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Chester drawers

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 16/12/2022 17:40

This may have been done before but I find this really annoying. Someone advertised a chest of Chester drawers the other day 😂. Anyone else.

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AutumnCrow · 16/12/2022 17:41

Yes it's amusing but some people are doing it tongue in cheek now.

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 16/12/2022 17:48

Oh really. This was fb marketplace. Lol

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PedantScorner · 18/12/2022 15:18

It's been done many times before @teaandtoastwithmarmite , and it's not chester drawers, it's chester draws.

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PedantScorner · 18/12/2022 15:26

Someone offered body location on my local freegle.

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Hopeyoursproutsarealreadyon · 18/12/2022 15:27

Saw puppies on gumtree bread from good quality parents.

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BCBird · 18/12/2022 15:28

That book Eats Shoots and Leaves was funny in parts.

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PedantScorner · 18/12/2022 15:34

There are usually duvans, dinning tables and filling cabinets on offer, and various stationary items.

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Aquamarine1029 · 18/12/2022 17:19

Chester drawers makes me loose my mind.

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Viviennemary · 18/12/2022 17:24

It's annoying. I've seen 'sort after item' at those antique/collectors fairs.

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Comeback25 · 18/12/2022 17:30

"Dose anyone no". Aaaarghhh!!!!!

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MyGrandmaLizzie · 18/12/2022 17:38

Gotten....unless you are a North American

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OchonAgusOchonOh · 18/12/2022 17:40

MyGrandmaLizzie · 18/12/2022 17:38

Gotten....unless you are a North American

Gotten is normal in Hiberno-english too.

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maximist · 18/12/2022 17:45

I give you a chase long....

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PedantScorner · 18/12/2022 17:56

Chase Lounge, surely?

Someone keeps requesting a chaise longue on my local free site, but says one like the photo. The chair in the photo isn't a chaise longue.

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 18/12/2022 18:04

@PedantScorner I stand corrected 😂😂

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 18/12/2022 18:04

Needs gone today

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GimmeBiscuits · 18/12/2022 18:07

Hen doo/ work doo. It's do.

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PedantScorner · 18/12/2022 19:32

Isn't that from accidentally pressing a key twice? I have a habit of typing off, onn, inn, itt etc and the spellchecker doesn't spot them.

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GimmeBiscuits · 18/12/2022 23:10

I'm not sure, Pedant, I've seen it written incorrectly several times in the same post on social media.

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TokyoSushi · 18/12/2022 23:13

Surely you mean Chester Draws? 😉

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Needmorelego · 18/12/2022 23:17

I quite like it. I hope it will be one of those names for an object that has changed over time - as language is always evolving.
I like to think that 50 years in the future people will go to Ikea for furniture and say "ok...we are here to get a bed, Billy bookcase and a Chester" and no one will think it's odd 😂

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FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 18/12/2022 23:18

To all intensive purposes

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PayPennies · 18/12/2022 23:18

Need gone today makes the insides of my mouth itch.

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MrsMoastyToasty · 18/12/2022 23:22

It's Chester Drawls in Bristol "for sell sights ". You can buy a poof , a setty too.

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Jellybean23 · 18/12/2022 23:23

Bare with me

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