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?!

I'm going to be flamed for this, as virtually everybody does it, but it still irritates me massively:

Febyooary

Why do you think the first 'r' is there? Are there any other words in English (other than ones derived from French) which have a 'b' followed by a silent 'r' ? Maybe there are, but that isn't the case for Febrooary!

See also Wenzday. I'm not advocating the full Wed-nez-day, but the 'd' should at least be subtly glottally acknowledged, shouldn't it?!

If anybody disagrees, we can meet at the liberry and settle it once and for all

Very unique. Unique means unique. it cannot be very unique.

People writing ‘draw’ for drawer winds me up. DH does it and I correct him every time. He also puts ‘Rs’ in words that shouldn’t have them. That really annoys me

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll I just tried pronouncing the first r in February and it was very difficult! I will be listening out for how other people say it now.

TrickyD "Very unique. Unique means unique. it cannot be very unique."

Tell that to the orange clown in the White House.

Car breaks.

"My car breaked."

No, it braked. Or possibly broke.

This thread is making me loose my breathe from laughter

110%

This thread is making me loose my breathe from laughter

Yeah the "loose" "lose" thing drives me absolutely mad too.
I really don't know why people do it but unfortunately "loose" seems to be so widespread now that people will be seeing it regularly and thinking it is the correct word so you end up with even more people using it.

I’ve just seen a ‘right off’ (car heading for the crusher).

Has weary/wary been mentioned yet? I see that a lot, mainly on American sites.

"I'm weary of giving my children peanuts" as if they are fatigued by constant legume feeding, rather than worried about allergies.

I suppose you can have a Chesterfield, so why not a Chester drawers? It has some logic.

The one that annoys me is posh lawyers who deliberately say burgle-ry instead of burglary because they think it makes them sound edgy. Okay Tarquin, we get it, you're definitely the boy-done-good up and coming gangsters' brief and not a privately educated Geography graduate with a mooting prize from your law conversion course.

Haven't rtft, but Valentimes. Urgh.

BuzzShitbagBobbly
I wish I could. 😁

Lots of posters request us to ‘bare with me’. I always have a vision of cavorting naked dancers.

Mataland instead of Matalan.
Paintent instead of patent shoes.

I tend to stop listening if anyone uses either .

Have we done ‘myself’ yet? Usually used by people on the phone at work-thinking it makes them sound clever.

‘If yourself can check over the paperwork and let myself have it back ASAP, that would be cool’.

You can have a Windsor chair, so Chester drawers has some sense.
Chester draws doesn't though.

I was wandering if you could help me?

Very unique. Unique means unique. it cannot be very unique.

I disagree with this one - we are all unique at a DNA level. Someone with two livers, an eye of each colour and a Nobel peace prize is more unique than me.

My friend pronounces "eptiome" as "epi-tome" (to rhyme with "phone"). I assume because she's only ever seen it written down. I always want to correct her but don't as that would make me a Massive Dick If it's good enough for Matt Goss ...

Also, my DH says Feb-broo-ary and I'm sure that's grounds for divorce. It's that or the way he says restaurannnnnnnn like he's French. He's not.

On a thread the other day some said they have their upside downs instead of ups and downs which made me chuckle .

Also, my DH says Feb-broo-ary and I'm sure that's grounds for divorce. It's that or the way he says restaurannnnnnnn like he's French. He's not.

I'm assuming that you don't pronounce it that way? If so, you are correct that he has perfect grounds to petition for divorce. I admire your honesty in admitting your shortcomings

I don't think he can be blamed for 'restaurant' per se, unless he's extending the 'n' beyond all measures of human decency. What annoys me is when people pronounce a French loan-word as a hybrid, such as envelope. Either say 'ON-vey-loppe' or 'EN-ve-lope' - but never 'On-ve-lope'.

Ooh my ex used to say "WedUNSday" as if to remind everyone how accurate he was being - even though that's not eve how it's spelt.

I'm a hypocrite because nucular power gets on my tits but I prefer people to say Wensday and samwidge because otherwise they just sound pretentious.

The old Tom Archer on the Archer always used to enunciate "sand-witch" and it sounded very prissy.

My DH seethes when he hears people ordering an 'ex-presso'
But then he does says Citroen as if he's French. He's not French. Makes me laugh as I say it like any normal English person would. His Dad did this with Peugeot too, had no idea what he was saying the first time.