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

528 replies

oldlaundbooth · 30/05/2016 17:42

AIBU?

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

It's 'make do', right?

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StealthPolarBear · 30/05/2016 22:25

Another vote for think
Loose and lose - I think we're going to loose that battle sorry folks ;)
I can answer dd school. My phone recognises dd but will not do the reSt and if I type it it corrects it to something similar like 'timbuktu'. Sometimes it's just more effort than I'm prepared to spend

Creasedupcrinkle · 30/05/2016 22:27

Damp Squid. Oh my actual god it's SQUIB. Squib. Not a fucking seafood thingy!!!

StealthPolarBear · 30/05/2016 22:28

I've noticed too and to get mixed up so much more. I'm taking ds too school. I'll pop on and have a word with the head while I'm there to.
I am a bitch but I see some threads started by people who are asking about getting back into the workplace (usually they had a very senior job pre dc) and they are barely literate. I make a fair amount of typos but it's clear when someone just doesn't actually know.

meowli · 30/05/2016 22:28

Haha! This is wonderful. AIBU meets Pedant's Corner Grin I love it!

Oh, and it's think btw.

StealthPolarBear · 30/05/2016 22:29

Ooh damp squid has reminded me of something I remembered earlier today that was annoying me
..arrgh

StealthPolarBear · 30/05/2016 22:32

Why does anyone think it's damp squid? Surely squid are fairly damp anyway. A dry squid would be notable.

DeadGood · 30/05/2016 22:35

SPB, your comment is perfect

DeltaSunrise · 30/05/2016 22:37

Verily? WTF? Grin

It's Merrily, Merrily....

ShowOfHands · 30/05/2016 22:37

It is think. Opinion doesn't come into it. There is a right answer and that is that it's think.

Ect for etc is very common.

I was stood/sat is used a lot too.

Myself/yourself is the pronoun of choice atm.

absolutelynotfabulous · 30/05/2016 22:38

stealth maybe people haven't heard of the word "squib"? And, as they've heard of the word "squid", which is a seafoody thing and therefore damp, they assume that's the correct word (rubs chin)..

annandale · 30/05/2016 22:38

We had a lost cat poster around our way recently. 'Find Are Cat' it started and went downhill from there. Sadly they had lost their cat in a very naice area so every single poster had little Biro corrections on it. (They did get the cat back).

DailyMaui · 30/05/2016 22:41

Draw for drawer makes me cringe and EVERYBODY I work with seems to use it.

"please put them in your draws"

"I left it in my draw"

etc etc

Makes me scream

FlowersAndShit · 30/05/2016 22:48

SIL forgets to use 'an' in a sentence. She says things like "we had a ice-cream". Oh and "I should of went", does my fucking nut in. Seriously though, this is the sort of stuff you learn in primary school, how can people be so thick?

Allalonenow · 30/05/2016 22:49

Are instead of our is creeping in, I think it must be to do with accent/pronunciation changes.

"Tow the line" instead of "toe the line", like thing/think it makes the meaning of the saying incomprehensible.

"Here here" is often used by those who don't know the full saying.

Creasedupcrinkle · 30/05/2016 23:04

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

EEVEElution · 30/05/2016 23:07

Was hoping someone would mention Chester drawers!

While we're here, is it 'preying on my mind' or 'playing on my mind'? Or can it be both?

DeltaSunrise · 30/05/2016 23:09

I've always said preying on my mind.

clary · 30/05/2016 23:19

I told a class of yr 7s the French word for "chest of drawers" recently and they laughed out loud and said what on earth was a "chest of drawers"?

I explained it was the bit of furniture you store knickers and T shirts in - turns out they all called that drawers. As in "in my bedroom I have my bed, my desk, my drawers..."

My drawers is my knickers to me

Topseyt · 31/05/2016 00:58

Absolute, sorry. It is "Merrily".Wink

Topseyt · 31/05/2016 01:02

The Chester Draws one was from a thread which was on here a few months back.

The OP of that thread had spotted someone advertising one for sale on Facebook.Grin

MardleBum · 31/05/2016 01:05

IT IS ANOTHER THINK COMING.

If you think that then you've got another think coming.

Why on earth would it be thing? That doesn't make any sense at all.

Beeziekn33ze · 31/05/2016 01:24

Some posters have got another think coming!

crabb · 31/05/2016 01:36

A recently seen aberration that seems to be proliferating: 'Oh he's the best - but maybe I'm bias'. Just. What?

NickiFury · 31/05/2016 02:11

I can't bear it when I read "I can't bare it". Don't you realise what you're actually saying when you mix those two words up?

KickAssAngel · 31/05/2016 02:49

THINK

It's a noun. ie, I'll sit here and have a little think about it.
And a verb. I'll think about that some more.

So if you think that (verb) you've another think (noun) coming. ie, at some point, the truth will bludgeon you from behind, when you have an a-ha moment and the right 'think' will pop into your head.

Sometimes a parent may aid the arrival of the second think with a swift tap to the back of the head (not that I'm advocating violence).