to think someone should know doggy dog makes no sense?

[Juells]

Heard someone (on TV) using this yesterday. "It's a doggy dog world". Why do people think this means anything?

Later (think it was on Antiques Road Trip) someone said they were thinking of changing tact.

Irregardless is not a word. It's either regardless, or irrespective.

www.dictionary.com/e/is-irregardless-a-word/

A lady at church refers to:
Cartridge (Cartilage) trouble
Bronical (Bronchial)
Old Timers' disease (Alzheimers). I can see why she thinks that may be the right term to use though.

Whenever my DH goes to the vending machine for a drink he'll ask others if they want a drink. His friend always asks for an Expresso. DH doesn't like to correct him but always says "I'll be as quick as I can". His friend just answers "okay" and has no idea my DH is having a smile at what he says.

this is one of my pet professional hates. And yes, a half competent proofreader (not to mention copy-editor) SHOULD bloody well pick it up!

Not all books are copy-edited and/or proofread. Sometimes because there isn’t capacity in the budget, occasionally because the writer refuses to be edited (there are a couple of ‘big name’ authors who are known to take this stance, and whose books contain many errors as a result).

Or if editing/proofreading is done, the editor/proofreader may be briefed to make technical changes only, rather than linguistic amendments. Or they may be being paid an absolute pittance, and hence skim through the text on a very superficial level only.

A woman I knew told me that as they couldn't afford any more children her husband was having a 'vast economy'.

Another told me she had stopped smoking since completed a 'smoking sensation' course

Ah a kiosk.

I can almost hear it now Laiste

My DM persists in calling a prostate a prostrate. I think she knows it's incorrect but can't stop herself now.

*completing

and a typo that makes me laugh is when people talk about 'fiends' instead of ''friends'.

@Blutopia could alakeefit be 'alakefic'? I have never heard of it but there do seem to be a number of people using it/agreeing on its meaning (and which I can see someone taking to mean 'had a laissez-faire attitude')
jacn.co.uk/2015/11/11/alakefic/amp/

Irregardless of what you all think, this is a great thread.

@cinnabarmoth OMG that's it, exactly! How on earth mum came to be using RAF slang I'll never know, she doesn't come from a military family at all, but that's exactly how she uses it.

Thank you, how very clever of you.

It's not a great phrase really. Any idea who coined it?

I think it is deliberately not correct though, It's the last half of "Well if you think X, then you've another think coming"

A bit like, "oh wine is it? I'll wine ye"

Here is a clue "if you THINK X, you've got another THINK coming"
I say "the world's my ochster" which I believe is Scottish slang for armpit. I also say "skellington" coz it's funny and DH and I also say "when X comes to fruitation" having heard Glenn Hoddle say it years ago.
I dislike "all holes barred"!!

I read a book once where in the first chapter a character fell into a comma.

I didn't read any further.

I know these incorrect phrases or words as 'eggcorns' - here's a poem using loads:

sesquiotic.com/2010/06/02/my-veil-of-tears/

'I haven't done anythink wrong' is a mispronunciation of 'thing'. But it's 'another think [not 'thing'] coming'.

I like it. The non-standard usage makes it memorable and gives it an oomph 'you'll have to think again' doesn't have. It sounds very slightly menacing, which I think is the intent.

'I read a book once where in the first chapter a character fell into a comma.
I didn't read any further.'

Davros- oxters does indeed mean armpits. As in "I'm up to my oxters in debt".

I always have to add 'marshmellow' to these threads.

I once read over on MSE about someone receiving a "Jester of Goodwill" and to this day imagine them opening the door to a brightly coloured bloke with bells wishing them well.

😂

colourless, I know all these things. What annoys me is when a book HAS been copy-edited and then I’m asked to proofread it, and it’s full of errors and oversights. You get paid more for copy-editing than proofreading and I resent that they could have asked me to do the copy-edit, so I would have earned more and he standard would have been higher.

Spellings etc ARE technical changes and it would be a strange brief indeed that asked someone to disregard them. I’ve never been asked to do so in a career of 10+ years.

And I know about being paid a pittance. Someone recently asked me to copy-edit a book of around 70k words for a fee of £50. That’s at least 28 hours’ work. Of course I said no, but I have to assume they found someone to do it, which raises the question of how qualified/experienced/competent they could be to work for that.

The end result is that yes there are lots of books out there that only perpetuate some of the grammar and spelling misconceptions talked about on this thread, and so continue to lower standards. Which is sad.

@Idontwanttotalk

I LOVE old timers disease, that's brilliant!

My nan used to get her paper at the news paper cossack.

My nanna used to go shopping at the new shopping presimps. (She'd never seen it written down I suppose.)

Saw a post yesterday on FB for a Halloween party at the village hall followed by "trickle treating"

Blutopia : before Cinnabarmoth came up with the ‘Alakefik’ link I was going to ask if your relative had ever lived in a French speaking Arabic community, and if it could be “Allah qu’il fait “ which sort of translates as que sera sera / in Allah’s hands. And I see the Alakefic word comes from being stationed in Egypt / Suez!

I'm sure Donald Duck's family called it Old Timer's. It's a word play, not a mistake.

I'm so enjoying this thread I'm trying not to wake dd up with my sniggering!

I remember teaching an English class and the task was to write a horror story.
One boy wrote about a dead body that had been cut open "with all it's interestings hanging out."😆