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.

@NameChange2PostThis

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

The poster you are quoting does not need correcting, she (I’m guessing) said her DH says it that way.

07Supermarketworker06

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.

Who's website should be whose website.

People mix up who's and whose or it's and its all the time.

@lazylinguist

I always like 'Wallah!" As in a description of a house "You walk into the living room and... wallah! A beautiful inglenook fireplace".

Late to the party but this is one of my favourites! 😂

@SirGawain oh wow you learn something new everyday. I thought it was off my own back! 😱

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

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@Notverybright hahaha I was quoting myself saying that to my DH

@Amymone

Calling sockets plugs

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

I pull my husband up on itch for scratch all the time. He won't have it. Unless he wants me to scratch his back. He manages just fine then.

330-odd contributions and nobody's been called a "pre-Madonna" yet?

@lazylinguist

People referring to the the ground as 'the floor'.

I'm not so sure about this one. The OED says that in British English, 'ground' can mean the floor of a building. And you can definitely refer to the ocean floor or the floor of a cave. And I think it's pretty common to use phrases with 'floor' which could mean indoors or outdoors 'roll on the floor laughing' etc.

No no no no no.

You couldn't "roll on the floor laughing" if you were outside. It would have to be "roll on the ground."

Sat for sitting annoys me as well, as in "he was sat down over there" instead of "sitting down over there".

My pet hate is when people say something like “ Can I lend some money” instead of “borrow”.
Do some people go to school but not actually learn anything?

Oh oh oh!

When people say 'I could care less'

It's COULDN'T. As in you care so very little that it is utterly impossible to care any less.

By saying 'could' you're saying you do care!

This is the hill I will die on.

My friends daughter has Asburgers

Part of the reason is that 50 years ago, no one would have dared to write anything for public consumption that hadn't been through at least a secretary.

I once, very politely explained to a degree educated secretary (sorry, executive assistant) who was responsible for rounding up the monthly office stationery orders, but always emailed asking about stationary that the easy way to remember the correct spelling was "E" for envelopes. She merrily said "really? I prefer spelling it my way"
Clearly preferred letting everybody think she was thick/uneducated/unprofessional & continued to do it. I just set up my outlook to junk her regular stationary reminders and ordered my own stationery after that.

I hate "stepping foot" when they mean "setting foot", e.g. "he had only just stepped foot in the house when ..."

Also "his" and "he's" getting mixed up, e.g. "His going to he's house". The don't say "Her is going to she's house" so why do they think it's different for males?

@xTinkerhellx
Merriam-Webster has an interesting (and witty) entry for the synonyms could/couldn't care less.
The OED/Cambridge and Collins' entries aren't quite so scathing but confirm the same thing.

The pre-Madonnas are arguing about holding the fort.

My partner says spectacle instead of sceptical, it always makes me chuckle.

@ChanklyBore

On the recent thread about Pontin’s I clicked through and read some of the Pontin’s reviews on trip advisor.

The word chalet was deeply underrepresented amongst a forest of shalleys, shaleys, chaleys, shallys, shallies and a shalee.

My hoity toity colleague would say that explains a lot.

@newtb

And then the men of a certain age with 'prostrate' problems.

Either way, something's still not getting up...

Trickle treat

Not trick or treat

Trickle treat

Here here!

Another thing coming
Flaming yawn

People who say “announciate” or “pronounciation”. Oh the irony!

@MrsKoala

But "hold down the fort" is right?

No it isn’t. It’s used lots in American things but it’s wrong. You hold the fort, like holding it during a siege. It doesn’t need tethering down in case it blows away.

definition of hold the fort

That's think @MrsKoala and makes sense and made me think it over. But then I'm intrigued by the Merriam Webster definition I posted earlier. Come to think of it I'm sure I've only ever said "hold the fort"

Looking at your post again, and the fact that my definition is from an American dictionary, do Americans and British people use two different phrases?

Hmm now I'm thinking about "hold down a job" or is that something totally different?