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?!

In Scotland we say draw-era which is correct.ehen people say or write ‘draw or draws’ I want to scream!

Mixing 'isle' and 'aisle' is another.

'Ect' does my head in, as does "loosing". "Right away" is just hilarious!

Regarding 'lent' and 'borrowed', I have seen people on here state that this is an Irish grammar thing. I don't know if that's true, though.

My grandmother was diagnosed with
" a cute glaucoma". She had written it down for my dad. ( It wasn't cute)

Ah ffs bloody typos!

@BuzzShitbagBobbly I have to ask, what was Chubby cheek meant to be on a selling site? I've been trying (and failing) to work it out for ages

*Butchyrestingface

Sangwiches instead of sandwich? It's a piece!!

Dinnae befuddle the English. *

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Classic!

Thanks to Owlypants for that double act.

I did actually laugh out loud.

HelpMeDrRanj chubby cheek I'm guessing is shabby chic.

Oh yes, BurtonHouse Advocados. Love the definition.

I'm ashamed to admit, for several reasons, that back in the 70s when I was first married and we were buying our first home, we wanted a 'lovely' avocado bathroom suite - so fashionable - with matching tiles.

We spent quite some time choosing tiles in the tile shop as we were having the whole bathroom tiled and wanted to get it right.

After a large part of the morning listening to one of the joint owners of the tile shop talk about various shades and styles of advocado tiles, I could stand it no longer and, I'm ashamed to say, eventually said, 'actually, it's pronounced avocado, there's no d'; the owners of the tile shop were a sort of friend of my then husband so we knew them a little, which is why I think I said something, I suspect I would have bitten my tongue it I had been dealing with a stranger. And I was less kind in those days.

'Yes', she said, I know there's no d but it's pronounced advocado with a d sound.'

OK.

I posted something on Facebook once about me having had a bad day. My Dsil replied " Never mind , on words and up words!"

I say drawers somewhere between draw-ers and drors.
I've also heard Chester doors.

Low and behold, nieve and pouring over I've seen today, and bare with me, can't bare it are everywhere.
I see councilling recommended often on here. I'm not sure what it means but it is used when they mean counselling.

I'm also from the Nort-East.

I say "draws".

But I spell it "drawers".

Does anyone want to make something of it?

You draw a picture.

Your draw a conclusion.

You draw a needle through cloth.

But you put stuff in a drawer.

It's pronounced the same, but spelled differently.

I was once told I was so 'self depreciating '.
I know that!! Don't need to be told.

She meant self deprecating.

When I worked with the elderly aged 15, I was told of a condition called 'Institution of the Roses'

Found out later it was 'Institutional Neuroses'.

Sorry, SchadenfreudePersonified, but I do think there is an obvious 'r' at end of 'drawer'

In tact

My DH says he sawr something....not saw.... sawr.

Makes me cringe.

He doesn't spell it like that, and that almost makes it worse.
Where do you get the 'r' from ?

Institution of the Roses - I love that!

she also used the "word" yous (angry) to describe our team

I'm OK with "yous", it is a dialect word that I wouldn't use myself only because I don't come from a part of the world where it lives. It appears in some dictionaries and I think it was argued in another thread that it there is no equally concise more mainstream English alternative.

I was in a Skype meeting this morning with a woman from the north-east who used it several times rapidly in succession. She has a very nice voice and accent and I've no doubt she is as intelligent and educated as anyone else working in our highly-paid profession.

I once had the misfortune to attend one of those shite MLM candle parties, (I was being polite - god knows why). The presenter was at one point excitedly brandishing a snuffer which, she informed us breathlessly, was great for distinguishing your candles.

"Use" for "you's"....

You's is be enough in itself but repeated use of "use" made it basically unreadable.

I had an ex who used to write where instead of were. Every fucking time.
eg. "They where going to the pub last night where they where going to have a drink. There where lots of people there".
And so on and so forth...
The first couple of times I saw him write it I assumed a typo. But no.
Every fucking time.

I don't understand - he read lots of books so surely he must have read were correctly millions of times and known that it wasn't where.

I did a FB marketplace search for Chester draws...there are SO MANY people out there who think this is correct I feel there needs to be some sort of nationwide ad campaign to inform people! Get it into the school curriculum as a mandatory learning point. I did snigger at the Chester draws from Chester though.