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

[BelfastBloke]

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?

[BelfastBloke]

actually this thread is at its best when it is about mis-expressions rather than misspellings or mispronunciations, but still...

"it sounds like you had a wail of a time!"

[BelfastRingingOutForXmasBloke]

And I've just got an email from our estate agents who are trying to sell a house in a "sort-after village".

[Sapphire2012]

One that always gets me is "Chester drawers" not "chest of drawers" I swear people think "chester" is the make of drawers

[Go]

My neighbour has an "emergency heater" for her hot water. Her husband plays "bowels" twice a week and her friend recently had "cancer of the cologne".

[Clunge]

My grandma often says she's waiting on "tender hooks".

[ArsMamatoria]

'Off my own back' for 'off my own bat'. My personal favourite (seen today in the newspaper) is 'no holes barred' for 'no holds barred'. Snigger.

[BelfastBloke]

My DD believes that Finding Nemo is all about finding Nemo, who was taken away from his father by a scuba-diaper.

[cestlavie]

One, by a former colleague to a client, but which I've seen elsewhere:

"At the end of the day, it's something of a mute (moot) point". Seriously, a mute point. How would that work then?

And one which frankly drives me up the wall which you see all to frequently:

"I could of done that as well". Oh my god, I don't even know where to start on how wrong that is. It makes me want to weep.

[lightlyscrambled]

Ooh, I'm having a stressful day and was on route to AIBU when I found Pedants' corner. I think I'm in love...

[GetOrfMoiLand]

One which makes me want to kill fellow mumsnetter is when they agree with someone else's post and post 'here here'.

Chest of draws is a mark of someone being a bit thick i think.

This just made me really laugh

Deux Fri 17-Sep-10 19:16:28
When my DH was once commenting on my behaviour shall we say, he called me a GORGONZOLA. It went something like 'deux, you are behaving like a gorgonzola'. He meant gorgon.

I very nearly PMSL what with the weak pelvic floor.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I have just seen a howler on another thread on ethics in donor eggs - 'unefficle'

[campion]

' she put her ore in' - on another thread.

[BelfastBloke]

'It may well be a deep-seeded problem".

Wrong, but makes sense!

[thumbdabwitch]

I love pedants' corner

so many on here that I fully agree with.

Ones that really make my teeth itch to say something:
confusing 'effect' and 'affect'
loose for lose (drives me BATS)

There are many more...

[AnnoyingOrange]

free reign

no no no

it's free rein

[AnnoyingOrange]

tow the line

no no no

it's toe the line

[DaisySteiner]

My friend's baby was delivered by "mange tout"

[DaisySteiner]

Slightly different, but my boyfriend-at-the-time's mum heard a news report about a criminal having 'the book thrown at him in court' and truly thought that someone had thrown a book at him. I thought she was joking and then PMSL when I realised she wasn't.

[thumbdabwitch]

Daisy - PMSL!! "mange tout" - that's a quality malapropism, love it! worthy of Del-Boy, that one.

[BelfastBloke]

I don't get the "mange tout" ref.

I do know that when my aunt was ordering mange tout from a restaurant menu, she pronounced it, "man get out".

But that's not what is funny to Daisy and Thumb, right?

[thumbdabwitch]

it's a malaprop for ventouse, Belfastbloke

[DaisySteiner]

"man get out" is also v. funny

[BelfastBloke]

Yeah, it must have been written 'mangetout" on the menu. Took us ages to work out what she was talking about.

[EricNorthmansMistress]

Man get out

[BelfastBloke]

"It is of upmost importance"