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!

Just because lots of people say something, that doesn't mean it's right. It's 'think'.

I have ALWAYS thought it was thing and that made sense to me, not that I gave it much thought.

Me too

If you think it is ‘thing’ you have another ‘think’ coming!

It is saying your ‘think’ isn’t good enough, or you’re going to get a shock so think again.

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Not sure if this is the right place (don't care if it's not 😂) but personally it boils my piss when people use 'ect' instead of 'etc' for etcetera. When they use of instead of have (why, in the name of chuff, would you abbreviate 'of' to 've'? It's have FFS). Your/you're. A moo point! Wtf? Pacific instead of specific. The list goes on and on. I need to stop thinking about it because my blood pressure is rising! I blame my mother - she would ridicule us for making spelling and grammatical errors or mispronouncing words. Mind you, she swore blind that 'twat' should be pronounced 'twot' 🤷

Tender hooks does it for me....... Its TENTERHOOK!!!!!!!

But... my family always said another thing coming.

Always!

Another think seems so wrong! Just wrong, I tell you!

Aaarrrgghhh.

Okay, this has ruined my life (obviously it hasn't - but I'm shocked). I'm a well educated individual. I have an A Level in English, an undergraduate degree, and I'm currently working as a professional writer and proofreader, and I have been saying "another thing coming" my entire life. Oh wow.

Seen as instead of seeing as. Why instead of while (looking after the baby why my sister is at work.. etc). There are some things that just make no sense to me!

40 yo Scot here. Voracious reader from childhood. It's always been "another thinG coming" round my neck of the woods. Not a recent thinK/G.

50yr old Scot here, also a voracious reader from childhood. It's always been 'another think coming'. I think I've known that from being a young reader, probably from Enid Blyton, the 'Little Women' series or similar novels. It's an old-fashioned phrase, but completely charming and should never be savaged the ignorant.

Thing for me

Look, I'm not saying you can't say 'thing'. But you can't claim it's correct when it just isn't. Be wrong, but own your wrongness!

I'm also Scottish by the way, so 'thing' isn't a Scottish regional variation. Might be more common in some parts of Scotland than others.

A moo point!

Tbf, I’ve only ever heard “moo point” being used with a nod to Friends.

It’s like a cow’s opinion, it’s moo.

Makes total Joey sense...

I agree @GlasshouseStoneThrower

People seem to be arguing the fact as if it's an opinion or a choice.

The saying is 'think coming' whether you grew up hearing it that way or not.

If you want a new phrase involving 'thing coming' then invent a new one that makes a joke, or at least makes some sense!

112 year old here, voracious reader, once went to Scotland, read Ulysses (Joyce, not Homer) at about 3 years old and it’s THINK!

Interesting articles says it’s “think”.

If that's what you think (the first think) then you need to think again (have another think (coming)).

So for people who think that it's another thing coming, what was the first thing?

There is no first thing as it's a think!

I remember having a similar discussion with a group of friends when I was a teenager and had said ...cut off her nose to spite her face. They all said I had got it wrong and it should have been ...cut off her nose DESPITE her face.

I still don't know who is right....

It's to spite.

Meaning doing something that would cause more harm to you.

Despite makes no sense because wouldn't it need to be followed by an explanation?

Despite your face-doing what??

To quote the Chas and Dave song

And if ya think I don't mean what I say and I'm only bluffing
You've got another think coming I'm telling ya that for nothing
Oh darlin, there ain't no pleasing you.

In the song, his partner is treating him badly and he is saying if you think you can get away with treating me like this for much longer, you can think again.

YABU because there is genuine debate about this one.

You might find this article a good read: www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/nov/18/mind-your-language-another-think

Whereas, there are better examples of mis-heard and mis-taken phrases that are more irritating and used more frequently. e.g. to be pacific / to be specific and 'chester draws' as a PP poster said

I remember having a similar discussion with a group of friends when I was a teenager and had said ...cut off her nose to spite her face. They all said I had got it wrong and it should have been ...cut off her nose DESPITE her face

You were right, of course. They were mis-hearing, like the people who think it's 'thing' rather than 'think'.

Some suggestion on the phrase's (very old) origins here --
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_off_the_nose_to_spite_the_face

I think the change of the phrase from ‘think’ to ‘thing’ ( or the mishearing) may stem from the fact it sounds uncomfortable and grammatically incorrect to say the last think in the sentence and really it should be ‘thought!’ To make it sound more palatable some folk probably just heard or used ‘thing’.

I’m going to make you fuckers wear this tee shirt until you learn!

“I think the change of the phrase from ‘think’ to ‘thing’ ( or the mishearing) may stem from the fact it sounds uncomfortable and grammatically incorrect to say the last think in the sentence and really it should be ‘thought!’ To make it sound more palatable some folk probably just heard or used ‘thing’.”

I don’t think grammar looms large in the minds of those who adopt ‘thing’. I think it became popular when people started to read less. And pick up phrases from mishearing them rather than reading them.

‘Despite your face ‘ ‘rest bite ‘ and ‘doggy fog’ and Chester Draws being prime examples . No one saw those written down like that before saying it.