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?

Do pronunciations count? If so, I'd like to know what happens to the vowels in batt'ry, p'lice and med'cine. Also, I'd like to know where the missing syllables in Feb-ry and lib'ry go to.

I wince. Every. Single. Time. hopefully not visibly though

Urgh, someone on the telly said "haitch" earlier. My ears!!

"Haitch" is dreadful. I get my English wrong all the jeffing time and admit to being a complete hypocrite, but "haitch" takes the biscuit. It's not regional, it's wrong.

reallybadidea I agree about the recent overuse of 'cue...' It's awful. Especially when the poster uses it more than once in the same post. It makes me want to hit someone.

Speaking of the H 'it's regional 'thing, I never knew until I came on MN that people in the Midlands often use mom instead of mum. Okay, fair enough but why is there an annoying huge increase in the usage of mom on MN and in the UK generally? I know we have a few transatlantic posters but I get the feeling lots of Brits are now choosing to abandon mum in favour of mom and it's giving me the rage. They aren't all from Wolverhampton, surely?

I don't like 'fast forward to...' in OPs. It's not inaccurate, but it's bloody annoying.

I have a real thing about people using 'less' when they mean 'fewer'. The times I've had to hide my face and mouth 'fewer' just to release the tension hearing it causes.

Italics fail.

fewer

Also, I find myself irrationally irritated by 'bored of' instead of 'bored by'.

I do realise I may need to get a life on this one.

it's another 'thing' because it's an entirely separate entity to the 'thing' one was 'thinking' of before.

yep,

'If you think you've won the lottery, you've got another thing coming'

The thing coming is not a lottery win.

'If you think I'd stand idly by whilst you hit him you've got another thing coming'

The thing coming is not what you thought -nothing- there's something else coming as well= another thing.

Another 'think' is just too wrong for something so old.

Nope.

Syne do you ever use it oher than after "if you think ... you have another thing/think coming"?
If you want to go into town you have another thing coming?
If you carry on behaving badly you have another thing coming?

Syne - no, it's NOT another thing.

Syne, you're wrong.

addicted maybe not mom in the transatlantic sense, but a version of mum that's hard to write down? Like a kind of northerny way of saying it?

I say mam (Wales).

Syne, sorry but that is bollocks.

Think can also be a noun.

Look at some of the links that have been provided. Or do you know better than the Oxford English Dictionary team?

Oh not the 'thing/think coming thing again - it's THINK!

Re. the use of 'Mom' by non-Midlands Brits: I've noticed it used in .com blogs/websites which are obviously going for the US audience/market as well as the British one. Of course the effect is that it becomes normalised through familiarity. Maybe one day it will be the most popular term rocks.

Forgot the second apostrophe! 'Another thing/think coming' thing .

I've been following this for days. That the "another think/thing" argument is still going is hilarious. Sorry. It is THINK as allllll the links prove. I haven't seen a single thing link yet that proves that side of the argument.

Ex used to say pedal stool instead of pedestal. I showed him a dictionary to prove I was right. Which he couldn't believe because he had been to university didn't stop him being a dick though did it? I'm a huge grammar fan though yes and a wierdo and it has been helped and encouraged by learning another language too so, a win for grammar..... Who'd have thunk.

Late to the thread, have we done 'heal' for 'heel'?

Some of the S&B threads about summer footwear are full of this.

Crikey it's 'think' not 'thing'. Gibbers.

I said this on page 1.

Def. THINK not THING. Never has been 'thing'. THINK THINK THINK!

Anyone who thinks it's thing has definitely got another think coming
Or they should have by now
What does it take?

I think the heal/heel thing is down to auto correct and predictive text. My phone makes me look like I've never picked up a pen or read a book in my life