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?

There is an epidemic of 'he's' instead of 'his' on MN at the moment. I just cannot fathom how somebody can really think they are the same word.

Saw 'bub bear' recently too. Perhaps it was a typo

What the heck is a "bub bear"?

And how can it be another think coming? That means "think" is a noun. What's a think? .

THINK!

Of course it's think, how on earth could it be thing? What thing would I coming?

Hmm, let me have a think about that...

Bloody phone what thing would I have coming?

I've seen hoarse when it should have been horse.

That was in a piece of writing displayed on a school wall in the English department. It was about hoarse horse riding.

Also, my DD3's primary school class did a project on the Queen's coronation during one of the jubilee years. I was aghast to see that most of the children, my DD included, had spelled coronation correctly, but each time the teacher had corrected it to corAnation ffs. I was soooo itching to grab a big red marker pen and go through the wall displays correcting it all again.

This expression is used as a rebuke, often in constructions similar to "If X thinks that Y, he/she has another think coming!" Sometimes the word got is included, in the familiar constructions has got and have got, as "(someone)'s got another think coming", "they've/you've got another think coming".

The form to have another thing coming is often seen, and may have been aided by a mishearing of the /k/ of think blended with the /k/ of coming, making think sound like thing.

It's 'another thing coming'. As in, '...if you think THIS is right, you've another thing coming...'

Yes, Acrobatics, said no one ever!

It's definitely THINK

And it's definitely definitely and not defiantly which I see all over the place.

Bought/Brought drives me mad.

I'm an editor with a degree in English Language. It is 'another think coming' as clunky as it may sound!

It doesn't sound clunky,it sounds correct

No. It is absolutely "another THINK coming" because it is an instruction to think again.

On what planet would thing make the remotest bit of sense in such a context? You can't tell someone to thing again. That would just be bollocks.

Ballball for bauble is one which I've seen and stuck with me.

Can I moan about people who put clothes in a draw? DRAWER.... It's in a bloody drawer or its in a drawing but not a draw

Having just had a wee Google, I saw an article that said 'think' as a noun was previously in much more common use than it is now. So another think coming would have made perfect sense to Victorians when it sounds a bit weird to us. Another thing coming makes sense grammatically but is completely meaningless if you actually think about it.

I always thought it was 'another thing coming' and I thought the thing coming was a smack.

That's how it was used by my parents anyway, eg: "If you don't tell me the truth you'll have another thing coming." and fist would be raised.

Never heard the phrase preceeded by 'if you think this then...' though so maybe that's why I never thought about it too hard.

Think think think think think it's THINK

Omg on route makes me stabby

The one I see soooo much is "oh I'll give you one of are ones"
Are!?! Are!!!! Farkin hell

Foofoobum, those people are often the same ones who store their clothes in a chester draws.

Definitely another think coming! See www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/think

It's bugbear
Think
due
assume
inanimate
his
their
they're
there
and we don't pronounce three as free even if you are David Beckham

Technically it should it be '...You've got another thought coming...' as thought is the past tense of think.

So, in the abscence of thought, it's another 'thing' because it's an entirely separate entity to the 'thing' one was 'thinking' of before.

grammarist.com/usage/another-think-coming/