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I’ve just heard

446 replies

TheSheepofWallSt · 22/01/2020 11:30

CHESTER DRAWERS in the wild!

From a person I did not expect to hear it from...

WIBU to have thought that it was a myth?!

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Sparklfairy · 22/01/2020 11:33

I see it depressingly often. Although it's mostly 'draws'. I have to sit on my hands Grin

It's funny when you see someone with overall very good spelling and grammar come out with stuff like this. I know someone that always writes 'surly' instead of surely. Every time. I bite my tongue when they ridicule others for daft mistakes Wink

OhMeows · 22/01/2020 11:34

I saw a recliner chair advertised on Fb marketplace as a "lady boy" recently.

LuckyLuckyWoman · 22/01/2020 11:35

Hearing it could be their accent.

I'm from Yorkshire and it sounds like chester drawers when I say it, but wouldn't write it that way.

PumpkinP · 22/01/2020 11:36

I see it on fb quite often

Marcipex · 22/01/2020 11:37

I’ve heard some one insist the name Nevaeh is a myth, but I know a girl called this.
And you might enjoy a small ad that I had to read several times: ‘ For sale, dark red dafferder bridesmaid dress. ‘

Pop2017 · 22/01/2020 11:40

I see this on social media all the time, on selling sites mainly. A friend of mine was recently looking for a ‘Chester draws’ on a selling page.. I’m not usually one to correct people, I’m not an a**hole but I was itching to comment on her post to correct her 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Sometimes I see ‘chest of draws’ too which annoys me just as much. 🤣

AryaStarkWolf · 22/01/2020 11:43

That took far too long to understand what the hell you were talking about Grin

Bezalelle · 22/01/2020 11:44

I defiantly haven't seen that pacific word being used.

JingleAndTonic · 22/01/2020 11:46

I see chest of draws all the time, never seen chester drawers! I have a friend on Facebook who posts food photos and she frequently has spag bowl, gives me the rage.

Joans3rddaughter · 22/01/2020 11:55

Nearly as bad as "skelington" and "nucular war"

katseyes7 · 22/01/2020 11:55

l used to work with a woman who fancied herself as the boss's PA (because she was learning shorthand and took minutes at meetings) even though she was basically just a typist who sat at the desk opposite me. (We shared an office but l did a different job)
She proudly announced to our office, in the presence of said boss, that she was going to 'replendish' the stationery cupboard.
l couldn't look at him.

katseyes7 · 22/01/2020 11:56

Joans3rddaughter 'Nucular' drives me mad. Especially when used by newsreaders on tv.
'Secketry' is another one. Can't they see how these words are spelled?

catzrulz · 22/01/2020 11:58

It is bad enough written down, but to hear someone say it (accent depending) is bad.
I remember seeing someone I knew would never say it had written it on a for sale site, so I'm hoping it is usually down to auto correct.

BuzzShitbagBobbly · 22/01/2020 12:05

I'm on a FB page where things like this are shared, it's very funny.

Recent examples include
Waldrobe
Crashed walwat
Otterman
Dr Martians
Baby Cher
Chay Longe
Chubby Cheek

It goes on....

AllideasAndNoAction · 22/01/2020 12:07

I bet they’ve got a dinning table as well.

Could have been worse, could have been a Chester draws.

Bowerbird5 · 22/01/2020 12:09

Nevaeh is not a myth I have known several. One is about 18. I wasn't keen at first but the name has grown on me mainly because all the girls I have known have been sweet children.

Somanysocks · 22/01/2020 12:09

I like to say skellington on purpose.

Thesearmsofmine · 22/01/2020 12:10

Did they have an accent? As above in Yorkshire it can sound like chester drawers when said out loud.

Bowerbird5 · 22/01/2020 12:11

I've seen dinning table in the newspaper along with quite a few other mistakes. You would think with spell check that journalists would proof read their work.

CatInTheDaytime · 22/01/2020 12:12

Yes I heard a BBC reporter say "nucular power" recently. Don't they have someone to tell them how to read/pronounce things properly?

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 22/01/2020 12:12

I've seen a thread on mn where someone needed a restbite.

Somanysocks · 22/01/2020 12:14

Ect. What do people actually think it means, it is etc.. ETC.

inwood · 22/01/2020 12:17

Dont get me started.

The latest one foor me is the dropping of 'ing'. On of my kids is doing and I know she's copying her bloody teacher.

Swimmin
Walkin
Singin
Rainin
Eatin
Playin

Ad infinitum.

stophuggingme · 22/01/2020 12:19

Fooming
Hostpital
Skelington
Burt
Lickle

scarbados · 22/01/2020 12:21

One of our admin team was ordering desks and asked in an email if she should get extra pedalstools to go under the work surfaces.