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?

I adore "Cup a chino" and "Chicken Phillips".

In fact I now dub "fried" chicken done in the Airfryer "Chicken Phillips".

My husband uses Sangwidge instead of sandwich. I now say (in my head) there is no g in sandwich every time he says the word,

The kids at school used to say to teacher DM 'do you have a pencil?' to which DM would reply, 'yes, I do, thank you.' Then she would leave them there to puzzle out why she hadn't handed them a pencil. Also 'how' instead of 'why' drove me nuts, as that is what was said where I lived for too many years.

Just saw this pop up on my fb news feed. I’ve never actually seen it in real Internet life before 😀

I’ve told this one before. But mil is an estate agent. And sometimes sends us the briefs for houses so we can see what she’s up to.

One of my most faves included wording along these lines “kitchen leading onto airy family room with large folding doors and aywalla there you are - in the garden”

aywalla = Et voilá

She’s also ordered a gilet in a cafe before. Specifically a cheese and ham gilet. And tried to buy a galette in a shop here. When she should have been doing them the other way round. We’ve suggested she stop using the term and maybe stick to “pancakes” and “body warmers” instead! 😂

I trained DH to stop saying “should of” before we moved in together!!
His sister says “we was” which irritates me - and DH has never said that, which makes me wonder why as they are twins so had same family, same school - why did she not pick up “we were”?

@Colourfulest
But recently the worst was when he said 'proNOUNciate' instead of 'pronunciate'.

Oh the irony 🤦‍♀️

Very ironic given there's no such word as pronunciate. Were you looking for pronounce, or pronunciation?

His sister says “we was” which irritates me - and DH has never said that, which makes me wonder why as they are twins so had same family, same school - why did she not pick up “we were”?

Different friend group. I say "I was" and "I seen" but I certaintly don't use them in a professional or formal setting, nor do I write them.

@ThePants999 I don't know anymore 😂😂😂

Ugh. This is like the time I laughed at my Portuguese friend for making up the word inauguration (which is of course a word, I just hadn't ever heard it).

Saying AST instead of ask or asked.

In a southern accent, it sounds like "arsed", eg "I arsed him". I always get an image of someone bowling someone else over with one swing of their buttocks.

Southern accent would be 'ahsed' wouldn't it? No random R's

Lend & borrow is one that drives me mad. "Can I lend a pencil from you?"

No.

If you need to borrow a pencil I can lend it to you.

My sister insists on saying 'arthuritis' - should I go NC?

a friend of mine always says "car has gone into nymph mode" when he means limp mode! It happens quite a lot.....

I would regularly pull people up on words, then I discovered that alot of words are pronounced incorrectly because it's only been read in a book and not spoken or heard (something that I am guilty of)
So I'll give the benefit of the doubt, until proven otherwise, then all bets are off 😄

Years ago (1950/60's) on the edge of town there was a brothel. When I moved here my DH was telling me a bit of history of the town. We were driving past one day, years after it had closed and DH said that's where the bother house was. It took me ages to work out what he meant.

Southern accent would be 'ahsed' wouldn't it? No random R's

🙄

Thought of some funny ones my daughter used to say as a child...i might add she now uses the correct terminology.

Bskettii. Spaghetti
Lasavine. Vaseline
Viganer. Vinegar
Head mice. Head lice.
Strangled eggs. Scrambled eggs

Lol..we do still laugh about them though, she would be mortified if she knew i had posted this.

Strangled eggs 😂😂😂😂😂

DS always said 'dressing down' for dressing gown and it stuck, along with 'Umzebra' for umbrella as he would get confused when playing with flash cards.

I planted some hanging baskets for his house the other week and he thanked me and asked me if it was 'labia' in there. No son, but the lobelia is looking lovely...

I got married recently and spent the last 15 months on lots of wedding forums on FB. The one that infuriates me more than anything else I saw was 'walking down the isle' its an Aisle or are you just going on a bloody long walk grr!!!!! haha

Orivwa, loosers.... 😏

Late MIL insisted on putting her feet up on her pooh-fay (pouffe).

I have a friend who was looking for a retirement gift...she wanted an ackaridge clock...we were gazumped and had no clue..thinking these might be from over seas or new to the market so we had not yet seen one or knew about them...we asked loads of people if they knew where Kate could purchase an ackaridge clock ..sadly no one heard of them...turns out to be a carriage clock....she has never lived it down....

Alot, aswell, infact all drive me crazy. Misuse of apostrophes, especially when inconsistent (why coffee's but then teas?).