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.

So when I googled "irregardless" out of curiosity, all of the numerous sites which claim that it is actually a word are wrong?

The general opinion seems to be that it has been a word for a very long time, but it is mostly used erroneously.

I’m just amazed that anyone in the normal course of life ever has to say “anihilist”.......

My mum and grandmother used to pronounce Corfu as Cor-phew. I think it was probably either correct RP or a joke from something like the Goon Show but it always made me smile.

But it’s definitely “another think....”

“If you think you’re borrowing the car tonight you’ve got another think coming.........”

Oh my, my new favourites are in no particular order.

Dolphin nose potatoes and a jester of good will, just brilliant.

I do have to warn you though Op that there may be reaper cushions for this thread, once the people who say we should not care a less about such things.

#turn up.

Jester of goodwill has made my day. Like something Terry Pratchett would have thought up.

Reaper cushions!

I couldn't believe howignorantthe students were. Not stupid - just ignorant.

They read nothing and had little interest in anything except social media. The sort of general knowledge that people pick up by osmosis when they read widely was totally absent.

I very much agree with this. Not because I'm a university lecturer like the PP (sorry, forgot to copy your name) but from watching quizzes on the television

There's a vast amount of people who find it ridiculous that they should know about something that happened before they were born, such as the battle of Hastings, for example. Often smugly put as, "Before my time"; subtext: "The rest of you are crumbly coffin dodgers". Well, 1066 was before my time too.

Or "I'm doing a degree in English Literature but I haven't been taught eg the Romantic Poets yet" about something that's basic general knowledge.

Going back to the original point of the thread though, I got caught out by knowing there was a word spelled "awry" and a word pronounced "uh-rye" but not realising they were the same.
I was 16 when I read out "or-eee" in class and was left in no doubt as to my mistake.

In this doggy dog world a lot of people "woof" down their food. When more dogs ate dogs, people "wolfed" down food.

@hughwhatascorcher

What is wrong with irregardless?

The 'ir' means 'not'.

So putting the 2 together you've got 'not without regard to'.

Therefore, ignoring the fact the word doesn't exist, if you said "irregardless of what Sarah thinks" you're actually saying "with regard to what Sarah thinks".

It's sort of a double-negative, I guess.

I’m just amazed that anyone in the normal course of life ever has to say “anihilist”

We don't. He was talking to DD2 (now 20) about a computer game they had both played. Something along the lines of Call of Duty (though probably not that one, I am not a gamer). Annihilate and annihilist came into the conversation and he just couldn't get it, even though DD did. I get that it isn't a common or easy word though, not to spell or to pronounce.

Both of those things drive me nuts lol

Using "lol" instead of a full stop drives me nuts, especially since what's been written is rarely worthy of a half smile, let alone laughing out loud.

I get irritated by people who don't know the word "whose" and instead write "who's". No idea what they think the apostrophe and the "s" indicate.

My Nan lost her housekey once, I asked her where she thought it might be - she was sure it was in one of the departments in her handbag

When my son was about 14/15, quite some time ago now, he wrote a story in his English class in which one of the characters was 'hanged'.

His English teacher pulled him up in front of the whole class and made fun of him for writing hanged, because according to this man, who I assume had/has a degree in English people are 'hung'; no doubt on small hooks like pictures on a wall.

No a lot of hope for our school pupils when the people teaching them don't have basic English skills.

*That should be not a lot of hope, and there should be a comma after has a degree in English.

DH consistently says undermime rather than undermine, or just makes me think of a really half arsed mime artist!

Sympathy for that; I remember reading somewhere "Pictures are hung; people are hanged" and it stuck with me since.

Surprised not to yet have seen "would of". It's the existence of this that debunks the "language evolves" brigade. "Would of" isn't the English language evolving, it's just pure ignorance. It needs correcting wherever it's found, not embracing.

It's definitely another think, but I'm sure I read somewhere that another thing is now more commonly used in the UK. I blame Judas Priest. Also it feels an odd structural use of think (I realise how/why it works), so people find thing more comfortable.

The 'whose' thing - guessing it's people who have learned that apostrophe + s signals possession and extrapolate that to 'who' (and will have also seen 'who's' written in other contexts and misremember). And if you follow that line of thought, it actually seems fairly logical to write 'Who's is it? - It's Kate's'.

In primary school I once wrote 'Who's to stop me?' (as in, who's going to stop me?) in a story/dialogue, and the teacher corrected it to 'whose'. Never forgotten that.

Moo point. Because a cow's opinion counts for nothing!!

I don't mind 'dull as dish water' tbh, as it at least makes sense. Dish water is definitely dull (although possibly a bit less so than ditch water).

The others really annoy me though.

@CatteStreet I see what you are saying but to me it just feels wrong to use "think" in that way - like when people say "I'm not doing anythink wrong".

I'd want to say "You've got another thought coming", or "you'll have to think again". It's not a great phrase really. Any idea who coined it?

Remembered another one, on local Facebook page, woman talking about financial problems and not being able to "make hens meat"

Just left this thread to check FB and saw a pickit fence advertised on a local group 😁.

'I could care less' really winds me up.