In the vein of "Chester draws"

[ShatnersWoodwind]

On a local selling page:

"Chabby Chique bedside tables".

😂

I think the post meant when British people pronounce it like that it’s an affectation vs Spanish people. Which I think it probably is a little bit.

Instead of "I've", "iv"...dripped into discussions more than four times 🤓

I feel like I keep seeing, for example
"Que [this happened]"
Instead of
"Cue [this happened]"
I have no idea where that's come from! It's a weird way of talking too, like a stage direction?!

I assume it's a confusion between 'cue' and 'queue'.
It's liable to result in 'Is that you, Manuel?' responses which probably just puzzles younger MNers.

This is so weird - I don't recall ever having heard of Aix-La-Chapelle before today then I read this - then just now opened a music book and it was written in there!

😂😂😂 it’s so bad

I have four dictionaries in the house. None is modern. One has words I'm amazed exist. I looked in all four to see if 'onto' was there, soon after I'd written my post. It wasn't in three of them. It was in one which probably dates back to 1900ish! So then I looked at Google and I've forgotten what it said. I'll look again another day and see if I can see when onto would be all right and where not.

My head is saying, "How they brought the good news from Aix to Ghent" and wondering if that is 'a thing' - a poem? - and it's all getting mixed up with Paul Revere's Ride in my head.
But is it to do with Dirk and Joris and he and galloping all three. If it is there's a send-up of it which makes my sides ache with laughing.
As Mrs T's lecturer used to say, "Well, that's a digression".

see if I can see when onto would be all right and where not.

Before I read that, I also remember being told that "alright" wasn't in the dictionary, and "all right" was the correct term!

I'll look again another day and see if I can see when onto would be all right and where not.

I think the link I put in somewhere upthread explained it pretty clearly.

I liked the thread recently where the OP's dp asked for a "post-mortem" to be signed before getting married 😂

😂

I was reading a café menu and was pleased to see that the sandwiches are served with "crisp". Not crisps, so maybe it's just a single crisp!

Some of these seem more like typing errors than malapropisms.

This thread isn't only for malapropisms.

The title would suggest otherwise. But I'm not going to police the thread, I was just poiting it out 💁

It would have been more effective if you'd pointed it out instead.

How petty of you.

How petty of you.

This is Pedants' Corner, where we enjoy Muphry's Law!

I don't think you quite understand the point of the thread! A sense of humour would help you "get it".

I was thinking of this thread over the weekend, as someone I was in conversation with referred to his:

Chester freezer

I assume this is because they have a Chester style set of drawers, which could mean rectangle to them perhaps? So the freezer must also be Chester style.

Unfortunately I cannot stop thinking about it. I wish I had queried it, but I think I would have come across a bit pedantic (I am, but I am undercover pedantic).

Well, you also get chest freezers, so it could be that?

Presumably.

I wonder if he's also got a Chester Field Sofa?

Well, yes. A chest freezer.

So I am guessing they are also guilty of saying chester drawers.

I was implying that perhaps they think its a style 😂 as in Chester style shape.

@Cheerioshesaid @ErrolTheDragon @MyDeepZebra

Are these correct?

He fell backwards onto the coal-heap.

He slew the dragon and then strode on to rescue the maiden.