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..."to all intensive purposes..."

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BelfastBloke · 17/09/2010 06:15

Anyone notice this yesterday in a thread?

I kept waiting for a pedant to jump in, but you didn't.

What are some other comedy mishearings?

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Jux · 21/02/2012 19:18

? Blackeyedsusan

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BelfastBloke · 08/04/2012 19:38

No-one battered an eyelid today!

That was one of the first entries on this thread, but I'd never heard it until today.

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aliportico · 08/04/2012 19:55

Read about X being at Y's "beckoned call" the other day :o

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BelfastBloke · 14/06/2012 15:47

"girls and boys give one another a wide birth until puberty."

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longsigh · 17/06/2012 20:15

Volumptuous and Cuppa-cino!!!
Annoys me everytime!

InelegantlyWasted · 17/06/2012 20:24

One of my all time favourites has to "sacramental goat" when the person actually meant "sacrificial lamb"! Grin
And my DP says "if the cat fits" all the time.

Pinner35 · 17/06/2012 21:08

I saw an ad in a local paper for an eau pear. I kid you not.

MrsColumbo · 17/06/2012 21:31

And the Aerosmith classic 'Doodle Like A Lady'...

choccyp1g · 23/06/2012 12:14

It's a mindfield.

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BelfastBloke · 23/06/2012 20:13

"If the cat fits"!

"It's a mindfield"!

Love it.

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streakybacon · 24/06/2012 08:55

Is that a youthanism?

SiioCal · 24/06/2012 08:57

I saw someone write on Facebook the other day - "well give him his JEWS" !!!! Shock

tethersend · 25/06/2012 22:11

I have to put this here otherwise I'll go and make a twat of myself on a thread.

For the love of God, please learn to tell the difference, your post is making my eyes bleed.

lostmywellies · 25/06/2012 23:46

"Mispronounciation" is a mispronounced word that sets my teeth on edge!

Sleepingonthebus · 26/06/2012 00:11

No matter how many times I corrected him, Ex would never say "It's 6 and half a dozen".

We got many variations of this. "It's 6 and 2 4's, it's 5 and 2 3's, etc"

He never ever got it.

WestleyAndButtockUp · 27/08/2012 12:58

"I don't want to cause a fence".

WestleyAndButtockUp · 28/08/2012 15:27

"The work of previous British Governments in making nudity laws by enlarge none discriminatory is commendable. "

womblingalong · 28/08/2012 19:09

I hate discrete for discreet, makes me want to scream!

perplexedpirate · 28/08/2012 20:50

A friend of mine will insist on saying (and typing) 'point in case' instead of 'case in point'.
I'm trying to find it endearing.

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BelfastBloke · 31/03/2014 08:00

"If the Premier League had announce of sense, they would …"

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ohmymimi · 31/03/2014 16:07

My two favorites are 'cist and decease' for 'cease and desist' (Tamra Barney repeatedly on 'The Real Housewives of Orange County'. She'd make Dr Spooner proud), and 'refuge' for 'refuse' (Eric Pickles on 'The Sunday Politics' was one perpetrator).

ohmymimi · 31/03/2014 17:24

Oh, and 'a panini'. Of course, we all ask for 'a capuccini, don't we?

NotMyChashkaChai · 01/04/2014 21:28

You never seize to amaze me!

Er no, that would be 'cease'!

NotMyChashkaChai · 01/04/2014 21:29

You never seize to amaze me!

Er no, that would be 'cease'!

DadDadDad · 03/04/2014 23:59

Not read whole thread - has anyone pointed out that these types of errors have been named "eggcorns" and have a corner of the web devoted to them. eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/