Pedants unite! Please come & vote for “another think coming”!

[GiantKitten]

Dominic Grieve is reported to have said “another thing”!
In the Commons

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It's THINK.

CassianAndor
Are people who have chosen to spend their time commenting online about grammar/vocabulary usage of a politician in any way representative of the population at large? Don’t think so.

@Hiredandsqueak

...the people on my local Facebook selling page who list their items for sale as "Thinks"

That'll be because they have somethink to get rid of. Sometimes it'll be anythink and other times nothink worth thinking about.

Think on...as my Yorkshire forebears would advise.

*campion

Definitely think. People just mishear it and never see it written down.

My vote is for think.

@BrittleJoys Oh thank god, I see I'm not the only one who finds 'The proof is in the pudding' meaningless and extremely annoying.

Think. Thing has no meaning.

It's def. 'think'. You've got another think coming - because you didn't think about it carefully enough the first time. (Or what you proposed was taking the piss, etc.)

Another think.

Think.

No doubt about it.

It’s think, otherwise it doesn’t make sense.
Although I suppose “thing”could be construed as a veiled threat, Ie “ carry on thinking like that and another thing will come your way, AND YOU WONT LIKEIT”
sort of thing.

But, I’m afraid the “think/thing” game is pretty much already lost now.

Well, yes, as this thread attests, it's clearly "think" and most people know that.

I say thing but it doesn't make sense. It should be think. I can admit that, but I'll still say thing :)

This is really weird.

I'm 'thing', because the expression goes something like : 'you believe Boris will relent to the EU? You have another thing (radical idea) coming!'

It's ideas, not actual indivual thoughts.

I'd never use the expression 'you think that? You have another think coming'. That's throwing grammar out the window.

It’s still Thing, you can go on all you like!

"think" makes bugger all sense, it would be "thought" if that was the case.

Which it's not. Because it's "thing".

Think. It depresses me when people are wrong, but even more so when they put up a spirited (though illogical) defence about their wrongness. Presumably they have never said “I’ll have to have a think about that”?

Cam77, no, not representative of the population at large, just correct.
The mere fact that Dominic Cummings used “thing” should tell you everything you need to know.

I’m surprised at the number of people who can’t admit that a think is a real thing (and not the same thing as a thought).

I’m not a prescriptivist at all - unlike some of the people on this thread busily insisting, wrongly, that their way is the only correct way. But it’s very obvious, just based on observation of all the evidence, that the traditional and long-established version of this expression absolutely is “another think coming” - and that this does in fact work perfectly well in terms of sense and syntax.

You don’t have to like it. But it’s objectively true.

Can’t wrap my head around people high-handedly denying it and claiming to be on the side of logic. Just look it up

It has to be another think!

If you think that, you've another think coming.

You can't have another thing coming!

Really, 'think' sounds a bit NetHuns.

You can't make it true just by being populist.

Wtf?

It’s right because it’s

Correct.

Unshriven you belong on Nethuns. So uneducated. Tsk.

“If you think x (wrong thought) you’ve got another think (right thought) coming”

But the expression isn't restricted to thoughts (unliss you are very literal, and thick).

It can go 'people who voted for Brexit (for example) have another thing (i.e. another radical example) coming.

E.g. ' if you think pink elephants are next years big fashion statement, you have another thing (unicorns, liver, the face of Corbyn) coming.