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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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Macaroni46 · 22/12/2022 13:21

IToldYouAmillionTimesAlready · 21/12/2022 15:38

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

Yes I saw that. Made me wince 😳

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 22/12/2022 13:26

GimmeBiscuits · 21/12/2022 13:45

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.

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 25/12/2022 10:19

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 😂

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

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 25/12/2022 10:22

quantumbutterfly · 18/12/2022 23:53

here here
😉

Where where?

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Wauden · 30/12/2022 08:57

TokyoSushi · 18/12/2022 23:13

Surely you mean Chester Draws? 😉

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

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PedantScorner · 03/01/2023 19:18

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

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PedantScorner · 08/01/2023 08:53

On offer today:
Sinning table hand made

Never used, if you're wondering.

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FlemishHorse · 08/01/2023 09:04

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.

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Scalottia · 08/01/2023 09:07

GimmeBiscuits · 18/12/2022 18:07

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!

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toffeecocomars · 08/01/2023 10:05

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

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DahliaBlue · 08/01/2023 10:34

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.

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PearlclutchersInc · 08/01/2023 10:36

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

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PearlclutchersInc · 08/01/2023 10:37

Wauden · 30/12/2022 08:57

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

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Ah, posted the same after you.

Ditto!

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Seymour5 · 08/01/2023 12:15

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.

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Tidsleytiddy · 08/01/2023 13:10

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

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 09/01/2023 17:30

Tidsleytiddy · 08/01/2023 13:10

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

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Usernamesarenoteasy · 09/01/2023 17:47

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!

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upinaballoon · 09/01/2023 19:55

PedantScorner · 08/01/2023 08:53

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.

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BigChesterDraws · 22/01/2023 19:45

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.

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paintitallover · 02/02/2023 20:49

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

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PedantScorner · 02/02/2023 21:25

BigChesterDraws · 22/01/2023 19:45

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?

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