To ask for your misheard common sayings?

[TheGhostsOfMeAndYou]

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.

Until I was 55 year’s old I thought that the insect beetle was spelled beatle 🤭

I like saying "one swell foop" though. I know it's wrong but swell is a better adjective than fell and foop is more fun to say than swoop.

Beatles are an endangered species though. There are only two left.

@TheWickermanReturns Have I discovered a fellow MN linguist? 😊 I absolutely agree, languages change and there are few words now that are identical to their Middle English counterparts, so a time travelling Middle Englander would consider most of our current language an aberration. We need to changes or we'll drive ourselves mad. Having said that, the day that scholars deem 'should/could/would/must of' as an acceptable variation will be a sad day indeed.
Ps Are you saying acorn has been removed from the dictionary? That's nuts 😂

Because it seems to cause stress and disbelief on here not infrequently that Hiberno-English has different standard usages.

Obviously It originated in English in that English colonial projects introduced the English language into Ireland. Whether it’s currently used in Scotland is entirely irrelevant to its Irish usage.

Brilliant 😂

What about one swell poop?

St Pancreas (an interesting canonisation)
He's got prostrate problems (what, he can't lie down?)
Per say (although pronounced the same as the correct version, per se)

Convent Garden

I know the right word is think, but I grew up saying ‘another thing coming’ although this could be an accent thing. To be me the ‘thing’ was a bit abstract, like an idea. You think you’re going out dressed like that? Well you’ve got another thing coming!’ Where thing is an idea or view, or indeed a think!

One that I wonder about is the word ‘burglarised’ rather than burgled . I think it’s US English. Have they always used this word or am I just noticing it now?

As opposed to one fell swoop LOL

Westminister drives me nuts as it's always lifelong Londoners who say it

As far as I know it’s just as standard in Scotland as in Ireland. And my assumption was that it had persisted in Ireland because of the Scottish influence. But it might be the other way round of course.

I agree that people on here can get very worked up about regional variation in use of English.

So far as colonial projects go, much the most interesting language use for me is Indian English. It’s sometimes wonderfully rich and elaborate. I also like American English when it’s pithy and direct: Americans have some great aphorisms.

DH had treatment for prostate issues. Thanks for being another who doesn't insert that extra R!

Is it disoriented or disorientated?

Both are correct , @teaandtoastwithmarmite , but disorientated is the one usually used in the UK.

It's thing, not think

It's thing, not think

No it's not, as even a tiny bit of research would tell you.

Oh dear 😂

Aah thank you. I heard disoriented more lately so got confused but I've been reading a lot of American books lately so that explains it.

It used to be a convent garden, some connection with Westminster Abbey.

I used to think it was "common old garden" instead of "common OR garden"

I think my way makes more sense personally!