It’s another chester draws thread...

[OccasionalNachos]

I have just discovered that my DP of 11 years - so far always seemed like a fairly decent adult man - says ‘Chester drawers’. Specifically, I was asking him where some paperwork was and he said ‘in the top Chester drawers in the spare room’

This has never happened before.

AIBU to leave?

Personally it fucks me off when people say ridiculous fancy pronunciations of things like "yaarh" instead of "year"

Isn't that just a case of accent/dialect/regional variation though? We don't all talk the same, thankfully; and it makes the country a more interesting place.

When people say "can I axe you a question" or "can I aahhrrssk you a question"

What are they meant to say? I say Ahsk (I've deliberately left out the Rs for those who can't cope with non-rhotic accents).

What people say and how they say it is down to accent, slang etc. I find written down mistakes most annoying

At least he doesn't say 'droring' when he means drawing. Or does he? If so get out now.

Wow! Is this all you can complain about? TOLERANT??

Brilliant work folks!

I now want to live in a Doggy Dog world with a shabby sheik, being entertained by a jester of goodwill.

I knew someone who used ‘puck’ as the past tense of pick. I loved it!

He went off on the wrong tact.

One that newsreaders like is 'incidences' as the plural of 'incident'.

I always wonder about 'chest of draws', if it might have been that, originally. I can see in ye olde Englishe someone referring to something you draw out as 'a draw' rather than 'a drawer'. Drawer sounds like the person that's doing the drawing IYSWIM.

Have we had 'I borrowed it to him'?

Some I quite like - yous, yiz and yeez as the plural of you. They're probably only used in Ireland, though.

I'd say "can I have a coffee", but I've never understood the fury that "can I get a coffee" causes. What's wrong with it? I genuinely don't understand The person has gone to the counter to get a coffee, not to have a coffee.

I've noticed that 'begs the question' now is used to mean what it sounds like it should mean, can't help feeling it's an improvement.

I have a friend who takes antihisterines regularly

One of my ex-bosses ordered 'Qwish' (quiche) and salad for lunch. I was at an adjoining table with a colleague and we both nearly spat out our food.

My ex once writ the shopping list......

I know it’s not exactly the same, but I see some many Facebook posts with periods saying ‘on route to.....’

Uh, it drives me mad

People saying not periods!

Who is trying to stop all the Fun speak in the country, it's all quite amusing, being too serious all the time is not good.!

When I lived in Cheshire years ago, I went to Chester to buy some drawers for my shed,to keep my tools in.

There’s a local radio newsreader who will insist on saying secuterry instead of secretary. Ouch!

Ecksetera

Espresso

PUCK!! 🤣

@NoTheresa what's wrong with 'espresso'?

Oops. Meant EXPRESSO.

Brang.

It's brought ffs!

@NoTheresa ah I see, that one annoys me too!

Or ‘someone borrowed me it’ instead of lent it.

We once had house plans drawn up where the bathroom attached to the master bedroom was labelled the ‘on sweet’.

Jenny mcalpine used to do the prize segment bit on GMTV and used to say
you could win 40,000 pound
no Jenny it's bloody POUNDS used to irritate the life out of me petty I know but still

One of my dc first teachers asked if she'd brung her teddy to school. She was stood next to a box labelled Roll Play.

In another school I saw a lovely picture labelled egog, it was a child though, so defiantly fair enough.