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.

changing tack

dog eat dog , changing tack

you may just have a hearing problem OP

'Snoopy dog dog'

Also I remember thinking how horrible a teacher was at school when we read aloud and I pronounced "Persephone" as "Percy-Phone"

I read Hermione in HP as Hermy-own until I saw the film-I’d never met anyone called that before and never heard it said out loud!

What the hell!! Thanks for everyone for telling me because I've always said "off your own back" and not bat. And no one has ever corrected me. Wish they had now. Feel like a right thicko (yes I know that's not a real word)

@DarlingNikita

'Snoopy dog dog'

It's amazing isn't it 😂 Ah mum she really is the cutest. And even better it was on a call to my brother - we have a competition running as to who can meet the most famous celebrity, based on too shit long a joke to explain. I persuaded mum to call him and say we had run into Snoop at an airport. "Ooh we met that snoopy dog dog man and he sang us a song."

😍😍😍

If Shakespeare can add words/phases to the English Language l, why can't Snoop Dog?

Why is one form of culture acceptable and not another (if not for obvious reasons)?

ThatCurlyGirl, he sang her a song?

My least favourite is conversating instead of conversing, it gives me 🤬

Haha @DarlingNikita

Oh absolutely! It was probably the one with Far All Williams...

Which reminds me she also gets Will.i.am wrong every time - always calls him Will.i.Do

God I love that woman she makes me smile!

Far All Williams

I'm envious. I kind of love Snoopy Dog Dog.

A thread on here years ago. The OP was having a moan about someone being very entitled. She was complaining about her acting like a right 'pre madonna' 🤣🤣

Yes, sorry! kiosk I know it's not strictly in line with the thread, but it always made me smile.

My mum's aunt would always pronounce meringue .... well, merin G'you! With a hard G in the middle. Now that's from seeing it written but not hearing it said.

Isn't 'Snoopy Snoopy Dog Dog' a line from a Father Ted episode.

@Laiste ah we had a "fadge-ee-ta" phase in our family when I was younger too - we thought we were ever so exotic having fajitas!

@Anotherusefulname

Is it?! I'll tell mum (a Dublin lass) that she's in such good company, she will love that 😂

@thatcurlygirl

I am sure it is, can't remember which episode it is though.

that is hilairous, I like that better than 'dog eat dog' and am going to start using that instead!

I was reading a (frankly rubbish) ebook, which at referred to a grizzly scene and, later, a character being dough-eyed. I suspect the author did their own editing.

I love all of these.

I'll add a couple. "Can't be asked." No, the phrase is actually "can't be arsed", although I can see how people might sometimes mishear it

Annihilate is one my DH always gets wrong. He says a-nill- hill-ate. If he tries to pronounce annihilist it comes out as "a nill hill ist." Drives me up the wall.

My MIL used to pronounce Thailand as Thigh Land!! That drove me up the wall too.

My DS read Hermione as Her-Moin until I told him to look more carefully.

I too thought Persephone was Percy-phone. I still say it that way sometimes, cos it pleases me to make a pretentious name sound silly. I remember reading about the antique instrument called a virginal and thinking it was pronounced "vir-JINE-al" (ie like vaginal) and being so relieved when the teacher said it first, as I was about to ask a question and say in wrongly!

Before I commenced my philosopy degree, Oxford University sent me a reading list, which included some works by Descartes. I was sure he must be another Greek philosopher like Socrates and was again very pleased that I heard someone else say his name in the first week there before I made a total pranny of myself.

Mispronounced words due to only reading them is a little different to malapropisms that would be put right with a little thought as to meaning and origin though.

I'm, totally perplexed by "another thing/think coming" - will have to look into it later on when I have some time. I've always thought it was "thing" and it makes more sense to me than "think" but this thread has made me doubt myself....

When I was a child I used to say 'The Abdominal Snowman'!

When I read lambs 'gambolling' in a field I assumed it must be pronounced 'jambolling' because, you know, it couldn't be 'gambling'

'If you think..., you've got another think coming'. That is, if you think something (that the other person considers wrong or presumptuous), you're going to have to think again. The 'think' is non-standard, grammatically speaking - presumably for emphasis -, but that's still the phrase (and anyway, 'think' does get used as a noun, in phrases such as 'I'll have to have a think about that and get back to you').

I just wrote a lengthy message name checking everyone who had commented on my question, but I lost the lot. Suffice to say, thank you I think you cracked it, to the two posters with suggestions!

Another thing - not as amusing as some of these - is people getting 'overly' and 'overtly' mixed up, or 'adverse' and 'averse' (I see 'I'm not adverse to...' quite a lot on here).