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.

Thing doesn't make sense and I can't believe your friends, family and particularly teachers say it. I don't know anyone that says thing instead of think.

Maybe your friends, family and teachers don't have a very good grasp of English

The person who said that asking people to use the correct 'aitch' instead of the incorrect 'haitch' was attempting to use ironing with humerus intent.

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"Reaching a crescendo". "Crescendo" means "growing" - it's the process not the destination.

The three that are currently irritating me most are people using worse and worst the wrong way around, people using exasperate when they mean exacerbate and people saying adverse when they mean averse.

Oh and that's leaving aside the widespread misuse of misnomer to mean anything incorrect instead of incorrectly named.

I feel you doesn't mean quite the same as I feel for you.

"I'm so tired"

"I feel for you" = I feel bad for you, I'm not necessarily tired myself but I have empathy and sympathy for you and your tiredness.

"I feel you" = I feel the same, I'm also really tired, it's tough isn't it.

Don't understand the difference between "mind your business" and "mind your own business", the inclusion of "own" doesn't change the meaning, just adds emphasis.

"It's a mute point" (should be "moot") and "in one foul swoop"(should be "in one fell sweep") - Actually, I quite like the "foul swoop".

I know of someone who used to talk about the "Admirality Arch" - which has a better lilt to it than the original.

But the one that really annoys me is "expiratory date". What on earth is wrong with "expiry"?

I knew this would kick this stupid argument off again. It’s think. It’s always been think. Thing makes zero sense. It’s appearing in google and even dictionaries because so many people use it incorrectly, in the same way ‘literally’ is now defined as metaphorically for one of its meanings.
Yes, language is a living thing and usage changes I but ‘another thing coming’ is as much nonsense as ‘could/would/should OF’ (which I now discover the new iPad spell checker resists! Hoorah!). I will not stand for that becoming accepted usage either!

Indeed. Or you reversed back, or will revert back.

Apologies if you're already aware, but Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1812 was a politician on the up, with few scruples.
'Gerry's Salamander' was a way of ensuring electoral success by joining up areas with supportive voters. The process became known as Gerrymandering.
I mention it because today this term has itself become a matter of argument, because it it now used more broadly (by some) to include any practice that limits voters ability to support a rival candidate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

AppleDumplingWithCustard · Today 13:02

Purposely and purposefully are often confused.

My daughter (10) told her English teacher that meant "on purpose," or deliberately, when she said that she'd done something purposefully. I think that it probably didn't help her case...

Agreed - expiration date is a US import, like transportation for what used to called transport.

Magnificent

People have been saying/writing could have since way before the 80s. Is that ok too?

These are all accent/dialect things. Most English speaking accents don’t say oar for R, just some Irish ones.
Press is a specific sort of cupboard unless used dialectically.
Bold means brave in most dialects, nit ‘being misbehaved’ - as in Star Trek ‘boldly going’: did you thin’ they weren’t supposed to?
Naughty means being misbehaved in both the childish and adult senses in most dialects.
I love dialects. But it’s not the same as sayings or aphorisms being mangled.

Friend's mum used to say 'as deaf as a bat'

That last one is 🤣🤣🤣🤣expiratory is to do with exhalation of air and breathing. Someone is having you on😉. Simply no such thing as expiratory date-sounds like the date you stop breathing 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Expiration Date is a term though. It is the standard American legal term

and expiry date is the preferred legal uk term.

becuase so many products are sold globally, the Us legal term becomes the default. So almost all medication references expiration dates including the methods on how it is calculated by regulatory authorities all over the world. It’s very rare medication expiration dates get called expiry dates.

if you see a food item with the term expiry date, it’s likely to have been produced specifically for UK. Not always, but a strong likelihood.

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I have vision of bats face planting walls now 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

That last one is 🤣🤣🤣🤣expiratory is to do with exhalation of air and breathing. Someone is having you on😉. Simply no such thing as expiratory date-sounds like the date you stop breathing 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Expiratory date is what I get asked for almost every time I'm making a credit card payment over the phone. Not "expiration date"

If only more people realised that, eh?

Just use logistics 😉

despatch and dispatch…supply chain is full of these USA vs European terms .

Hope it's not a non sequitur, but if I accept what you say, just because you say it would apparently make me an ipsedixiter. So maybe I'm a millennium or two behind the times.

Ok……never heard that one….but it still is wrong! No such thing. Your bank must be full of …erm…idiots?

google it- doesn’t come up. Expiratory does- breathing.

People using commiserate when they commemorate (Armistice Day).

... rather dependant on the sport in question.