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?

Have been lurking.....

Just wanted to pop in to say I think one of the many authors on here MUST put Chester Draws in a book. Could be the local antiques dealer in a small village?

I do think that has come from the using Chester to describe a type of sofa that I would usually describe as Chesterfield. I will not judge whether the former is the correct as you are all far scarier knowledgeable on the pedantry front than me (or DS who can now spot a typo at 50 paces).

I also blame mobile phones and predictive typing on them for the many errors we see these days - including my own!

Hear ye, Oh hear ye!

Even though I am aware that language is a living thing with regional and temporal variance, I henceforth declare:

When rowing one's boat, one does so merrily - because life is but a dream.

When saying unto thee, one does so verily - because thou shalt tell the truth.

When one's mind is occupied with something, it could be preying on one's mind or, if a lighter thought, playing on one's mind, but it will never pray on one's mind.

Once said disturbance of thought has been dealt with, one shall have peace of mind. One may need to give a piece of one's mind to someone else, particularly if they commit a faux pas.

Chris may own whatsoever she likes, and I am willing to be flexible about her use of apostrophes, particularly if it affects the flow of the sentences. However, the issue of whether she owns many knives or knifes is currently in flux and is one of the many cross-Atlantic modern/traditional quagmires of language development.

I do hope that I have spelt all of this correctly.

Could have cared less is a contraction of "I could have cared less, if ..." (insert hyberbole of choice).

But used by itself, I couldn't care less makes more sense.

Again - it's a US/UK difference that is now getting blurred.

Has anybody mentioned the misunderstood overuse of 'and I'?

My husband and I went for a lovely walk, however when we stopped for lunch (possibly at a Brewers Fayre) the waiter did not give my husband I plates for the salad bar.

Of for 've gives me the rage.

Confusing impatient and inpatient always makes me giggle. Not one to mix up, really.

Things labeled in fridges at work today:
tomatoe's
cucumber's
potatoe's
WTAF??

Oh, and the Mongolia-painter was discussing All EXclusive holidays today. Really? There's nothing included?

Ooooh reallybadidea has reminded me of the myself/yourself nightmare.

"Myself at the office will phone you tomorrow, if that's ok with yourself."

It. Doesn't. Bloody. Work. Like. That.

It doesn't sound fancy, it sounds illiterate.

"I will phone you tomorrow." It's that easy!

DaphneCan that made me laugh myself

Just wanted to pop in to say I think one of the many authors on here MUST put Chester Draws in a book. Could be the local antiques dealer in a small village?

An antiques dealer would know better, surely?

There's a conversation in my current work in progress I could work it into, as dialogue. I've already got a character saying 'could of'.

I wonder if 'defiantly' comes from people typing 'definately'? My autocorrect suggests defiantly as a correction.

Utmost, not upmost.
Set foot, not step foot.

I've not RFTF but what about this one. I always thought 'fair dos' what the correct phrase, my husband says 'fair dues'. Does anyone know who is right?

I think a lot of the mispellings highlighted on this thread are coming from the increased use of auto spellcheckers and not necessarily because standards have fallen. An old school mate posted these gems in a message yesterday; 'Spearing' instead of sparing, 'Shearing' instead of sharing, repeated more than once. I was gobsmacked, it had to be a spellchecker error surely, surely??

I have had 'you're' changed to 'your' on many occasions whilst texting myself

harrietvane I think that the idea was to name the antiques dealer character Chester Draws, as a joke, not have him use the phrase to describe his goods.

Harriet - nominative determinism(?). He could be the local doctor, but was figuring that with a name like that, he'd surely be something to do with furniture. Perhaps manager of the local IKEA?

He couldn't live in Chester-le-Street though....too confusing when trying to arrange his car insurance...

Doing something 'off your own back' gives me the rage. It's bat.

'Hence why' is another one. Surely that's tautology, and 'hence' will do?

'In one foul swoop' is another one I hear regularly.

There was a chocolate rolarde on the menu board the other day

My late ex-MIL was a big fan of 'profitero rolls.'

How do you pronounce the Pri in Primark? I say the Pri to rhyme with My, as did everyone where I'm from, everyone here says the Pri to rhyme with Me.

Tell me I'm correct, please :)

I pronounce it Pree- mark not Pry-mark.

I pronounce it Pri as in Primary or Prime, just like you Woman

Dh and myself still chuckle at the linguistic fopar committed by a hairdresser who called him over to see how absolutely 'ravenous' I looked with my lovely new hairdo! (Or should that be hairdue?)

Pri like my

I hate myriad of... If you're going to be fancy enough to use myriad at least use it correctly.

Myself makes me so cross.

God, hence why is dreadful. Combine with another favourite of mine to make:

'Hence why, going forward...'

I am so sorry

meowli Would that be ‘faux pas’ then?

I have a colleague who pronounces cache, 'cachet'. To rhyme with sachet, or sashay. We work in IT