To ask for your misheard common sayings?

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My husband thinks I am ridiculous that I always thought the saying "another think coming" was "another thing coming"

It's taken me 38 years to realise this and I now feel rather silly.

To all in tents and purposes 🏕️
To all intense and purposes 🤯

Incorrect use of literally. Oh mum I literally died! It also winds me up where I'm from people say been instead being. My manager sent me an email the other day saying die to there been no cover in December. It's colloquial thing where I come from I think. Also hear learn and teach mixed up, can't she learn you!

It's definitely N aitch S where I live and haitch in HR

It's "the pot calling the kettle black" - when someone is a certain way and accuses someone else of being that same way....

Eg: if Dave (who is a bit overweight himself) said that Bob was looking a bit chubby.... it would be the pot calling the kettle black!

Yes! But then you do hang and glide at the same time.

Youse 🤣

Well that's just daft then. It shows how people don't even give a thought to what comes out of their mouths. The letter's name is aitch. There is no such thing as haitch.

Why shorten it?!

My DH always says “in one foul sweep”.

"Another think" is correct following "if you think"....

But have you never listed someone's faults and finished off with 'and another thing, you never put the bins out in time.'

DH says haitch for H. It drives me insane, especially as he doesn’t pronounce H when words start with an H.

Sorry I quoted the wrong person. I meant to quote the poster who was looking for an example of "and another thing ".

😆 @SamphireAndSalmon it is even funnier when you hear the actual words! They were also around 60 years old so absolutely should have known

I say this, but I do it deliberately. Always makes me laugh when people give me funny looks. (Yes I'm weird).

Colonel Mustard did it. With a spatula. In the gateaux 🤣

Bit niche but I work in a university and get irritated when people say ‘doctorial’ instead of ‘doctoral’!

I take your point, however it is said so many times by different police representatives it makes me think every barrel has at least 2 bad apples.

On a local Facebook group I've seen a number of people using 'his' when they mean 'he's' and 'he's' when they mean 'his'. One spectacular day they were switched in the same sentence:

"His got to go back to school because he forgot he's coat."

Oh god give it a rest. Haitch and aitch are both correct - different doesn't mean wrong, unfamiliar doesn't mean wrong. It's such a close minded argument, every time. https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2013/nov/04/letter-h-contentious-alphabet-history-alphabetical-rosen Haitch is actually closer to the original form.

Here, the pronunciation is a sectarian issue and proclaiming one or the other as wrong in the workplace would have you called to HR (either pronunciation) very quickly.

People who get terribly exercised about ‘aitch'/‘haitch’ are in my experience generally socially insecure or aspirational and over-concerned with not ‘letting themselves down’ on a key shibboleth.

If anyone really wants their minds blown, ‘I amn’t’ is also a standard/correct usage in Hiberno-English.

I just can't be asked to do it.

As supposed to "one fowl swoop".

Why would that blow anyone’s mind? It’s more usual in Scottish speech but it’s still used occasionally in England (where it comes from, along with an’t (now obsolete), ain’t and aren’t - as in ‘aren’t I…’, which is regular but obviously doesn’t correspond with ‘I aren’t’).

It’s not Hibernian, except in the sense that it’s endured in Scotland.

Seeing someone this morning who was telling a story about how he "literally died". Someone overhearing, stepped in to correct the obvious foolishness. He listened carefully before replying "well the doctor told me that I was dead for two minutes, but what does he know".

It should be one fell swoop