To think that chester draws isn't as bad as

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'chester freezer'

I'm not defending chester draws, but at least I can understand how it happened.

I've just seen someone talk about their 'chester freezer' on Facebook. There's no excuse.

Much more minor than some of these horrors, but I have seen/heard 'ran' a lot recently where 'run' should be used. As in 'Come along to the social club ran by our friendly volunteers'.

Also 'lay' where it should be 'lie'. As in 'Where do her intentions lay?'

@CrocodilesCry

I actually saw "on route" used in a professional context the other day. A government document FFS!

I've seen your where you're was supposed to be on.gov....😂

Someone text to say their child had been ruffed up by another child at school!

“Hold down the fort” is the preferred usage in the U.S. It isn’t wrong.

Our local comprehensive, who's website waxes lyrically about standards of teaching, care of students, enriching environment etc etc, had a section where it said you could ask for "advise" . I emailed them to correct them, never got a thank you (though they might have been pissed off that I mentioned about their standards of teaching etc!) They've changed it now.

I live close to where there has been a recent tragic event and somebody was complaining about the "guttural press" pestering locals

But hold down the fort doesn’t make sense. You can’t hold a fort down. You can only hold it. The fact it’s become in common usage somewhere doesn’t mean it makes more sense.

Bare with me...

FOJN snap! Oops I didn’t RTFT

What about 'ect' instead of etc. This one really gets my goat.
Midwife

"Hold down the fort" sounds OK to me but you are right, it makes no sense.
You do hold down a job though.

@ifhedoesntlikeithecanstuffit

I asked DD (12) to do something the other day and she said 'no, I can't be arsed!'

Or so I thought. When I challenged her on her rudeness, she thought it was 'can't be asked'!

Hope she hasn't said that to her teachers.....

I am a teacher and the deputy head told me off for using “can’t be arsed” in front of students. I am foreign and this was news to me and my other foreign colleague - we were 100% sure it’s “can’t be asked”.

There is also the expression “to hold down a job.”

Cross post there.

Not RTFT so this might have been mentioned but I’ve seen que for queue several times...

But 'hold the Fort' is not the same as 'hold down a job'. It's a completely different context, I think it's a military expression.

I don't like 'myself' as in you can refer that to myself' it's ME!! Argh!

@OilBaron

I've recently been looking at chests of drawers recently and because I see 'chester drawers' on here so much, I actually have to stop and think which is correct nowadays

I genuinely thought the term was 'escape goat' until earlier this year. I thought it came from an old medieval saying when people who'd committed crimes would escape from a town on a goat. So an 'escape goat' was the poor goat who had to carry a big fat criminal on its back all through the countryside. I have no idea where I got the story from but I much prefer my 'escape goat' to the correct 'scapegoat'

@OilBaron and maybe when your medieval criminal gets caught and hanged he gives up the goat (well according to my DH).

It’s ghost, love, not goat - he gives up the ghost’

"His been their in the passed" of a holiday destination. Otherwise translated as 'He's been there in the past.'

“Hold down the fort” is almost invariably used metaphorically, meaning to assume responsibility for something. I don’t know how the phrase developed from “hold the fort,” but it may have been in relation to the similar phrase “hold down a job.” That is pure speculation on my part, just musing about hold vs. hold down.

In any case, “hold down the fort” is an absolutely accepted phrase in standard English in the U.S. Language changes and evolves. That is a very different phenomenon from the majority of examples on this thread. In no country where English is the dominant language would it be correct to say or write “chester draws” or “free reign.”

@SodomyNonSapiens I've seen rest bite used several times by medical professionals and can't believe they've never seen it written properly and realised their mistake.
The one they annoys me is people who are very disappointed and write that they are 'absolutely guttered'.

One that's said a lot on a local page I am on is "anal" when they mean "and all" .

Calling sockets plugs

And saying "I need to itch myself" (for example) instead of I need to scratch

Recently saw chooner paster on fb 😂

@TheSockMonster

It is pouffe, isn’t it? Yes, that’s what the poster that you quoted said:

‘Otterman, pooffy, foot stall for ottoman, pouffe, footstool’