It's 'make do' , not 'make due'?

[oldlaundbooth]

AIBU?

Colleague senior academic associate wrote' We'll make due' in an email

It's 'make do', right?

[StealthPolarBear]

Presumably everyone who believes it's 'thing' would say something like "you want to go to town tomorrow? You have another thing coming".

[LifeIsGoodish]

Jofo I imagine it's because 'wear' (you wear clothes) has the same vowel sound as 'wary'.

[CauliflowerBalti]

It it is another think coming. As in:

"If you think you're going out dressed like that, you've got another think coming."

"You think she loves you? You've got another think coming..."

You thingers are just trolling, right?

[thetemptationofchocolate]

Current gripe is the loss of 'to' or 'to the' from sentences. For instance, I have heard. 'I'm going town' lately, and 'I went doctor's'.

I also loathe 'Imma'. I've heard this many times and have now seen it written. It took me ages to work out what it was when I first saw it written down :)

[Jofo]

Whilst I'm thinking about things, I struggle with spoiled and spoilt as in 'Happy birthday, hope you get spoilt/spoiled today'. Which is correct?

[Jofo]

Wonder and wander.

[Shesaysso]

An ex colleague always used to write in her emails 'add hock' *ad hoc

[Jofo]

LifeisGoodish, yes we have and it is one of my pet hates. Really can't understand why people get the two words confused.

[LifeIsGoodish]

Have we had weary/wary?

[AddictedToCoYo]

Sorry thenlater but I've tried all that and I still don't understand any of it.

All my Ls sound the same to me and no lip touching goes on at all. Maybe it depends what accent you are speaking in.

[derxa]

alveolar l vs uvular l

[StealthPolarBear]

Your top lip? But your tongue must come right out of your mouth

[ThenLaterWhenItGotDark]

Oh god, now I'm confusing myself, sometimes I do touch my lip and sometimes I don't!

rachelsenglish.com/english-pronounce-l-consonant/

That's quite a clear explanation of the difference between light and dark though. (I think where she mentions the L sound being made in the same place as the TH sound is how I do it when I touch my lip)

[AugustaFinkNottle]

Likewise, my tongue stays behind my top teeth when making an l sound. The only difference between "light" and "film" is the amount of pressure my tongue makes on my palate behind my top teeth, and I use a bit more of my tongue when saying "film".

[StealthPolarBear]

My tongue never touches my top lip when I make an l sound. It is behind my top teeth .

[Caffeinator]

Squeegle DP is the same.

[80sMum]

Just to reiterate what others have said, it is THINK.

It has never been "thing". Thing is simply a result of people having misheard the phrase and not seen it written down, then others have simply copied what they heard.

It's understandable that such errors can occur. What astounds me is that people persist in protesting that "thing" is correct, even after it has been clearly and thoroughly explained to them that it is wrong!

[ThenLaterWhenItGotDark]

To clarify, iirc, but it's been a million years since I studied it, there is no dark L in some accents so where we would have dark L, they have a light L + a vowel sound (ie in some Irish accents with "fillum")

[ThenLaterWhenItGotDark]

"fillum" is just an example of dark L and is prevalent in, for example, Irish accents.

There are two main ways everyone pronounces L, "light" and "dark"

"light" would be how L is pronounced in "light" (tongue touches top lip)
"dark" would be how L is pronounced in "film" (tongue behind front teeth, possibly on palate)

In some regional accents there is an automatic vowel-sound insertion after the dark L if there is a further consonant after it.

Try saying "lip" and then "hall" for a dark L not followed by another sound.

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I say fool and full exactly like the woman in the video.

[derxa]

full vs fool in RP
I say them the same way

[Squeegle]

My dad says sangwidges instead of sandwiches. It drives me INSANE!

[derxa]

Or fillum instead of film! That's better than 'fulm' as they say round here.

[HolgerDanske]

That's another one that drives me mad. It's DISCREET!! Or discrete, as the case may be.

[AugustaFinkNottle]

I'm not sure whether I find "due" or "doo" more irritating. WTF is the problem with just writing "do"?

There's also an awful lot of "discrete" instead of "discreet" around - particularly on breastfeeding threads.