This is the worst thing I’ve seen in a long time

[noblegiraffe]

Worse than Brexit. How can we have fallen so low? ‘Thing’ doesn’t make any sense!

It's THINK. Always has been always will be. Thing is just wrong.

But actually as always said, language evolves and now both are acceptable.

Only if you want to use thing and sound like a dick...

Maybe the difference is regional? It's thing in my opinion. As in something different is coming. How can you have a 'think' coming? Surely it would be a thought if anything?!

I don't know what to thing about that

If it was think, sonce think is a verb, wouldn't it be more grammatically correct to use thought?

No, think isn't just a verb. See, for example, "I'll have to have a think about that".

I grew up in London in the fifties. My dear mother was always telling me that 'I had another think coming', as in, 'If you think I'm buying you that, you've got another think coming'.

She would 'turn in her grave' if she saw this thread.

Ive always said ‘thing’ too (44) 🤦🏻‍♀️

Person B: You've got another thing coming. Meaning: Another thing (eg. food shortages) is going to come along and change your mind!

Surely for this to be correct it would have to be 'you've got a thing coming'. How can it be 'another' thing when there is no first thing for it to be in addition to?

This is why I find 'thing' nonsensical. The second part of the phrase yields no connection with the first.

My DH says his parents said thing because they were Londoners with no K in their alphabet.

He says it correctly now.

It's "think". The same as saying "you can think again if you think X is going to happen".

Glasshouse I loved your previous post, 'another think' was always used in a slightly threatening but comical way, which is totally missing if 'thing' is used.

For those asking what the thing is that is coming, well in my home growing up the 'thing' was usually a grounding.

"If you think you are going out looking like that baguette then you have another thing coming."

In other people's houses the 'thing' was a clip or, worse, a job.

Londoners with no K in their alphabet What? You know nuffink.

I'd you want to use hackneyed phrases you can use either. But why would you?

Annuver Londoner here, well aware of the 'K' in my alphabet.

Did he mix us up with Essex gel?

"If you think you are going out looking like that baguette then you have another thing coming."

Makes no sense though.

What was the first "thing"?

@Ponoka7

.. doggy dog world, comes from Snoop Dog. It sums up life for many black, poor, Americans (and no doubt other nations)

Heaven forbid that we recognise any culture/sayings/language that doesn't spring from white, at least MC men

stop the internet - we have a winner!

cack-handed, entirely bonkers virtue signalling, with extra snark.

beautiful.

The first thing is the assumption that I'd be allowed out dressed for a club and the second thing was being grounded.

It is definitely "you have another thing coming"

No it really isn't. Maybe look at the Cambridge Dictionary web page: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/have-another-think-coming

Or the Collins Dictionary web page:
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/youve-got-another-think-coming

"The first thing is the assumption..."

But there is no first thing in your sentence-there's a think & then a thing.

That's why it makes no sense.

I imagine the 'think' variation has declined in popularity due to the unwieldy glottal stop.

In fact, neither is the perfect epigram and it's also just an indirect way of saying 'I disagree', so ideally both would die a death.

Wtf?
First thing, the assumption.
Second thing, the disappointment.

I will accept that I have it wrong but I won't accept that 'thing' is without logic ... as I have heard it being used.

Besides, 'having a think coming' sounds affected.

"Besides, 'having a think coming' sounds affected."

Well it is an old phrase!

Snoop Dogg, sometimes aka Snoop Doggy Dogg, wrote Doggy Dogg World playing on the phrase "dog-eat-dog world" because it sounds like "Doggy Dogg". It's "dog-eat-dog-world" that describes life for poor people or in gang culture. Not "doggy dog world" because that on its own makes no sense (unless it just means people have a lot of dogs).

Although the fact that song exists probably leads a lot of people to think the original phrase is doggy dog world, which is pretty reasonable really.