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.

@RenoDakota It isn't think, it IS thing

Also when people use chronic in the wrong way.

eg, I tripped over and hurt my foot something chronic.

I keep hearing/seeing ‘…step foot inside…’
It’s set foot inside (wherever).

If you really think that, you’ve got another think coming.

I’ve always said Arr. I’m in the landlocked north. A long way from any pirates!

Ive never heard R pronounced OAR

Spitting feathers. My dad used to say it when he was thirsty, but nowadays I hear people say it when they mean they are angry.

I love some of the Irish dialects and phrases.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow oar for are is some parts of Ireland. I knew someone who worked for oar tee ee - RTE

Ah l see. ( should that be OAR? Or ARR😂)

I think it does come from a name originally so you're not entirely wrong!

Apparently when radio was broadcast people from some parts of North couldn't understand the RP English.

Youse is a regional thing, mainly Liverpool area.

Or scared. "I saw a ghost and I was mortified". Why? Were you naked or on the toilet? Or do you mean terrified?

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow , they do not mean the same thing.

@Daftasabroom , I know.

Wrong use: All other posters saying they agree with the AIBU? and a poster saying 'Going against the grain here but YABU' (should be going against the flow)

Correct use: 'Going against the grain, despite having been a Labour voter all my life, I'm going to vote for Tori Inkhambent because she's a good constituency MP.

A lot of people "cast nasturtiums" - it's a well known known play on words thst has been around for decades.

Also decimate, it really means to reduce by 10%, not totally destroy.

Chronic isn't used in that sense as a misunderstanding of acute Vs chronic pain, it's a slang term for something bad. The use of the slang is correct in the example you've posted, even though it wouldn't be correct to tell the doctor it was a chronic pain.

I was just about to say about using decimated to mean annihilated.

Anyone else seen Bone Apple Teeth for Bon appetite?

Hello, writer here.

One thing I love (one think I love) about language is how it changes. This can sometimes be frustrating, such as the loss of ‘acorn’ in the Oxford dictionary so they could include ‘YOLO’, but it’s how we develop they way we communicate. Many great writers have invented words and phrases we commonly use today, such as Shakespeare.

I can’t imagine anyone here would sit down with Chaucer and say ‘Look Geoff, I know ‘galaxe’ fits better with your poetry but we really must stick with the Ancient Greek/Latin ‘gallaxias’. Instead he adjusted the word, it flowed better for his work and now it’s our every day pronunciation, with a further spelling variant.

Not all changes should be embraced and some things drive me crazy, but I do think language will ebb and flow and sometimes we just have to go along for the ride!

OMG! I became so aerated about the 'another think/thing' discussion, my brain scrambled and I contradicted myself all over the place!
Thank you to those folk who pointed out I was stupid
But it is 'think'!!

”water off a dugs back..”, my grandmother would not be told it was not right 😂

Decimate has two meanings. It can mean to destroy a large proportion of or one in ten.

My partner thought the phrase was “mose well”. Turns out he meant “may as well”. As in “I may as well buy some chicken while I’m at the shops”.

@TheWickermanReturns , decimated now has both meanings, but it originally meant reduce by a tenth. The 'destroyed' meaning evolved through misuse.

I’ve never heard it used in a slang way, only in a misunderstood way.