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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Have never heard think only thing as in wallop

Wasn't it originally eg " ...he's got another thing coming" but then became "if you think that you've got another think coming"

Sorry if someone already said that, read half the thread

Those of you who say you’ve ‘only ever heard thing’, are either ‘hearing’ ‘thing’ the way that some people ‘hear’ Starship singing ‘We built this city on sausage rolls’, or you’re just listening to other people perpetuating their own mishearing.

Er, pigs, I said I was agreeing with you - that (I thought) you were implying that proper pedants rightly use evidence so are not guided by prejudice. So I was suggesting that you (as presumably a self-identified pedant) would not use prejudice rather than literary evidence etc.

I think you're muddling up two phrases Neome. There's "he has/had it coming to him", but I don't thing "he has a thing coming to him" was ever used — it's much less snappy!

Oh goodness, that should be "...but I don't think...". This thread is infecting me!

'Think' predates 'thing' and only came about because of the misapprehension of the 'k' in think as the 'c' in coming. Think makes more sense as you are suggesting that the other person needs to think again because they are wrong in what they are thinking.

*@DadDadDad. I understood that.

I was just being pedantic in my reply.

When I was in primary school I always used to write anythink. The teacher used to circle the 'k' in red pen every time