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.

It still honestly blows my mind that it’s hang-gliding not hand-gliding.

Or should that be your a genius? (It pains me to actually type that.)

Not so much a saying but..

I spent my youth thinking Jerry Mandarin was a really horrible politician.

Gerrymandering, apparently.. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Its not a saying as such... but pissed vs pissed off.
Pissed used to just mean drink
Pissed off is annoyed.
But now pissed can mean annoyed.

Completely changes the meaning of a sentence!

Oh, not the 'haitch'/'aitch' argument again - we must have this once a week on MN. This is regional, and even political in some parts of the UK (NI). 'Haitch' is perfectly valid, and I say that as someone brought up in southern England where 'aitch' was the customary regional pronunciation.

Quite. The poster who said that wanting people to say 'aitch' not 'haitch' was 'encouraging people to drop their aitches' was still entirely wrong though. Dropping your aitches is saying e.g. 'orse instead of horse. Calling the letter 'aitch' is perfectly correct and is not aitch-dropping.

@Toothyfruity , It annoys me too. The one that winds me up is 'Going against the grain' when the poster means 'Going against the flow'.
'Going against the grain' means 'Doing something that is contrary to your nature' not 'Doing something different to what others are doing'

Haitch isn't a word AFAIK. The word for the letter H is Aitch.

It's this that meant the use of "She's so drunk!" instead of "She's so pissed" in Shaun of the Dead. English expressions become unusable in case USAnian audiences get confused.

You might appreciate this article:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-less

I say those H sounds the same in all of them, but then I'm Scottish and we say 'aitch' and never 'haitch'.

Yes, indeed. They're all aitch.

Agreed.

Pronouncing the single letter H as aitch instead of haitch doesn't mean we always pronounce it that way in words though, there are missing, soft and hard H sounds in words.

I don't say 'orse, I say horse.
I don't say 'air, I say hair.

I do say 'our and not h-our though, as do most of us.

Aitch and Em.
En Aitch Es.

Aitch or Haitch are both correct.
I've also heard hitch for the H sound in one Scottish dialect, yet they stil say horse, hair, house etc properly.

Pronouncing the single letter H as aitch instead of haitch doesn't mean we always pronounce it that way in words though.

I'm not quite sure what you mean there - we never pronounce it as 'aitch' in words. You don't say 'aitch orse' when you say the word 'horse'. The point is that the sound a letter makes in a word doesn't necessarily bear much relation to how you say the name of the letter. For example the name of the letter 'w' doesn't contain the sound a 'w' makes.

@sollenwir , the word is 'aitch'.
Aitch or Haitch are both correct. Haitch is a variant, presumably created by those who didn't want to drop their aitches.

My DP does a few that annoy me....
He's the "splitting image" of his dad.
We'll get to that bridge when we cross it.
We'll beg to differ on that (when he means agree to disagree)

Doing something ‘off your own back’, when it should be ‘off your own bat’!

Im seeing ‘just desserts’ a lot and I wonder if people think it’s some kind of punishment, ie you won’t get any main course, just dessert?

I saw ‘homing in’ in a magazine yesterday.

I liked Dana on Bake Off saying ‘photogenic memory’ although she did correct herself!

’Free rein’ and worse, ‘reign in’ bug me.

*honing in

My friend always says “it went down like a damp squid” meaning it was not well received. The actual saying is a damp squib (firework) .

Can someone link to some background on “youse got another thing coming”?!? I have never heard this is a phrase - “another think” yes, but not another thing.

You’ve not youse 🤦‍♀️

No. This is a misapprehension.

Saying haitch for the letter H doesn't have any impact on dropping the H in actual words though.

DH and I constantly say avogadro instead of avocado.

I disagreee, @BeardedIrises . haitch - Did you spell it correctly. Alternative spellings in the British English Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary