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Beck and call - or beckoned call?

33 replies

OhLookMarch · 19/03/2019 22:27

AIBU to actually not have a fucking clue which one is correct? It didn't occur to me until someone pointed it out. I thought it was the first one...

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Nnnnnineteen · 19/03/2019 22:28

It is the first one...

DelilahfromDenmark · 19/03/2019 22:28

The former is correct.
Have you never heard of google...

steff13 · 19/03/2019 22:28

Beck and call is correct.

AnnieOH1 · 19/03/2019 22:28

Definitely the first one.

dementedpixie · 19/03/2019 22:28

It is beck and call

FlibbertyGiblets · 19/03/2019 22:29

Beck and call.

Gavel.

kingfisherblue33 · 19/03/2019 22:29

Beck and call.

Look it up on a dictionary website - OED, Cambridge, etc...

AuditAngel · 19/03/2019 22:30

Beck and call

ShitAtScarbble · 19/03/2019 22:31

What would 'beckoned call' even mean? Are you a 'chester draws' type of person?

Angie169 · 19/03/2019 22:35

I think it is beck and call too .
As I understood it to beck or beckon some one over would be to curl your finger up and use that 'come here' motion like you would do to a child , to add to this you call them at the same time.
Beckoned would be the past tense ie ' he was beckoned over to his aunts bedside'

Angie169 · 19/03/2019 22:39

ShitAtScarbble
that phrase drives me nuts , whats wrong with them fools ?
mind you I heard a even worst one a few weeks ago when a friend said she has always wanted a 'chest of field sofa' ARGH

CheshireChat · 19/03/2019 22:57

But why not just Google it? It'll have been faster and easier Confused.

ShitAtScarbble · 19/03/2019 23:18

A 'chest of field sofa' 😂😂😂 That’s a new one. Bet I’ll be seeing that everywhere from now on!

Spiritinabody · 20/03/2019 07:33

An escaped goat Grin

drigon · 20/03/2019 07:39

Whilst working as a TA, I heard an English teacher refer to a character in a book as "obeast". Not good!

QuirkyQuark · 20/03/2019 07:41

Ahahaha you need to pop on to the fb selling thread. We're guffawing about misspelt words and phrases.

TheGlaikitRambler · 20/03/2019 07:44

My friend is convinced the saying is "open says me" instead of open sesame. Hmm

SparklesandFlowers · 20/03/2019 10:17

I saw someone on here recently post 'wala' instead of 'voila'. I've no idea where they think that's come from or why it's used the way it is.

Angie169 · 20/03/2019 21:01

ShitAtScarbble
oh god hope not I can only cope with one person saying it !

Hecateh · 23/03/2019 23:25

Do you have a ''pacific' reason for asking this question?

Oh - and the best one I ever heard

Someone told me that the baby she was expecting was going to be their last so her husband was going to have a 'vast economy'

HarryTheSteppenwolf · 24/03/2019 00:19

Whilst working as a TA, I heard an English teacher refer to a character in a book as "obeast". Not good!

I've heard lots of people referring to a coffin bring taken to the cemetery/crematorium in a "Hurst".

NuffSaidSam · 24/03/2019 00:23

Our local library had loads of posters advertising the 'Bomb Fire' celebrations on 5th November last year.

SurgeHopper · 24/03/2019 00:28

Beck and call

Middle English

SurgeHopper · 24/03/2019 00:30

Someone told me that the baby she was expecting was going to be their last so her husband was going to have a 'vast economy'

^^

Weeps

Andrea1234567 · 24/03/2019 00:30

OP probably says 'bone apple tea'

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