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 I hate, but see more and more, is the use of 'phase' instead of faze. I've even seen it typed in novels - what ever happened to proof reading?

As in 'he wasn't phased by her question' or 'nothing phases me', when it should be fazed/fazes..

They may sound the same but have totally different meanings. Grrr!!

My ex used to see a canceller to have cancelling. Used to drive me up the wall!

Is it just me that reckons they can guess roughly where he was from based on that 😁

A friend of mine used to feel "as bright as rain"....which I love!

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My ex used to see a canceller to have cancelling. Used to drive me up the wall!

Is it just me that reckons they can guess roughly where he was from based on that 😁

Whats your guess? He's the only person I know who says it and we are from the same town so i don't think it's a local thing

It just sounds like how someone from London or thereabouts would say it

I'm not a million miles from London!

I seem to see quite often from people 'your be fine' rather than 'you'll be fine'

Aaaargh

Eton Mess, aka Eat & Mess.

Also, my friend (who teaches English) thought it was 'giving up the goat', not 'giving up the ghost'.

"Fund the sauce". Took me a while, but I think it was meant to be find the source.

BurGULry.
It's burglary !!!

So many daft people write "devine" online rather than "divine".

Someone I know uses Argh for Ahhhh/Awww when something is cute/sad.

They also use Argh instead of our when talking about a person, eg Our Susan or Our Mam becomes Argh Susan or Argh Mam. Confuses the heck out of me.

I also know a chef who makes Canopies. He makes beautiful canapés but the spelling makes me howl with laughter.

I give you whalla, rest bite and kalms (qualms)

Eat and Mess? Sounds like something you'd get after a dodgy curry.
I spent some time studying the sweets in that picture. God, it's murder being on a diet. I want some!

‘Do the needful’ was common parlance among the many Indians I worked with in the Middle East.

Documents would land on desks with a memo attached, saying, ‘Pls do the needful.’

We used to get a lot of letters from Indians hoping for jobs. The most delightful ever was from a bloke saying he would ‘...moil and toil and burn the midnight oil’
My boss said we should give him a job as the station poet.😄

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Some people confuse "eligible" and "illegible".

Ah yes the illegible bachelor one.

Flaunting the rules instead of flouting them gives me the rage.

And "he was sat in the cafe" means he was forcibly plonked down on a chair.

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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?

This wasn't a mistake. Girdle is an old fashioned word for griddle.

girdle
[ˈɡəːd(ə)l]
NOUN
SCOTTISH
NORTHERN ENGLISH
girdle (noun) · girdles (plural noun)
a heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food; a griddle.

Thank you to those who cleared up the Brufen thing for me - it's annoyed me for years but at least I understand the background now!

@VeryLittleOwl I'm pretty sure the "revert" thing is taught in law school... lawyers always use that phrase!

Hmm, when getting ready for our wedding, our vicar advised us to pay attention to wording in the order of service, as a couple previously had ‘angles of desire’ in a hymn somewhere.

Also, I once saw a car for sale bearing a sign: ‘CITRON FOR SALE’.

I still have images of someone sat upon a lemon holding onto a steering wheel.

Wardrope. 🤣

Wardrove.

World wind ....

My sister's MIL though Alzheimers diseaae was 'Old Timer's disease.' It makes sense.