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?

Also, "I should be grateful" is perfectly correct.

Can anyone tell me if it's "wit's end" or "wits' end" and also is it "cow's milk intolerance" or "cows' milk". These two flummox me all the time at work. Also whoever posted about "can't be arsed/asked" I wonder if it's a generation thing. I'm in my 60s and in my head it has always been "asked" but I know when younger people say it they mean "arsed"

My dictionary says both wit's and wits'. It also says 'can't be arsed' - I can't see why it would be asked.

Someone I know pronounces broccoli "broccol-eye" but spaghetti is pronounced correctly. Don't they get the Italian connection?

MIL takes 'anti flammables' for her arthuritis & serves peripherals & cream at Christmas.

DH talks about 'corn rolls' in people's hair and wearing a cumberbund.

I never mispronounce anything. Oh no, not me.....not like laconic as 'lasonic' for ages till I was corrected

I cannot stand 'would of/should of/could of'. So many people get this wrong, it's 'have' not 'of'. Would have, could have, should have.

interestingly, it's the British that get this wrong a lot more than Americans do. This is from an interesting blog that I follow about the differences between British and American English:-

separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/might-of-would-of-could-of-should-of.html

Although, talking about Americans, I work with quite a few and they all seem to use "your" and "you're" the wrong way round.

In fact they do it so consistently that I actually doubted myself for a while. It's so common that it even made me wonder if it's taught the wrong way round in US schools.

Hopalot DH pronounces it, "Broe-coly".

ikl is your dh Bristolian?

thug it has always been arsed. I think

Halcyon. I knew very well that I mispronounce this

Google says it was changed to arsed in the 1990s

Well I'll be damned.

Can someone please tell me how to pronounce 'Precedent'? is it like as in Presi-dent or as in Pre-cint..?

I'm so scared, whenever i need to use it, i just whisper it and get looks.

My boss says (and types it too):

"Ok so we're all go to the meeting"

and

"I're see what they have"

Totally bizarre.

Precedent (press-e-dent) and precinct are two different words with two very different meanings is that why you're confused?

I're ? wtf?

No, i know Precinct means something different, i used it to illustrate difference in pronunciation. I get what you're saying is its, 'press' and not 'pre'. Thanks.

Precedent (preh-sed-ent) is related to precede (pree-sEED), so TheKing may be thinking pree-sEED-ent.

Yes, Goodish that's exactly what i was confused about.

Someone on my Facebook posted details about her caravan which is for rent.
Her advert ended with "all mod and cons"
If you don't know what something means - don't use it!

Handsome no DH is from Manchester.

Imagining her caravan full of these Maybe

One I've just been reminded of by DH.. At around Christmas time we got a booklet packed full of Christmas events in the nearest big city. Lots of stalls and little fairground type rides, meet Santa of course, then an advert for "meet the huskies" before "a slay ride". Just how fucking hungry were those huskies??

As I've just seen the relevant episode of Friends, where does everyone stand on Hyundai?

Is it "hi-un-dye" (my preference)

Or "hun-day" as per the aforementioned Friends episode.

May I also submit this:

Non for none annoys the tits off me.