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?

"Matalan" always makes me laugh, I love it. To the point that I now call it Mataland. See also "the Asdas", after hearing a friend from Portsmouth refer to Asda as such.

HemanOrSheRa Unbelievable isn’t it? We’re getting into Dave Gorman territory now.

Cat phrase instead of Catchphrase
Right from the gecko instead of Right from the get go
Escaped goat instead of scapegoat.

@BritWifeinUSA

can’t stand it when people say “I could care less”. No, no, no! You “couldn’t care less” is what you mean to say.

This will be argued as the correct way to say it, because they are implying that they could care less but they just can't get that worked up over something so utterly unimportant.

I say that I couldn't care less though, which implies the same but sounds better IMO.

DF always referred to a metrass (mattress) for reasons that I could never fathom.

My colleague at work told me that she was going to get her friend to crot-chet a knitted blanket for her grandchild (not yet born). I bit my tongue very hard. She also always has to add an apostrophe to word's that do not require one (see what I did there?)

I seen, I done - these make me want to strangle people!

Mine says 'loose' instead of 'lose' ,infuriating!

Doggy dog world

🤣

Nip it in the butt.

I confess Google helped me with that one.

Irregardless - as voiced by the a four mentioned Donald Chump.

I’ve seen a lot of ques for queues on here recently. Ok, you can’t tell the difference when it’s pronounced but still.

Also, revert back. No, it’s just revert.

A girl at school once asked me how to spell 'ketchup'. It seemed an odd question given what the teacher had asked us to do so I asked her for the sentence she was using it in. Her reply: "My brother ran up the hill and I tried to ketchup to him".

I personally find people pronouncing 'clique' as 'click' annoying.
I used to have a friend, quite posh, RP voice, who for some reason always said 'aks' instead of 'ask'.

I worked with someone who used to say conquest instead of inquest.

I blame phonics and not teaching grammar...

I don't understand why some people insist on making a singular word plural eg the baby is one years old ( Holly Willoughby said it last week on This Morning) and a shop cashier saying " That will be one pounds 35 please."

I knew someone who used to say 'dizzabled' and 'dizzgusting'.

The supermarket thing happens in Germany too. People say (the equivalent of) 'to the Aldi' instead of 'to Aldi'. Or they use the word for 'to' that means 'to a geographical place' (nach).

Chester draws you say? Well, that's just bazaar!

My DH says skellington instead of skeleton

He is pretty good at all the other words in the English language except this one. It makes him sound like an idiot.

I fucking hate Halloween.

Shabby Sheek sign anyone? Can combine postage with a seiling light

@gran22 Yes! "Could of" irritates me so much.

Right up there with everyone who spells definitely as "definately", how in the era of spell-check and autocorrect is this happening?!

A colleague refers to our "Code of Ethnics".

Peddle stool was one I once heard 😱

You need to take a day off work tomorrow. Gather up all your stuff and leave. There is really no way forward from this. Leave him with Chester and Nester.

I had a client once refer to her armpits as “arm holes”.

Fucking stupid.

Isn’t the point that most people pronounce it so it sounds a bit like ‘chester drawers’, which is what’s led to so many people misspelling it? In my circle we seldom fully pronounce the ‘of’ in casual speech, so it often sounds like ‘chest o’ drawers’, which in turn sounds similar to ‘chester’.

It’s like ‘cup of tea’ and ‘fish and chips’. The middle word is often slurred or swallowed into a schwa sound.

Also a friend of my DH is an educated person who pronounces ‘segue’ as ‘seeg’ and will not have it that he’s mispronouncing it. Even when several friends have shown him pronunciation guides!

There's a woman on a selling site local to me who writes wiv instead of with. The first time I saw it I thought it was a mistake but she does it constantly. How can you not spell with?? She doesn't seem to have problems spelling any other words at all before I get slated.

Shabby sheik has tickled me. Am picturing a very small man walking through a desert wearing swathes of white fabric. But try as I might I can’t make him look scruffy, because they’re all very rich dontcha know?