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

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NotMyRealName2015 · 01/11/2015 14:56

I’ll clarify Blush

DH and I were having a light hearted debate about who was going to sort the garden out this afternoon (there are weeds growing out of weeds, and we have guests coming this week)
DH said that if I thought he was doing it today ‘I had another thing coming’.

I pointed out the phrase was ‘another think coming’ and that he should now go and do the garden as punishment for his failure. Grin
However, he is insisting I am wrong and that ‘thing’ is the right word. I say that doesn’t even make sense! What ‘thing’ is coming?? He just says ‘English doesn’t always make sense.’ (Not technically his first language but he has a British parent so has always been bilingual and is completely fluent)

MN jury needed. Who is correct??
Loser will obviously be doing the garden. Winner will sit down with coffee and biscuits, looking smug and saying 'you've missed a bit.'

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hackmum · 01/11/2015 18:40

"I still can't get over how all the comments in the beginning were wholly convinced that 'thing' is correct"

Me too! Utterly bewildering. I've only read the first page, so I guess I can assume that someone has already linked to the article by the Guardian's style editor that tackled this very issue?

DownstairsMixUp · 01/11/2015 18:31

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NoArmaniNoPunani · 01/11/2015 18:30

I wonder if all the thingers are the same people who say 'off his own back'. That one really bugs me.

HolgerDanske · 01/11/2015 18:28

I still can't get over how all the comments in the beginning were wholly convinced that 'thing' is correct. But then I guess if you'd spent your life saying that you would think it's correct, wouldn't you.

It's still making me twitchy, though.

OneHandFlapping · 01/11/2015 18:24

Well it's definitely a doggy dog world here on Mumsnet .

CatMilkMan · 01/11/2015 18:23

Think makes absolutely no fucking sense and because of bloody mumsnet I now know DP is completely unreasonably wrong and thinks it think.

Grapejuicerocks · 01/11/2015 18:18
Grin
annandale · 01/11/2015 18:16

Tell him if he thinks you're going to LTB he's got another think coming.

Boom tish

annandale · 01/11/2015 18:15

Tbh sell from my experience that's predictive text putting the space in automatically, they are just not bothering to backspace.

Grapejuicerocks · 01/11/2015 18:14

Bangs head on desk.

Dh has just said it's thing. I've told him many of us are thinking of leaving our DH's because of it and all he could say was "where are you going to live then?"
I need to start a new thread - I've just threatened to LTB and he's agreed. What do I do now?

DixieNormas · 01/11/2015 18:12

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IWasHereBeforeTheHack · 01/11/2015 18:12

I have never heard or read "thing" being used in place of "think" in this context before this thread. Clearly I have been living on Mars.

Jux · 01/11/2015 18:10

May I add refute/deny? Drives me bonkers. 9 times out of 10, the context is

".....I refute that!" No, you deny it. You could refute it if you were to show evidence; it means disprove.

SellFridges · 01/11/2015 18:08

Think.

Jeez.

I was pondering recently on the number of people on my FB who insert spaces before exclamation marks and question marks. Do they all think I am stupid for not doing so? This includes my mother!

MillieMoodle · 01/11/2015 18:04

Wow, Maid, you've been to some interesting parties! Grin

Mummatron3000 · 01/11/2015 18:04

Definitely think - as in, if you're wrong, you'll need to think again. Another thing coming doesn't even make sense!!

MaidOfStars · 01/11/2015 18:03

And my own bugbear: unsociable/antisocial.

Unsociable people don't go to parties, antisocial people go to parties and shit in the pot plant.

annandale · 01/11/2015 18:01

I'll admit to struggling when people use jealousy and envy wrongly but I do think that's a lost cause, and also 'well jell' is great Smile

tibbawyrots · 01/11/2015 18:01

Definitely THINK. If you think that then you've got another think coming.
As in you need to rethink

Hmm
MillieMoodle · 01/11/2015 17:59

CactusAnnie, I can't stand the infer/imply muddle people get into. It makes me want to slap them. As does incorrect use of 'mortified'.

MaidOfStars · 01/11/2015 17:59

YY to infer/imply!

MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels · 01/11/2015 17:53

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LyndaNotLinda · 01/11/2015 17:50

Interesting article GreenPotato although the last line: 'And please share your most toe-curling linguistic gaffes below.' suggests that the author isn't quite as keen on being proud of his errors as some of the people on this thread :o

Dulceetdecorum · 01/11/2015 17:48

My DH has just confessed he thought it was 'thing'. He's got another THINK coming. It's funny how the thingers still maintain they are correct, and how frustrating the rest of us are finding it...

welshHairs · 01/11/2015 17:48

Wtaf!? I always thought it was 'thing'. I feel so ashamed.

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