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.

I had a teacher friend (Y1-2) who used to complain about 'losing her plane of thought' and had a 'pacific' problem with it! Her general grammar and spelling were awful and she got me to proofread her school reports as I would pick up the mistakes she made. There were many!

My colleague refers to Covid as 'Covert-19'. and also uses 'pacific' instead of 'specific'. I really have to bite my tongue!

My ex SIL used to refer to a pouffe (when speaking ) as a 'poufay' but after reading this thread I understand it could be more common than I thought!!

Messaging a friend a few years ago and he kept referring to a 'tonghay' It took ages to realise he meant 'tongue'!!

Have also seen the 'only 2 people aloud' signs on quite a few doors in this area.

Love this thread and need to spend more time on FB Marketplace to pick up some of the gems on offer

@Mitzimccormack

Sign outside a restaurant in Loughborough. Only 2 people aloud in at any time.

Everyone else has to keep very quiet.

Is it not "moreish"? 🤔 as in makes you want to eat more, rather than Muslim food from the middle ages?

We've had this through our letter box, doesn't fill me with confidence. This estate agent regularly has typos in their Rightmove particulars, e.g. dinning room, sort after🙄

Oops cross post!

My DH often mangles words, and I can never tell if they're deliberate or not, but he told his DB that he was eating ratatwat when he came round for a meal. BIL went home and told MIL what he'd had, and she asked him don't you mean ratatouille? He was adamant it was ratatwat 😂😂😂

One friend kept referring to her biblical cord when she was pregnant.

Bone apple tea - could also be an appreciation for micropenis? - boner petit 😁

My friend told me about a poor little boy from her street who was in hospital after he contracted Melongitis 🤣

Weary / wary grates me as they have really quite different meanings but often mixed up.

Wary - suspicious, watchful, being careful as you think something bad might happen

Weary - tired

Moorish/noorish took me a while to work out. I'm still only halfway there, actually. Moreish, yes, fine, but... noorish? What is that? Gnaw-ish?

Everyone else has to keep very quiet

In pandemic times, it actually makes sense. Speaking loudly seems to generate more aerosols.

Pre-madonna and sercal (circle) written by an early years teacher

SadieContrary sercal (circle) ????!!!! OMG that is the worst yet!!

If someone writes sort after, that could be a autocorrect mistake, but pre-madonna indicates that the person doesn't have a clue

@SadieContrary

Pre-madonna and sercal (circle) written by an early years teacher

An actual qualified teacher? If so I'm shocked. If an Early Years Practitioner (or whatever they call them now) who did the sort of course I referred to upthread I'm not that surprised. Being semi-literate was no object and I wasn't supposed to comment on that when they had placements with me.

DISCLAIMER! I have worked with many good TAs, the majority are not that bad. Those who took the old NNEB qualification had very high standards as did the mature students.

To be more Pacific.

Has corvid been mentioned?

I've just seen it on another thread.

Alright, no need to crow about it.

Protifleroles

Mang tout (to rhyme with hang out)

I sometimes work with a wonderful chap who is otherwise very smart and great at what he does, but he always uses 'itinerary' when he actually means 'inventory', and I have to bite my tongue.
"Right, shall we agree on our itinerary for the exhibition, then?"
"That might be a little too soon, as the timings could easily change a lot over the next few months."
"Oh, yes, I know that - we'll work out schedules much nearer the time; but there's nothing to stop us now from gathering the itinerary and planning exactly what we need to take with us, is there?"
Gaaaahhhhh!!!!!!

Live on another thread ‘they are in on dates’ instead of inundated

Omg @BananasBananas my dh actually calls me ratatouille as a nickname sometimes! I've just told him what your dh calls it, ratatwat and now I'm thinking that probably wasnt a good idea, I can feel a nickname tweek coming on , also my dh said this morning Palimi instead of panini I corrected him toot sweet!

My brother, as a child years ago, relating some tale, said everything had ended up as 'utter chowse'. There were a lot of blank looks until we realised he meant 'chaos'.
One that really irritates me is when people say new-cu-lar instead of nuclear. I might just about accept it from an ordinary Joe, but I have actually heard science correspondents on tv pronounce it wrong. I mean, just look at the word, where are they finding 3 syllables?

I am also (perhaps not coincidentally) lurking on the Old Ladies Thread. Someone posted a link to the old Be-Ro Cookbook, which has recipes for "Girdle Cakes" and "Girdle Scones" to be cooked on a hot "girdle!"

This was printed and published. Clearly mistakes like this have plagued the language for years.

Unless there really is such a thing as a Girdle Cake?

Oh, and just thought of some more that are often mispronounced by people who should know better; grievous and heinous. So often an extra 'i' is put in making then grievious and heinious. My special cringe is griev-i-ous bodily harm.

only part way through and p!ssing myself laughing on this quiet day in the office

I didn't click on this thread for ages because I thought Chester Draws must be some reality TV person/pop star that I am too old to have heard of.

@SadieContrary

Pre-madonna and sercal (circle) written by an early years teacher

A qualified early years teacher? Who's likely to be teaching two-dimensional shapes as part of the early years curriculum? Good grief.

@TyroSaysMeow

Moorish/noorish took me a while to work out. I'm still only halfway there, actually. Moreish, yes, fine, but... noorish? What is that? Gnaw-ish?

Nourish?