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?

Yes, I agree that we see much more written language than we did years ago. I've thought this myself. I'm also the parent of two dyslexics and they come out with some corkers. However, it's still 'think'. Lots of these are spoken.

My sil wrote that her daughter never seizes to amaze her.
*ceases

I also get frustrated by fb selling posts where people write offers Excepted.
*accepted

Sorry Discomoo, you'd already said mine! Glad it's not just me being a pedant!

LadyStarkOfWinterfell they sound different in my accent but then, we also have two different pronunciations of the letter i depending on word it's in, eg high sounds different to might. I remember a forum member on Digital Spy years ago who insisted that could and blood must be pronounced the same everywhere since he pronounced them the same and I can understand why he took that stance.

I know some lovely, well educated, otherwise normal people use "et" as the past tense of "eat". This is friends and people at work.

"Try one of those cakes, they're lovely. I et loads of them yesterday." Is it me?

Also, hasn't "houses" always been pronounced "houzes" ( in the south anyway, I think it's different in Scotland/Ireland) but again at work/friends it's all houSes, kniFes. I would say houZes, kniVes etc.

And all the others up thread make me fyooooooome
My entire job is teaching foreigners to speak English properly, then they listen to the locals and are like..

What about 'en pointe' ? My understanding is that it is a ballet term that now crosses over to mainstream (think X Factor judges/BGT, ETC 'you were en pointe today') yet I have seen it written down several times (once a national newspaper) as 'on point/e' Is that incorrect or is there another version of this phrase? I get bent out of shape when I see the second spelling, but wonder if I'm wrong

Shirt and herd have the same sound. As do therty and thirty.

I think it must be an accent thing. Are we going to descend into discussions of rhoticity again at some point? Shall I get in early with a "pawn/porn definitely rhyme" type statement?

It's think!
And it's merrily.

Thirty/Therty

My Dad was Scottish, and he pronounced the 'ir' in thirty similar to the 'ar' sound in 'arrive', whereas I say 'thurty'!

It's like people who say that "poor" and "paw" rhyme. Can't get my head round that at all (with my Edinburgh accent). I don't think "herd" and "shirt" have the same vowel sound either.

Mute point!
You're instead of you'll (you're have to let me know when you are free).
Chest of draws.
Defiantly instead of definitely.
Seperate instead of separate

My family in Yorkshire say "paw" and "poor" the same, whereas up here in N. Scotland, we say them very differently!

I also say "therty" - I hadn't realised that was so wrong?

I can understand why poor and paw don't rhyme to rhotic speakers even though they do to me as it's just the rhoticity but I'm not sure how a pp was so horrified by what is the normal pronunciation of thirty for where I live. Is it the r? What is the "correct" pronunciation?

I often wonder if people who write would of or similar, are convinced would have is wrong. Or do they not notice?

I don't know wether merily merrily' is the actual word in that song or 'verily'.
I grew singing 'merrily merrily', but thinking about it now, it may well be that 'Verily' is the correct word.
Verily means - 'Truly', it is old English, used a lot in the bible and it fits perfectly with the song, 'Truly, Truly, Truly, life is but a dream'.
If we swap it with 'merrily' what does that line actually mean?

Paw and poor sound exactly the same to me (south)

Paw and poor sound the same to me, too!

Can someone who pronounced them differently write them phonetically for me-I'm quite interested in how you'd say them.

How many Rs in "drawing"?

Why on earth should it be the past tense of to think? The part of the phrase is a noun, not a verb.

Just have a little think about it.

Not horrified ShowOfHands just mildly irritated but I find a lot of things irritating anyway.

Rollon
Paw has a shorter sound, like taught, fought, caught.
Poor has a longer sound, like tour, sure, moor.

Another one I hate is people getting advice/advise mixed up.

Rollon
Paw has a shorter sound, like taught, fought, caught.
Poor has a longer sound, like tour, sure, moor.

Lol-they all rhyme to me!!

But can you answer my question about why you were so sure the person in the bus station was wrong? How do you pronounce it? And now you know it's not wrong and nearly everybody on here pronounces it therty, does it stop it being irritating?

Rollon, there are some videos on YouTube explaining rhoticity. You can hear the difference that way.

Looking forward to hearing what the 'correct' pronunciation of thirty is if it isn't 'therty'... it seems I and everyone I've ever met have been pronouncing it 'incorrectly', intriguing.

Rollon, they rhyme for me too.

It's mostly to do with the r after the vowel. In a non rhotic accent, we don't pronounce the r. So if we say car, we actually say c-ahh. No r sound. It would rhyme with baa. Rhotic accents pronounce the r and car and baa couldn't rhyme.