I’ve just heard

[TheSheepofWallSt]

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?!

Mike and I's relationship

This sort of thing actual isn't that new.

I remember where I worked in the mid 70s there was a young woman, secretary to one of the directors in the company, who every single day, at lunch time, would phone through to my department and say, 'if there are any calls for John and I we'll be out until 2 o'clock'; every single day, always the same phrase.

Oh, the temptation to correct her, although I never did.

She liked to make out that she was frightful well educated and somehow managed to weave into almost any conversation that she had been educated at the Sorbonne; pity her wonderful education hadn't stretched to a better grasp of English grammar. And yes, she was English.

pinkytheunicorn
"I read 'chicken pots' today confused"

That could be autocorrect.

One of my Nigerian friends calls Bonfire night, burn fire night, which I quite like.

Well this thread will learn them won't it

Have to admit to corrections slipping out before I’ve even realised I’ve spoken! . I totally hate lickle, hospikal etc, makes me irrationally raging!

Do correct postings on fb pages from organisations / companies that claim to be professional however, feel it lowers their professionalism to not spell and grammar check posts before hitting the post / send button!

I'm not sure that people are saying (or not always, anyway)-
'chester drawers'
I think people are possibly saying 'chest o' drawers' - which is archaic, but not grammatically incorrect. Contracting 'of' to o' isn't used in print anymore, just like contracting 'over' to o'er isn't, but they were both shortened like that until recently- you can sea it older pieces of poetry also still in 'Portuguese man o' war', etc.

We don't realize that's what's being said- because that contraction is archaic in written english- but I think spoken english tends to retain archaic forms longer than written english- for example- in some parts of Yorkshire, people still use 'thee' and 'thy' ,(instead of 'you' and 'your')- these are dialect differences -but they are also perfectly grammatically correct but just generally considered archaic, in a lot of places, and in everyday written english and print.

I think this is actually what the alleged and supposedly wrong , 'chester drawers' is- it's actually 'chest o' drawers' which is old fashioned, but not incorrect, and that if people write it 'chester drawers' , they're just making a spelling mistake- by writing it phonetically, because they don't quite realize what they are actually saying.

So, basically, I think it might be ok, tbh.

trinklets

chimley

'sea'- 'see'

Using adjectives as nouns, e.g. "You can't have too much happy." "Happy what? Oh, you mean happiness?" Seems to have invaded from the States but I'm seeing it more and more here.

samwidge

expresso

Annoying

Chester Draws - idiotic.

BUT if you google Chester Draws, Google doesn't ask 'Did you mean Chest of Drawers'? It just gives you the results and even has links from reputable furniture emporiums labelled Chester Draws. It's like so many people are THIS stupid, that everyone has gone - oh alright then, Chester Draws.

'eyes like a fork'

I'm pinching this one!

I see loads of basic spelling errors here on Mumsnet....one that really grates is 'past away' instead of 'passed away' when someone dies...
My DH is also guilty of dinning room and it takes all my willpower not to correct him.
On Facebook 'delete if not aloud' appears several times a day.

Contracting 'of' to o' isn't used in print anymore

I beg to differ!

I present to you. . . . . < drumroll>

Fillet o' Fish!

One that made me chuckle was when someone I knew used to call a paddock a padlock!

I remember an entire thread on here where a poster was ranting about her "right away". Made me twitch.

To be fair, nobody mentioned it until she had put it in about three posts and then people must have realised it wasn't some sort of crazy autocorrect.

Never did find out whether it actually was her "right away" or not...

"Because I'm intelligent and so clever people put me on a pedastool" (from a relation, she uses this gem on FB on a daily basis)

Chunahamwitch - From FB (Tuna Sandwich)

I hate when people use "Alter" when they mean "Altar" and "whitch, which, wich, witsh", when they mean witch (FB witch groups)

I suspect that the authors of the above all earn much more than me!

SchadenfreudePersonified

Fillet o' Fish!

Someone on another MN thread said they were Blindsighted by something that had happened.

@SchadenfreudePersonified
I can’t see that [fork] one posted. I will admit I only scanned through through quickly. What’s it supposed to be?

I agree that unless written down as chester drawers, it's probably their accent. I'm northern and you would probably think i was saying "Chester drawers" or "chest a drawers" but I wouldn't write it like that!

Lots of my mancunian family say "bokkle", "Kekkle" etc and its drives me mad because I think it makes them sound thick - but it's a regional thing and mainly said tongue in cheek - they know it's not grammatically correct and again, they wouldn't write it like that!

I used to go past a shop near where I used to work that proudly had a sign declaring they sold ‘chaster drow’

I see a lot of people using foot stalls instead of footstools on EBay too.

So many people have trouble spelling 'doesn't', dosent seems to be popular, especially on here.

When I was at university, one of the German lecturers had his name and then 'Dozent' underneath - meaning 'lecturer' in German. It was far funnier than ever it should have been when somebody amended it so that it said:

John Smith
Dozent
"Oh yes he does!"

He found it hilarious and left it unchanged until the head of department eventually insisted he change it back.

Saw an advert for a subtle grey pony once. (Should have been dapple grey). Didn't realise ponies came in colour chart shades!

The one that leaves me scratching my head most of all is people writing "on except a bowl" when they clearly mean 'unacceptable'. Just why?!?!?!

Google it (using the speech marks) if you don't believe me.

Lol I saw that blindsighted thread earlier today too....Lost count of the number of times ive seen 'restbite'.
Also people mixing up lent and borrowed...ffs its really not difficult.

My son once sent his dad a father's day card wishing him a happy farters day ! Quite appropriate really !