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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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CactusAnnie · 01/11/2015 17:47

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purpleponcho · 01/11/2015 17:47

DEFINITELY THINK.

' THing' doesn't make any sense and loses all the jocular beauty of the original.

TheCreepyContessaOfPlumperton · 01/11/2015 17:47

I say think, dh says thing. I'm horrified.

Namechangenell · 01/11/2015 17:45

Think. Obviously. As above, I'm embarrassed for those who are wrong!

lostInTheWash · 01/11/2015 17:45

Why are all these Men wrong??

Perhaps it's the violence thing ? All these men offering or expecting knuckle sandwiches as their thing.

Or perhaps they don't listen any more to their wives speak, some kind of training in mishearing what their wife's are saying - .

SweetestThing · 01/11/2015 17:44

It's think. If you think that, you've got another think coming. There's the logic in it.

Furiosa · 01/11/2015 17:40

I think they're getting confused by On purpose and By accident.

Or maybe aliens walk among us?

rosy71 · 01/11/2015 17:40

People saying it's "thing" just haven't heard the saying properly & assuming it's "thing" without thinking of the sense of the phrase.

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NotMyRealName2015 · 01/11/2015 17:38

Interesting that a few people have now said they say 'think', but their DH says 'thing'

Why are all these Men wrong??

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MaidOfStars · 01/11/2015 17:38

I think pacific/specific would be a dealbreaker for me. I couldn't respect anyone who did it (in the absence of any speech disorders etc).

Do those who use 'pacific' also 'pacify' a name/address/etc? And do they 'specify' their crying child with a 'specifier'.

gleam · 01/11/2015 17:38

Think. Deffo.

Furiosa · 01/11/2015 17:37

Also, if you buy something, you've bought it.

You haven't brought it!

GoringBit · 01/11/2015 17:37

Think... "If you think that xxx, you've got another think coming."

Another thing coming makes no sense to me.

While we're at it, do people do things off their own bat or off their own back?

annandale · 01/11/2015 17:36

'on accident'? Can't quite think what they are aiming for there?

clam · 01/11/2015 17:35

Not just saying it, waitrose, but persisting with the idea even when told it's categorically wrong.

Furiosa · 01/11/2015 17:34

It's THINK. Scottish 30 something.

But if you think this is bad I've been hearing teenagers say On accident a lot lately. Also Addicting instead of Addictive Angry

WaitroseEssentialPancetta · 01/11/2015 17:34

Wish I hadn't opened this thread because I'm so embarrassed for all the people saying 'thing' that my skin hurts Sad

TempusEedjit · 01/11/2015 17:33

greenpotato appears to be the "think"ers escape goat on this thread Wink

rosy71 · 01/11/2015 17:31

It's "think" obviously. It means what you're thinking is wrong so you need to think again. Why on earth would it be "thing"????

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 01/11/2015 17:30

Omfg

I've just asked Dh and he said 'thing'. Thing! Idiot.

If he survives, divorce is the only way to go.

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NotMyRealName2015 · 01/11/2015 17:29

Well, it seems we have kicked of quite a debate! should have just done the bloody gardening

To all the 'thing' defenders: I'm sorry but I just can't get my head around our explanations. It's giving me brainache! Fairplay for tryng though, when I asked DH to justify 'thing' he just said "how should i know, that's just what it is" Hmm

It is annoying when people get these things wrong. I've got a friend who insists on saying 'pacfic' instead of 'specifc'. Years ago i had a colleague who pronounced 'precdent' like 'president'. Maddening.

On the plus side, my garden is looking much better...
Wink

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DinosaursRoar · 01/11/2015 17:26

Think.

(grew up in Cheshire, currently in Kent, have lived in Sheffield, it's always been think)

As in "if you think X, then you have another think coming" - ie. 'if you think X then you need to think again' - "another think coming" means "you are about to think again".

MaidOfStars · 01/11/2015 17:26

GreenPotato Thing does make logical sense

No it doesn't, not when you consider that it's preceded by 'another'. You can't have 'another' of something you haven't already had at least one of.

It's really illogical, when you consider that pesky 'another'.

MrsDeVere · 01/11/2015 17:25

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desperatehousewife2 · 01/11/2015 17:25

Haven't read the whole thread but it's definitely think!!!

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