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

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AIBU?

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

It's 'make do', right?

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greyponcho I'm really sorry to be picky but "aqueduct" isn't a French word it's Latin...

Thank you Jessie.

Note to self - don't always believe teachers

Grey - I thought spell and spelt could be used?

dontpokethebear I like that alot .

I often see confusion regarding the words defuse and diffuse. Also phase and faze.

For some reason I find it irritating when British people say ass/asshole instead of arse/arsehole. It sounds odd and affected to me. If an American says asshole, it sounds fine. If a British person uses the word ass to mean donkey, that also sounds fine. I accept that this is entirely my issue.

Dot - you are NOT along ,I can't stand it!

Along? ALONE

I agree with the ass/arse thing

How about foment/ferment.
Flaunt/flout.

I thought spelt/spelled were both correct.

Text/texted? Dunno. I always say texted.

My son's dafty nursery teacher was heard correcting a child who shouted "Gizzit" with "no no, it's give us it

Actually, it is "Please may I have that if you have quite finished playing with it."

Pokethebrar - I liked that alot 😁

But, in greyponcho's defence, the Latin word aqueduct came into English via French (as did many, many of our Latinate words).

Sorry - but this is the pedants' thread...

On a similar note, someone suggested that 'verily' is from Old English?! Old English is so different from modern English as to be virtually incomprehensible to the untrained eye - and it certainly didn't have a word anything like 'verily' in it! As for verily being 'used a lot in the Bible' - well, perhaps in the King James version (written hundreds of years after Old English had been replaced by Middle English, which was replaced in turn by Modern English well before any major translations of the Bible into English!).

My apologies. I do get very upset about language issues...

Might just be a local trend (Notts) but I have seen an increasing number of people writing something like: "He as been a very good boy today." "it as been such a lovely day." Shocker.

Another think coming is definitely correct. It's a sort of joke/play on words, isn't it? It sort of isn't grammatically correct, it's more like:

Oh you "think" that do you? Well you've got another "think" coming, my fine fellow.

"Try one of those cakes, they're lovely. I et loads of them yesterday."

The et pronunciation is actually correct RP if a little outdated nowadays.

Well, 'verily' isn't Old English, but it is common Middle English, and in the Middle English translations of the Bible, so I'm not sure it matters very much?

I like the new/mistaken phrases that have clever false etymologies/explanations to go with them. I saw 'si nequa non' the other day, from someone who doesn't know that much Latin but knows what it's meant to look like.

Merchant of Venice upon looking into this further I see that the word "aqueduct" in Latin was actually "aquae ductus" and then French corrupted that to "aqueduc" from which we then took "aqueduct".

I thought that the word "aqueduct" existed in that exact form in Latin rather than simply being a Latinate word. Thanks for the clarification, and I bow to greyponcho's awareness of 16th Century French!

Yes, it's 'et' not 'eight.'

LOL @ my fine fellow

I've always said 'et' I'm outdated

I overheard someone in Tesco say "he've" to mean "he has" the other day.

“If you think just because we are at war I’m going to give my brains an opiate or send them away on a vacation, you got another think a comin’. I wasn’t built that way.“ (Jacob Marvin Rudy, 1918)

DameXanaduBramble it is another think coming!

I have a feeling DameX thinks she's right😉

I haven't read all of this - I will later, I promise - so apologies if this has already been raised but....

Iss anyone else disturbed by the increasing use of 'draw' for 'drawer'? As in, 'he put it in his draw...'

Loose instead of lose is the one that drives me mad.

A friend once sent me an email in relation to our plans going awry 'Euston, we have a problem' Which still makes me giggle more than it should.