Chester drawers

[teaandtoastwithmarmite]

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

[PedantScorner]

@BigChesterDraws

Hence my user name…

I once saw something on eBay where the seller requested payments be made “in Stirling”. That was too far for me to travel so I lost the opportunity of a bargain.

Was it a stationary cupboard?

[paintitallover]

Just saw a Facebook post by the police, stating that someone "could of.." FFS.

[BigChesterDraws]

Hence my user name…

I once saw something on eBay where the seller requested payments be made “in Stirling”. That was too far for me to travel so I lost the opportunity of a bargain.

[upinaballoon]

@PedantScorner

On offer today:
Sinning table hand made

Never used, if you're wondering.

Reminds me of a film with Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon, although I don't think they were sinning really.

[Usernamesarenoteasy]

I literally just saw Chester drawers on market place. I had to ask my children if they knew how to actually spell it to make sure!

[teaandtoastwithmarmite]

@Tidsleytiddy

“I took a natural flow test” It’s LATERAL!!!

[Tidsleytiddy]

“I took a natural flow test” It’s LATERAL!!!

[Seymour5]

Utmost importance. Not upmost.

Have these changes increased as reading books and newspapers has declined in favour of social media/TV? I left school at 15 in the dark ages, with nary a qualification. But even in what some would consider my dotage, I can’t help homing in on ‘draws’, ‘doos’, and not forgetting the ubiquitous ‘should/would/ could of’.

Perhaps the way reading is taught has had an impact. I pointed out to a grandchild that ‘aloud’ doesn’t mean permitted.

[PearlclutchersInc]

@Wauden

I hate 'draws' instead of 'drawers' with a vengeance. 🤓

Ah, posted the same after you.

Ditto!

[PearlclutchersInc]

Draws as in putting something in the draw enrages me as do the people who think this misspelling and bad grammar is just fine.

[DahliaBlue]

But to all intensive purposes (couldn't resist it) doesn't "hone in" work as well as "home in" - at least "hone" is a verb? I see "hone in" as sharpening up on a particular idea and kind of whittling away the surrounding content. I think it works better.

[toffeecocomars]

Surely 'Chester drawers' hasn't become a Facebook meme? You can't advertise them like that and expect people to take you seriously right?!

[Scalottia]

@GimmeBiscuits

Hen doo/ work doo. It's do.

Agree - where does the additional o come from?

I am slowly being driven crazy by the use of gift/gifting. Arrrrgh it isn't a verb!

[FlemishHorse]

A piece in the Guardian last week had “hone in on”

”Home in” is a compound verb meaning to concentrate on one feature.
”Hone” is a verb meaning to sharpen a blade.
“Hone in” is nonsense.

[PedantScorner]

On offer today:
Sinning table hand made

Never used, if you're wondering.

[PedantScorner]

It's a plinf on offer today. It looks quite a good one, and they've helpfully included photos.

[Wauden]

@TokyoSushi

Surely you mean Chester Draws? 😉

I hate 'draws' instead of 'drawers' with a vengeance. 🤓

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

@quantumbutterfly

here here
😉

Where where?

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

@Needmorelego

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 😂

That's rubbish. It might 'evolve' in this particular instance as a joke but that's all.

[teaandtoastwithmarmite]

@GimmeBiscuits

Just spotted: "We would like to wish all are customers a Merry Christmas."

There's an oasis song called Round Are Way. I think it's meant to be round our way but Noel Gallagher is dyslexic. I heard that he used to have a go at Liam for singing the wrong lyrics but he'd written them down wrong.

[Macaroni46]

@IToldYouAmillionTimesAlready

Someone one MN recently said her bloke doesn't like food "with source" 😂

Yes I saw that. Made me wince 😳

[mastertomsmum]

@Jellybean23

Bare with me

Oooh that reminds of an old vinyl 45 my Mum had by the Bellamy Brothers. It had a line in it like this “If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?”

[SunshineLollipopsAndRainbows]

My SIL always writes “ restbite”

[IToldYouAmillionTimesAlready]

Someone one MN recently said her bloke doesn't like food "with source" 😂

[PedantScorner]

On a local freebie site today:
"Christmas Tintsel
Various colours of christmas tintsel."