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.

A young staff member 'my new boyfriend loves me so much - he puts me on a pedal stool'.

Stood behind someone at the railway ticket office once who was asking for a ticket to St Pancreas

St Pancreas and Convent Garden

@MikeUniformMike

St Pancreas and Convent Garden

I have to physically stop myself saying St Pancreas all the time

St Pancras just doesn't seem right!

Not read the whole thread so may have already come up but you should check out the

Boneappletea subreddit on reddit

It’s full of these mistakes

My London Town born within the sound of bow bells etc boss says St Pancreas and says all true Londoners do. It's like a rolled up trouser leg sign apparently.
She gets ever so sweary when young whippersnappers say "erm, it's not called that".

@tiredanddangerous, I recon its spelt reckon! Oops

@tiredanddangerous, I recon its spelt reckon! Oops

Twice apparently 🙄

@ScorpioSphinxInACalicoDress

My London Town born within the sound of bow bells etc boss says St Pancreas and says all true Londoners do. It's like a rolled up trouser leg sign apparently. She gets ever so sweary when young whippersnappers say "erm, it's not called that".

This makes me feel better! I am indeed a born and bred East Londoner.

I'm glad we're right and you're all wrong

In the town I live in, there is a new business. It's called 'Straight My Teeth'. It makes me cringe every time I go by it. 🤦‍♀️

www.straightmyteeth.com/about-us/

My dad is also a London cockney and he’s never said St Pancreas. Neither have I, as a Londoner also (tho not a cockney) and none of my Londoner friends have said it to me. My ExH works there and the word has been said many times over the years to me and I’ve not heard a Londoner say St Pancreas.

On a local selling page, someone is giving away “teddy alderments”.

Can't believe this thread is nearly full and no-one has mentioned "it's a mind field" yet...

Also (although I guess this could be a local thing.. brufen or (worse) ibrufen instead of ibuprofen.

@margotsdevil

Can't believe this thread is nearly full and no-one has mentioned "it's a mind field" yet...

Also (although I guess this could be a local thing.. brufen or (worse) ibrufen instead of ibuprofen.

Brufen was the brand of Ibuprofen that was most commonly prescribed in the 1980s. Like people would/do say Disprin, Valium, Heroin, Calpol, Ventolin, Piriton or Prozac.

@MitziK that makes a lot of sense - now that I think of it, it's one used by a certain age group - all older than me, I can't remember that at all!

A new one for me which I see on here a lot is when people do this weird thing with tenses, along the lines of “the dog needed walked” “the baby needs fed”.

What???????

Yeah, like the “Needs Gone” comment on for sale adverts too! Is it a Scottish thing?

@MitziK Thank you!! I have never understood why people said Brufen

[quote margotsdevil]@MitziK that makes a lot of sense - now that I think of it, it's one used by a certain age group - all older than me, I can't remember that at all! [/quote]
I only remember them because the hospital had told my mother when I was five that the Smartest Children were able to rattle off their name, date of birth, allergies and current medication/dose and all previous medications. Brufen were big, very round and had a bright, Barbie pink, sugar coating.

Know this is off-topic, but on the subject of medication, does anyone know why in the US paracetamol is known as acetaminophen??

I used to work at a vets, and we would often get people trying to book to have their pet “spaded”. It always used to conjure up such an image in my mind.

I also saw “damn squid” earlier for “damp squib” - that amused me all afternoon.

I've heard that too, AngeloMysterioso. The bins need emptied. The bananas need eating. At first I thought it was to avoid saying 'you need to do X' because indirectness is perceived as politer, but sometimes it's things the speaker intends to do, so I don't know.

The last school I worked in had a stationary cupboard. (Well, they were all stationary, but only one had a label).

Something I've seen lately and am unsure of is a sentence like: 'Good morning!' he greeted. To me, that looks wrong and the verb should have an object - he greeted her, Tim, the dog, etc. Even then it's not the most elegant sentence, but is not having an object there completely incorrect or is it a regionalism/pickiness on my part?

The chemical name is N-acetyl-para-aminophenol and the US drug naming conventions required the drug to not end in -mol, as that's reserved for things like Salbutamol (Ventolin) - their rules actually make more sense, as they allow the name of the drug to provide a clear indication of their chemical type/action/group.

In parts of Scotland 'greeting' can mean crying, I think. Not really relevant, but interesting!

I thought 'The dog needs fed' was a Yorkshire thing, but that might be just because I knew someone from Bradford who said it.