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?

rollon here in South Wales poor is pronounced "pooo-uh". No rolled "r" at the end, though.

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." confused Is it me?

The received pronunciation of 'ate' is actually 'ett'!

Discrete discreet
Reefs wreaths
Gawjus gorgeous

I'm a non-rhotic Southerner, and they sound different to me!

Go on, someone tell me, how many Rs in drawing?

thekingarrives thankyou (blows kiss).

That's exactly what I was thinking. Verily makes more sense in the context of the song. (even though every Google search brings up "merrily").

Like this

Only one r in drawing for me.

Another bugbear of mine is 'heals' instead of heels. I see that a lot lately.

life "drawing" is DRAW-ING. Not DRAW-RING.

I think people put in an extra "r" to make it easier to pronounce. (looking at you, practically everyone on the box).

There are no Rs in drawing but a non rhotic speaker may vocalise an intrusive r while a rhotic speaker may insert a glottal stop. Peculiarities of speech innit. It's been that way for 300 years.

Had a boss who would say something was Pacific instead of specific. He was an utter twat.

I don't think there is a 'correct' pronunciation of thirty. It's all down to regional accent. In Liverpool it will be 'therty', with an unsounded 'r', In Scotland it will be thurty with a short 'u' and a rolled 'r', as in 'Thurrock '. I say thurty, similar to the way Thursday is pronounced in the South!

Our local cafe sells rashes of bacon.

Yes, Gary Barlow singing Forever Autumn, sings 'The nights are draw-ring in'. Grates on me but I suppose it is regional. I have a south western Welsh accent so who am I to criticise?

There isn't a correct pronunciation. There are just accents. I wondered what PissOff thought was correct though and if it was related to the pronunciation of the r.

Complimentary and complementary.
Discrete and discreet.
Uninterested and disinterested.

Gawjus I can handle. But reefs? Heals? Rashes? No. Just no.

My mammy has a number of spoonerisms.

My favourite is a man who spends a lot of time by himself. A real lone shark.

A friend's mother accused her of selfishly "feathering her own canoe"

Octopus aren't they malapropisms rather than spoonerisms?

Good point flys. Milly se

Exactly! Nobody writes 'drawring' (not after about Y2, anyway), so why don't they say it properly? 'Would of' may be illiterate, but it's an understandable mistake.

I've never heard it said with a glottal stop.

I don't think "on point" is a malapropism for "en pointe". It's a term in its own right originally meaning "to the point" or "apposite" but now meaning something closer to "spot on" or perfect.

The one that winds me up, and which is endemic on MN, is the confusion between queue, cue, and que?

I have to look up complimentary and complementary, and affect and effect sometimes

Cunty I've been looking at decorative reefs to decorate the isle at my wedding

I like 'rest bite'

www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/nov/18/mind-your-language-another-think

meowly I am north of England and say 'thurty', DH (Scots) says 'thairty' - like the French e with an acute accent. MIL often pronounced 'ferile' as 'Fair Isle', to great confusion.