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.'

you can forgive slither for sliver though, because of all the v/th correction that goes on in early childhood ('I went out wiv my bruvver' etc)

it's quite cute

Oh god no.

Clam, tbh I am a self- confest lost cause. ( it took me three goes at confest and I'm still not sure!)

Pretty sure it is confessed now I've read it back!

I haven't read the last 15 pages since my last comment but I just wanted to say that everyone that thinks it's "think" is still wrong.

I'm not going to listen to the opinion of someone who writes 'everyone that'...

The English language is being mangled nowadays. Recently I have heard:

He apologised profoundly (instead of profusely)
He did it defiantly (instead of definitely)
For all intensive purposes (intents and purposes)
Slither/sliver
The me/myself issue
...and the one that really winds me up in work "Can you waiver the charge?" No because a waiver is a noun, the verb is to waive so I could arrange a waiver or waive the cost but I CANNOT FUCKING WAIVER ANYTHING!"

"I haven't read the last 15 pages since my last comment but I just wanted to say that everyone that thinks it's "think" is still wrong."

Very funny catmilkman! I shall not rise to the bait though!

I've started another thread just to branch off from the whole thing / think debate to raise other misconstrued phrases - I wonder if I'll trip anyone up? (Obviously not the illustrious posters on this thread. ).

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2500298-If-you-thought-that-was-the-end-youve-got-another-think-coming-More-language-errors-to-discuss

I'm sure its thing

Wow, so many of the first responses are so wrong. It's definitely think.

Actually, have a look at this article.grammarist.com/usage/another-think-coming/
Looks like 'think' was original but is now very rare and nearlly everyone says 'thing' now

It was quoted earlier in this thread, but this link is pretty clear - even if thing is the eggcorn of think and is less logical, thing is well-established and I'm not going to get that bothered about someone using it (I used thing most of my life too) - it's hard to spot in speech anyway because the k of think elides with c of coming. itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004971.html

It's THINK. Thing makes no sense whatsoever. I'm Northern too (Manchester) so please don't blame getting it wrong on regions.

Yes, it's think, but please stop this dogmatic assertion that thing makes no sense at all. It may not to you but to others it does make some kind of sense. See my posts yesterday, especially 17:05 and 18:34

maizieD: "It's deliberately ungrammatical, it should be 'thought' but 'think' sounds better."

I think you should go away and have a think about what you've just written.

The first page of this thread has to be one of the funniest things I've seen on this site. It's quite obviously "think", from the phrase "if you think that, you've got another think coming". How can it possibly be "thing", what would the "thing" be? It's frightening how many people here can't accept they're wrong.

Daddaddad. Your explanations weren't very good though. Another day is correct because there is always this day. Another thing is not because there wasn't a thing already.

Well I think I acknowledged the flaws, but the explanations are good enough to puncture your arrogant absolutism that thing makes no sense at all. Just because you can't see the sense don't be so close minded about the millions of educated intelligent people who have used thing and see some sense in it

"Millions of educated intelligent people use thing"...too funny for words! No intelligent or educated person would use "thing" rather than "think"..!

It makes no actual sense. And it's not because we can't understand the convoluted logic, it's just not very convincing. And as we've got the benefit of always having had the knowledge to understand the logic behind the actual idiom, the incorrect version just doesn't work at all. Sorry but that's just the way it is.

It's 'thing' - sorry.