..."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?

I knew a guy who did a lot of public speaking and he would constantly say, "...so without further Adieu...".

It used to drive me flipping mental and make me cringe...

A boss was trying to soften the blow of not replacing one employee. He kept saying that he didn't want to "upset the apple tart"

Cracking up here about the durex dog! Not literally though.

A neighbour used to have an "ali-station" dog.

An estate agent is attempting to sell me a house "located in private road in highly attractive sort after village."

My son's pre-school had a dress up day to 'co-inside' with World Book Week (along with many random apostrophes thrown into the letter for good measure). I do despair when we get letters home. What hope is there?

My ds brings his school newsletter home every week and we play spot the rogue apostrophes.

It's quite educational for him, annoying for me.

A poster acknowledges her DH "is between a rock and a hard space".

What is a hard space?

Pedantically I know its a Spoonerism, but its a comedic mishearing even so. A friend of mine says, and convinced the correct term for a Faux Pas is,

"Po Fah"

"Are there lots of people clambering to join?"

Going back to the reading words but not knowing how to pronounce them,I thought for years that "segue" was pronounced "seeg". Because nobody ever writes it with the umlaut, do they? And I listen to a LOT of Radio 4.

I didn't realise that it was spelled segue for years - i used to think it was spelled segway (until one day I saw it written down in the correct context and had an epiphany!)
Where do the umlauts go?

Isn't the machine - the two-wheeled standing vehicle - spelled SegWay?

So seeing that in print might have subconsciously confirmed what nickelbabe thought the spelling of 'segue' was.

I often see people write "make due" instead of "make do".

"... Nobody else battered an eyelid"

My mum, bless her: cool, calm and collective

A patient once told me he had taken irn-bru-fen

My gran paid polo tax and shopped at Strangeways

Here's one I saw today:

"her billing system is seriously floored"

AAAARGH!

Hate 'It doesn't phase me' (faze)

..and, in a reversal of the one other pedants have pointed out earlier on this thread, I saw a post on here yesterday referring to "the luck of the drawer".

Pedants' corner works because we're all pedants.

Pedant's corner works as each individual pedant who posts on Pedant's (sic) Corner is a pedant.

Should we ask - nay demand - that MN give us an apostrophe? Where should they put it?

No one would notice except other pedants.....

By "give us an apostrophe", do you mean an emoticon? There is already an apostrophe in the topic name "Pedants' Corner,' so where would the new one go?

Could any of you clever old things tell me the correct pronounciation of behemoth? My dh says beermoth which makes my teeth itch. Please tell me he's wrong.

Buh-he-moth.

Another one that I often see is "run from pillow to post". Yes, try tying your horse to a pillow, rather than an pillar.

My OED has the stress on either the first or second syllable, but includes the "h" sound your DH so plummily dispenses with (is he a "Chumly" type, who looks down on "Cholmondleys"? )

OED says it is Late Middle English, from Hebrew "behemot", intensive pl. of behemah, "beast".

In Russian (it's the name of a character in "The Master and Margarita"), the syllables are also retained (so no "posh" slurring, IslaValargeone's DH!), in "Begemot" (3 syllables)

We once had a very long and argumentative thread on 'you've got another think coming' with some otherwise intelligent and reasonable posters refusing to admit that their version, 'you've got another thing coming' was a mistake. Very amusing especially as the most determined 'thinger' was a self-confessed pedant.

People occasionally confess to being pendants, which is always good for a chortle...

Now that's interesting, Pludolph. I've been using my iPad so scrolling up to the top of the thread to see the topic name is a bit of a chore and I lazily looked at the URL at the top of the screen which has no apostrophe, and I, assuming it reflected exactly the topic name immediately decided we should activate ourselves against MNHQ and demand our rights!

I see I have made an idiot of myself for possibly the 4th time today on MN alone, let alone RL.... I think I shall have to go on Retreat and find myself again.

I have a colleague who uses the word " tamperfere"

So much better that tamper or interfere