Dear dear

[anothernamejeeves]

Just saw a Facebook post where someone had been discussing how their 'self of steam' has taken a battering over the past few months
How do you tell them?????
What are your fave misused sayings

Heinz site (hindsight).

Heinz site
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Heard someone say "signa-Tories" several times really loudly.

One of my friends posted a picture of her wedding day 4 years ago and said “we’re still here, defining the odds” 😀

a deftifying leap

**Ego testicle

Until quite recently I used to say "BAY-nal" (i.e. to rhyme with anal) for banal.

My ex husband asks me to 'reframe' myself when I'm not doing as he wants....

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Dp says jesus web
I instantly have visions of spiderman/jesus hybrid swinging church to church and praying upside down.

On 31st October there was a post on my village FB page asking for the best roads to go 'trickle treating' round.

Had to keep a straight face when overhearing an argument between a couple and one saying that they would get their up commence (comeuppance) 😂

Ah memories, my kids used to go”trickle treating”

I think it's not unusual to not be able to pronounce words that you have only seen written down, because you're never going to know until you hear someone actually say it. I know that there are loads of words that I have seen written down and also heard spoken and it took me a long time to realise they were the same word. Like a pp mentioned, epitome was one of those for me. Or Arkansas.

But things like Chester draws are nothing like that. They're just...well, I don't know actually, but I always think that people must just repeat things without ever thinking about what they are actually saying? I've always been hideously self conscious about saying the wrong thing (bad experience as a five year old when I thought that raw just meant cold, so announced to the teacher that we had raw chicken for dinner, and she couldn't contain her laughter) so I never say or use phrases until I'm absolutely certain that they're right. Whereas most people don't doubt themselves as much, which on the one hand is probably a really good thing, and on the other hand is going to leave 2020 written English as indecipherable to future generations as medieval English is to us.

I have this vision of students from the year 2520 poring over screenshots of Facebook marketplace and trying to answer questions on why a salon has a special deal on head messages at £20, and why someone is selling four kitchen chairs that are in used condition with a few Mark's on them...

I had a student say her husband was having a 'vast economy' because they had enough children now.

My DH says "old timers" instead of Alzheimer's. Now that is own father has been diagnosed he really needs to figure this one out.

My ds says allternity instead of eternity and it makes perfect sense when you think about it!

Also dd used to say tofood instead of tofu which again makes perfect sense

Dh says abeast instead of obese. Drives me potty - I correct him every time but it just doesn't stay.

I think a lot of these are things people here in passing so they use the right contact but get the pronunciation incorrect.

Accent must come into it too. I never see Chester draws on Facebook because where I live 'drawers' has a very distinct R sound before the S, so anyone writing it based on how they pronounce it would get it right. On the other hand, I have seen people sell a 'mirr' or 'moor' (mirror) because we don't pronounce that word with very distinct syllables round these parts.

I think it's because when people are trying to spell stuff now that they aren't familiar with they try it out on autocorrect rather than picking up a dictionary and subsequently finding that such a word doesn't exist.

Autocorrect is a pile of shit at the best of times even if you do know what word you are aiming for.

I'm another who is well read, and learnt most if my language from books and audiotapes as as child. Sadly most children's books and tapes didn't cover the word 'lingerie' and as an otherwise precocious 12 year old I embarrassed myself significantly in New Look in front of all my new friends from secondary school by pronouncing it lin-ger-.

Everyone makes mistakes sometimes

Lin-ger-ee

Bloody autocorrect

A work colleague told me that for her birthday her DH had booked a trip on the Venice-Simpleton Orient Express. 😂

In my neck of the woods, camomile is spelt chamomile. I asked a dc to make me a cup of tea with the one in the yellow bag (the name was written on the bag). He came over and said here is you sha-moi-lee tea Mum. Its has been referred to as shamoilee tea ever since. 😂

I might have missed it but I don't think anyone's mentioned 'redeculous' yet. No idea why it irritates me so much but it really does, it's the only one I itch to correct, even though I never would

My daughter (12) was talking about history and she called Tutankhamun too-tank-a-mun.

She had never actually heard it out loud.

My cousin, in the same status post on Facebook, was in equal parts angry about the cost of a birth certificate being "day like robbery" and concerned about her son misbehaving at school on purpose in order to get "exgluedead"

Someone on Facebook complained that a minor council issue was a "3rd world problem"