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.

Ex used to say “lanlard” instead of lanyard.

Also “my up and go has up and gone”

“Hawolleen” instead of Halloween

“The chairs long” instead of chaise

it was embarrassing taking him anywhere!

'Hes' instead of his.

'We're taking hes car next time.'

Broach instead of brooch.

Thort instead of thought.

One of my pet hates I see used on MN quite a lot is "to coin a phrase" when the poster is actually quoting a well known saying.

I also get annoyed at i.e. being used instead of e.g.

@apostropheuse

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.

Genuinely that was an auto correct error, who's means who is, and who is an idiot for not proof reading? Sorry everyone!

I saw someone on a fb site the other day saying this is just a high pathetical situation.

Pronounced as sm -why- ths

The best bit is the OP’s insinuation and everyone else’s mirth and scorn, is that they seem to believe it’s somehow a reflection of intelligence and wisdom. The irony is of course even the smallest amount of intelligence and wisdom means you’ll know that the place that learns these words in your brain is the same place that knows how to take a poo. Ie pretty ducking basic. You’re not more intelligent than other people you’re just nastier, with a cumbersome ego and a tricky insecurity complex. Your judgements show a very limited underdog language and it’s history. Your judgements merely illustrate you’re a bit of a dick. Put that in your Chester freezer and suck on it 😘

@Zoflorabore ahhh ha ha the beat bit about your post where you say your ex said lanlard instead of lanyard is you seem to think it’s your ex who looks bad 🤪

Woman on FB advertising her new hairdressing page and saying she can do 'estensions'

I saw wingwing children mentioned on Facebook earlier. Any guesses?!

Hubar in what context? What was the sentence?

@therhubarbbrothers whinging?

I work in care as an admin and our accountant comes from HO for meetings with the residents regarding their service charges and uses, "pacifically" all the time.
We have many retired teachers amongst our residents plus numerous others who are terribly well educated but she's totally oblivious to the mocking looks she's given. I used to change it in the minutes but the company generally treat them in such a patronising manner and, like a politician, she never answers direct questions directly (got some retired accountants and bankers as well) so I don't bother any more. If she's going to sound like a tit it can be recorded in the minutes.

Can't believe how many people think of and have are the same word.

Nothink and somethink. Drives me mad!

An acquaintance once wrote that their shock was so strong it was ‘draw drooping’. This person is a high school English teacher. Honestly 🙄

Not sure if they were referring to droopy Chester Draws though (sounds like a Carry On film character )

@Scoobydoobydo

My friend decorates her Christmas tree with boar boars

What?

@lazylinguist

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.

Oh, my mother (always one to mangle the English Language in pursuit of sounding middleclass - or as she happily declared, following the Daily Mirror features on the subject being U or Non-U) would inform me that she was laying on the settee.

It did cross my wicked, fifteen-year-old mind whether that meant I'd have to search between the cushions for any eggs. Didn't vocalise this, though, as it would have met with a somewhat hostile reaction...

One of our politicians insists on calling Wifi “Wiffey”

@Monkeynuts18

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

Agree! I work with someone who says this ALL THE TIME and it gives me the rage 😂

Also had an English teacher who said Certaficate instead of Certificate and another who said difinitily instead of definitely

Someone said ‘generally’ instead of ‘genuinely’ to me today and I wanted to explode

An acquaintance told me that she wasn't disagreeing with me, but just playing "Devil's AGGREGATE"............

@Haworthia

I’ve seen “ball balls” but never “boar boars” *@Scoobydoobydo*

If she decorated it with "boar Balls" that would be a whole new look for Christmas

Throughout lockdown our local FB has endless comments using que instead of queue, drives me mad. In my head I always see Manuel from Fawlty Towers in there