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?

We shall have to get the pry minister to adjudicate!

Draw and drawer
Law and lor

All sound the same in my accent

Mine too.

Loads of people call car boot sales a car booty though don't they?

LTB

It's the kids I feel for, hope they're ok

It’s people that buy paintent shoes that annoy me! From Mataland.

Thought it was just me, but I always love a chester drawers description on the local Sell and Seek. I like it even better if it is "defiantley" a chester drawers.

Queue Cue and Que are three different words. One isn't even English!

There was a thread a few days ago where the OP had an Agar.

One of those oil fired cooker things: an Agar!

I have seen both kitchen draw and on route on the BBC News app recently.

It's the End of Days

'Led' for 'laid' is pretty bad, but so many people get confused between 'lay', 'lying' and 'laid' anyway that I can't get excited about 'led'

@Mother87

Is your DH very old and getting confused with 'UCCA' which was the predecessor of UCAS?

I was having an online exchange once with a man. I used the word “presumptuous”.
“I think you mean presumptious
“Er, no, presumptuous”
“Presumptious”

It’s one thing to be an arrogant SPAG twat, but a far worse thing to be an arrogant SPAG twat who insists on getting it wrong!

Is your DH very old and getting confused with 'UCCA' which was the predecessor of UCAS?

It was UCCA when I applied to uni, and I’m not “very old” thank you very much 😡

I've seen on root ( for a takeaway delivery) and it took me a minute to figure out what it meant.
I have a neighbour ( she's lovely) who has mild learning difficulties, but she keeps saying university credit instead of universal.
( no, I haven't corrected her. That'd be cruel)

on route

At least that makes sense though.

I have a vision of the elderly returning home with chunks out of them, when they return from RESTBITE

@NiLunNiLautre

It was just a joke - it was UCCA for me too

Sorry Really hadn't had my coffee at that point, so had a bit of a sense of humour failure!

And I am a bit old, to be fair.

I once had a child ask for the spelling of "fission" during story writing, and as it seemed unlikely in the context of what we were writing about, I asked for the sentence. It turned out to be "on the way home, we bought fish and chips."
I have several bugbears but usually bite my tongue as I know what was intended. Pedantry for pedantry's sake is just discourteous.
"My eyes were literally pinned to the noticeboard" - they seem to be safely back, undamaged, in their sockets now. Replace "literally" with a better adverb.
If you affect something, you change it. If you effect it, you make it happen.
"Damp squid". Squids are sea creatures, so always damp. A damp squib, on the other hand, is a firecracker whose detonation has been marred by being moist, in other words, an anti-climax.
Should of, would of, instead of should have, would have.
Free rein, not free reign; a riding term for letting a horse run unrestrained.
"Tenterhooks" are the hooks for stretching newly woven fabric on a frame, causing physical tension. hence slightly apprehensive expectation as a figure of speech. "Tender hooks" would be neither use nor ornament.
I could go on.......
Before Parents' Evenings, Open Days, I was the nitpicker sent round the building to check displays, so that I could spot solecisms before a sharp-eyed parent did!
These days, I go with the flow, the meaning is what matters, but woe betide if you get picky with me......

My DP says 'Heighth' instead of 'Height' and it drives me spare

It’s defiantly wrong! Kerb your enthusiasm and wait patiently in the cue.

No, no, no, no ,no.

It's because nobody reads these days.

And are often quite proud of the fact that 'I never read a book since I were at school, and they were all rubbish.'

One of my pet hates
"learned me"

No, nobody learned you. They taught, you learned!

Lots of SEILING lights for sale on eBay.