The truth is in the pudding

[LaBelleSausage]

AIBU to want to scream every time I see or hear someone say “The truth is in the pudding”

It’s not bloody truth! The pudding isn’t some sort of weird fortune cookie.

It’s proof

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating”

I’ll even allow “The proof is in the pudding”, but I refuse to accept that there’s some steamed sponge of sincerity doing the rounds.

Taken affence (have they stolen the gate too?) instead of offence.

I had no idea it was marshmallow not marshmellow! I’ve never heard anyone pronounce it with the A. One of a whole series of plants in the hollyhock family - Common Mallow, Musk Mallow, Marsh Mallow etc - the one that grows in marshes has mucilaginous roots that were used to make a sweet called...marshmallow.

rediculous

Ah thank you! I thought I was going crackers - I've seen so many people spell it that way that I'd convinced myself I'd been spelling wrong for years.

I've never heard marshmEllow. Is it a regional thing? (I'm NW).

I also hate pacifically for specifically, ickle for little...Aaagghh

Poppins2016 yes! Bare with me!

No thank you, I’d rather we both keep our clothes on while you faff about

My one of the week is "Wallah!", instead of "Voila!"

Oh and PinInterest, instead of Pinterest.

Have any of you watched Dave Gorman on “catphrases”. Think it’s Modern Life is Goodish season 3 (maybe episode 3 but can’t quite remember). Lots of of examples of this.

DH found a funny one on a website giving tax advice: “a steep leaning kerb”. Hmm.

Re: brought and bought - I recently heard someone say brang...

Surely the truth is a lemon meringue?

Escape Goat?

DH has form when it comes to mixing up words.

Last night. I said, "I put that blob of ointment on my leg earlier and now it seems to have disappeared". He replied, "maybe it's hibernated".

I'm pretty sure he meant migrated but I did check to see if it had slipped away to the sole of my foot for a nap.

His most often repeated one is pacifically. It's a good thing we don't have a patio.

@FastWindow So I looked up fumming on urban dictionary and it didn't mean "fun bumming"… o_O

I had a colleague email me that there wasn’t a “harden fast” rule to follow.

Step foot, as in I wouldn’t step foot in that house. It’s set foot.

@JuneFromBethesda scapegoat!

I've always been desperate for an end suite.

According to DH I am a mind of information. I don’t disagree with him but have to chuckle.

Yes Alexa!! That one really winds me up. Also ‘off his own back’ what? What on Earth do they think it means? BAT! It comes off his own bat!

‘She’s having a lay down’ NO! She’s having a lie down, and maybe she’ll have a long lie, or a lie in - but it’s not ‘lay’!

‘Like sheep that pass in the night’ makes me laugh 😂

Marshmellow really irks me, too.

My dh is always coming out with toe-curling unintentional corruptions of well-known sayings. My personal favourite was "when pinch comes to crunch".

I keep seeing "With baited breath" instead of "bated breath". For all intensive purposes ;-)

It's because people write what they hear. Less reading means more people don't encounter as great a range of correct expression.

I blame the teachers.

My mother had a colleague in the secretarial pool who had spent several years closing letters,

Yours fatefully

‘Here, here’ ;)