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.'

Another "think" coming just sounds like slightly bad English which is why I thought it was the mistaken version.

It's jokey.

Get used to strange looks when you do then Green

I'm with clam now people know they are saying it wrongly why would they persist .

Starky If you think I've forgotten about that ten quid you owe me, you've got another think coming another thing coming, the thing being, I haven't forgotten and I'm not going to let you forget

Pay careful attention to your inclusion of the word 'another'.

'Another' implies a further item of the same type as one already defined.

If you have one car, you can have another car. If you have one bike, you can't have another car.

How can you have 'another thing' when you haven't yet had 'one thing'?

either is fine by me, but sure "thing" was there first.

It really wasn't

"I think it's fine to choose which you like and use it, as both are so widely used. Language and phrases do change"

What?! It's not an option; one is WRONG, so it's not about language "changing." Just because some people say "would of" instead of "would have" does not mean that we can choose it and think it's correct.

Of course it's THINK. Anything else would be ludicrous.

I'm assuming the people who say "thing" also refer to "feint" lines on pregnancy tests (FAINT! Dammit! FAINT!) and nucular bombs (NUCLEAR! Argh!)

I think it's fine to choose which you like and use it, as both are so widely used. Language and phrases do change

This type of 'change' risks making the speaker sound a bit stupid, though. As if they haven't grasped the meaning. It's not an evolution of language; It's a misquote.

I just went to talk this over with our roomful of teenagers next door (DS and a couple of mates) they all think it's thing

But after I explained the logic of think (and how it may have got changed to thing) DS did tell his friends "Hey, did you know a newt used to be an ewt and an adder used to be a nadder" so he seems to have taken on board that people can be mistaken and that language can subsequently evolve.

Thanks MNers an excellent entertaining yet educational point of discussion for a Sunday afternoon

It always used to be think, thing doesn't even make sense.

This is like all those who now say "He should of....", the incorrect usage is becoming the norm.

I agree, there will be a stage where people sound mistaken, then it becomes normal. As happened with "hopefully" and many other things in the past.

Hopefully (meaning "it is to be hoped that") used to be wrong, so wrong, you were an idiot if you used it etc.

I actually hate "pacific" instead of "specific" but it's so common, I think that will go that way too. Now, it sounds terrible to me, Probably in 30 years, it will be normal and in the dictionary.

I know LOADS of people who say and write "Another thing coming" to the extent that I only ever encountered "another THINK coming" in my 30s or something. (I wonder if there are regional differences maybe.)

When I said "surely" I was explaining why I've always thought that but if think came first, it came first. I still think if they are both current, they are both current.

Ive always said thing!
I'm going to carry on and judge anyone who says different as wrong.
So there.

It's think, you're right.

Think

It's definitely 'think'

It's thing and anyone that says think is as bad as Katie Hopkins.

God this thread is frustrating! The OP asked which version was correct, not which version you happen to say (and will apparently doggedly continue to say, in spite of the fact that it is absolutely wrong and makes no sense)!

Could it be an age thing? I'm nearly 50 and remember my grandma saying think, so thats an expression at least 100 years old. Are the thingers younger, learning from younger people who have got their wires crosed more recently?

My DH wants to know did either of you do the 'thing' that needed doing?
Also got a debate going on here..he thinks he should be thing..of course its Think, got to be, to go with the 'thought'?!

I'd suggest that anyone wanting to use a phrase but can't be bothered to use the correct words within that phrase, shouldn't use it. You sound ridiculous to everyone else.

It's THINK.

Katie Hopkins and the Oxford English Dictionary - yup, both as bad as one another!

Hum, it's definitely think. A lot of people have been confused by it though which is why there's now another wrong version where people use thing.

A bit like a lot of Americans say I could care less.

The correct version is you've got another think coming.

Of course it's think, thing makes no sense at all! So many phrases sound odd but are still correct. It basically means that you will have to rethink.

Oh autocorrect! Uhm*