in hating "of" instead of "have"

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I just cringe every time I see it.

Oh for goodness sake!!!!

Ask youself: Did the person speaking/writing know what they were trying to say/write to you? Did YOU understand what they were trying to say/write to you?

If the answer is YES, then the communication is successful!

Language develops!!!

unreasonable..trite and petty.

'cringe'...at what precisely?

I would cringe at the (mis)use of the word "learn" instead of the word "teach".

Not unreasonable; it drives me crackers.

Oh, and I've never heard 'another think coming' before in my life.

Unquiet, you are one stubborn fellow! It is clearly 'you've got another think coming' ie your original thought is incorrect and you will have to change your mind. 'Another thing' is just mistaken. What other thing, for heaven's sake? Doesn't make any sense! The phrase refers to a thought process, not a 'thing'. The word 'another' should make that clear - 'If you think that you've got another think coming. 'Another' implies there is a further thought! Not some random 'thing' which makes no sense at all.

things have moved on from the OP I see, but Ijust have to say that every time Scott Mills talks about X "off of" Y i.e (Scott Mills off of Radio 1) I want to put my foot through the car radio in a totally unreasonably irritated fashion.....it's "from" FFS.....

It's 'think'

As in 'if you think you're going swimming, you've got another "think" coming'. It fits the develpoment of colloquial language very well. i.e the speaker knows it is an anachronistic use of 'think'.

Why do people keep wanting me to repeat myself?
I've outlined below in great detail why it's "thing", and what exactly thr "thing" is which is being referred to, and why I believe "think" is a corruption.
See my posts of 16:55:56, and yesterday at 22:53:04, among others.

So where does this leave Dr Zeus's ''The Thinks You Can Think'' ?

of course it is think. that's a very interesting point crumpet, about changing from a humorous but ungrammatical saying to a less funny but more correct one - bit like victorians changing welsh rabbit to rarebit.

i am driven to insane gibbering by use of slither for sliver. it is a SLIVER like a small SLICE not slithering around like a bleeding SNAKE.

Well, this morning I am, as the 'meeja' like to say, shocked and stunned. I asked dh whether he is in the 'thing' or the 'think' camp and it seems he's in the latter!!!!!!! How can I have known with this man for over 35 years, completely unaware that we diverged so drastically on this subject? I'm not sure I can go on living with him - I do have grounds for divorce, don't I?

From asking around, about half think it's think, and the other half thing it's thing.

Generally each half things the other half is mad.

When people tell me it can't be think because think's a verb, I ask them to have a think about it.

another one - I can't bear the misuse of "mortified"

"Methodology" instead of "method". But that's for a thread about pretentious business speak.

Well, I have always assumed that it was "thing coming" and never heard "think" mentioned in that context. I was all ready to jump to UD defense until I actually started thinking about it.

In terms of slow conversion from one word to another due to mis-speaking transferring to the written word, surely it is more likely to have started off as "think" and been misheard as "thing"?

This is down to the sentence itself. When you say "thing coming" quickly and in casual speak, you don't really pronounce the "G". When you say "think coming" the two words are harder to say at speed due to the two "C" sounds between the words. So you tend to say "thin-coming", not properly pronouncing the "K". This could easily be construed as sounding like "thing coming". It doesn't seem possible however to mistake it the other way round.

I bet that made NO sense...

Back to the op, my dad once had a secretary who told him that he 'shouldn't of done that' and his reply was 'maybe not, but I of'

The correct phrase, as mentioned by edam and others, is 'you've got another think coming'.

You've got another thing comin' is a Judas Priest album from 1982...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You've_Got_Another_Thing_Comin'

"Thing" predates Judas bloody Priest, fgs.

I also hate "mortified", and the use of "literally" when it means anything but. "I was literally over the moon at scoring that goal, Gary."

Also constantly see "enormity" and "fulsome" misused in the press.

And disinterested also.