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.

Another one people have problems with is lie vs lay. I can see why it's confusing, because although they are two separate verbs, the past tense of 'lie' is the same as the present tense and infinitive of 'lay'! I often hear people say things like "I'm going to lay down on the sofa" or "When he's tired, he just lays down", or "I like to have a lay-in at the weekend", instead of lie down, lies down and a lie-in.

Obeast

@KerbsideViolet

My friend once asked me how to spell ordepens as in "it all depends"

My colleague asked me how to spell ADHD

That made me laugh out loud You should have asked her if she could spell IQ

@Monkeynuts18

The worst one is ‘Pacific’ to mean ‘specific’.

....I was once asked if I could be 'pacific' ..said no sorry I couldnt, or Atlantic for that matter...

Have you seen this from Twitter? Seems to have originated with a Guardian journalist.

“Older people - do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat? Genuinely curious."

Ooh, dh met someone once, who said without a hint of irony, 'watch out for the elephant of surprise'- his response, 'yeah, you need to watch out for that'.

"Chester draws".

But why? Why does Chester draw?

chest of drawers.
When I say it I say chest of drawers, but many will say it as chest o' draws.
My accent isn't rhotic, but I say drawer asd draw-uh

as not asd

OMG. My other half says 'obeast' as well. She also says "All sweetness and life", and many other gems.

Thank you (verb) = “Thank you for your help last week”. If you can put I/he/she/they in front of it and it still makes sense then this is probably the version to use.

Thankyou (noun) = “I would like to give a big thankyou to all the people who helped last week”. There will generally be an ‘a’ floating around somewhere before it.

Or at least that’s how I always use them!

According to the dictionary it's still 'thank you', not 'thankyou' when it's a noun though.

Sosig. 😔

@TrixieMixie

Have you seen this from Twitter? Seems to have originated with a Guardian journalist.

“Older people - do you realise that ending a sentence with a full stop comes across as sort of abrupt and unfriendly to younger people in an email/chat? Genuinely curious."

I think they meant a message

@Scissor

Round where live you can sit on a puffey to look at a muriel.

When I was a child me and my cousins could visit our grandparents and sit on their pouffe, they pronounced it poof.

@user1498572889

Sosig. 😔

We have a mini white board on the fridge where the DC can write things they'd like added to the next online food shop. Its had 'korn sosij roles' on there for so long it won't rub off. DS1, who wrote it, knows full well its 'quorn sausage rolls' but he has an odd sense of humour

@lazylinguist

Just checked. OED says it can be either an exclamation or a noun (not an adjective), but either way it's two separate words, no hyphen.

Thank you.

Orderments. Instead of ornaments....

I follow rate my plate on Facebook a lot of people write Sosig I thought it was some kind of in joke?

@lazylinguist

According to the dictionary it's still 'thank you', not 'thankyou' when it's a noun though.

How interesting! The Collins dictionary is in the thankyou or thank-you camp, but I’ve googled and can see that some do indeed list ‘thank you” as a noun.

I’ve just found this article www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/is-it-thank-you-thankyou-or-thank-you/ which explains its evolution.

DD’s teacher used to start nearly every letter with “Thankyou to all the parents who XYZ last week”, with the exception of one occasion on which she wanted to give “a HUGE thank you to everyone who XYZ”. The irony.

I think the takeaway from this is, if in doubt, it is safest to stick with ‘thank you’ for everything!

I’ve just found this article www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/is-it-thank-you-thankyou-or-thank-you/ which explains its evolution.

Did you find it, perchance, on this thread?

Supposubly

@Lweji

I’ve just found this article www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/is-it-thank-you-thankyou-or-thank-you/ which explains its evolution.

Did you find it, perchance, on this thread?

No, I may have skipped a few pages

Off to catch up...

Well I've just seen a right classic, The Sun newspaper writing a story on Samantha Morton, only with an error on the first paragraph where they called her 'Samantha Moron' opps😳😂

Someone on my Facebook said she doesn't need to send her kids back to school as she's been pretty good at learning then from home.