs buns" in fun, because they usually have chocolate icing on top. People may have heard us in supermarkets and thought we were very ignorant!

thing makes no sense at all It makes sense to me. So much so, I'd genuinely never questioned it, or even thought about it before now. I

It's weird isn't it? What one person finds unbelievably obviously wrong, another person doesn't. I aso can't believe it's gone on for 16 pages! We've had a few conversations about language tonight in chez Starky.

Trickle treating... Wins, hands down.

Escape goat, ha!

Nearly as funny as Chester drawers.

My northern mum used to use this phrase a lot

"if you think you're doing that/going there/having that/ you've got another think coming".

Of course it is think, thing makes no sense at all. This is on a par with people claiming "should of" is correct because they thought that is what they heard

It is definitely and absolutely 'think'!! Surely no one can continue to debate that when a) all the links agree and b) it's just logical!!!!! It's like, if you think that then you better think again.

People are weird

It was always "think" where I grew up in the N.E. & it still is for me & DH, but I've notice friends local to here (south) say thing

They are wrong of course

Thing makes no sense at all - it basically means " you can think again, so you would have another "think" coming - I even remember the teacher explaining that one in an English lesson :)

Bertie surely both are correct in context. Chocks away to get going (chocks are the blocks of wood they put under the wheels of planes, right?) and bombs away when achieving the objective of your mission (or possibly letting one rip).

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Thing does not make any sense