Has DH got another think coming or have I got another thing coming???

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I’ll clarify

DH and I were having a light hearted debate about who was going to sort the garden out this afternoon (there are weeds growing out of weeds, and we have guests coming this week)
DH said that if I thought he was doing it today ‘I had another thing coming’.

I pointed out the phrase was ‘another think coming’ and that he should now go and do the garden as punishment for his failure.
However, he is insisting I am wrong and that ‘thing’ is the right word. I say that doesn’t even make sense! What ‘thing’ is coming?? He just says ‘English doesn’t always make sense.’ (Not technically his first language but he has a British parent so has always been bilingual and is completely fluent)

MN jury needed. Who is correct??
Loser will obviously be doing the garden. Winner will sit down with coffee and biscuits, looking smug and saying 'you've missed a bit.'

Also, if you buy something, you've bought it.

You haven't brought it!

Think. Deffo.

I think pacific/specific would be a dealbreaker for me. I couldn't respect anyone who did it (in the absence of any speech disorders etc).

Do those who use 'pacific' also 'pacify' a name/address/etc? And do they 'specify' their crying child with a 'specifier'.

Interesting that a few people have now said they say 'think', but their DH says 'thing'

Why are all these Men wrong??

People saying it's "thing" just haven't heard the saying properly & assuming it's "thing" without thinking of the sense of the phrase.

I think they're getting confused by On purpose and By accident.

Or maybe aliens walk among us?

It's think. If you think that, you've got another think coming. There's the logic in it.

Think. Obviously. As above, I'm embarrassed for those who are wrong!

Why are all these Men wrong??

Perhaps it's the violence thing ? All these men offering or expecting knuckle sandwiches as their thing.

Or perhaps they don't listen any more to their wives speak, some kind of training in mishearing what their wife's are saying - .

I say think, dh says thing. I'm horrified.

DEFINITELY THINK.

' THing' doesn't make any sense and loses all the jocular beauty of the original.

Wtaf!? I always thought it was 'thing'. I feel so ashamed.

My DH has just confessed he thought it was 'thing'. He's got another THINK coming. It's funny how the thingers still maintain they are correct, and how frustrating the rest of us are finding it...

Interesting article GreenPotato although the last line: 'And please share your most toe-curling linguistic gaffes below.' suggests that the author isn't quite as keen on being proud of his errors as some of the people on this thread :o

YY to infer/imply!

CactusAnnie, I can't stand the infer/imply muddle people get into. It makes me want to slap them. As does incorrect use of 'mortified'.

Definitely THINK. If you think that then you've got another think coming.
As in you need to rethink

I'll admit to struggling when people use jealousy and envy wrongly but I do think that's a lost cause, and also 'well jell' is great

And my own bugbear: unsociable/antisocial.

Unsociable people don't go to parties, antisocial people go to parties and shit in the pot plant.

Definitely think - as in, if you're wrong, you'll need to think again. Another thing coming doesn't even make sense!!

Wow, Maid, you've been to some interesting parties!

Think.

Jeez.

I was pondering recently on the number of people on my FB who insert spaces before exclamation marks and question marks. Do they all think I am stupid for not doing so? This includes my mother!

May I add refute/deny? Drives me bonkers. 9 times out of 10, the context is

".....I refute that!" No, you deny it. You could refute it if you were to show evidence; it means disprove.