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2 that come to mind are:
Damp Squid - instead of Damp Squib (which is a small explosive or firework)
Chomping at the Bit - rather than Champing.
Also - the worst spelling mistake I ever saw.....
Sent to me by an Employment Agent a few years ago when writing the job description...
Ofey (instead of Au Fait).
He had a fecking job and I didn't!!!!!
Damp Squid - instead of Damp Squib (which is a small explosive or firework)
Chomping at the Bit - rather than Champing.
Also - the worst spelling mistake I ever saw.....
Sent to me by an Employment Agent a few years ago when writing the job description...
Ofey (instead of Au Fait).
He had a fecking job and I didn't!!!!!
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You could find a million examples on here of folk referring to a bet as a "shoe in".
Also a couple of foody ones, Holland day sauce and cold slaw. I also laughed today reading another forum when a woman disagreed with a guy and he called her an uneducated lesbain. |
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Its...fu.king ...not fecking
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Tow the line for Toe the line.
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"Should of"
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tenderhooks/tenterhooks
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I differ to beg
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Fountain of all knowledge, should be Font.
PMSL, should really be PML. |
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I think 'as sure as eggs is eggs' should be 'as sure as x is x'
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Loose instead of lose seems to be the most common one I see.
Oh, and a kid at college was reading a passage from a book out loud and pronounced it as A rabs instead of Arabs  |
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You need to be more pacific
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Did it off his/her own back, not bat.
Minor seethe. |
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tenderhooks/tenterhooks
Is that you Charlie? |
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pretty much every black person Ive ever met or even heard on tv says 'ahhks' instead of ask. It's really weird.
I asked a black girl i worked with once why she says it and she said she didnt, then about a minute later she said it again. I pointed it out to her and she look really confused as if she was going mental! Obviously someone will call me racist but its just a really bizarre fact and I have never understood it. |
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Oh and this one - I can't be asked
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Big headed/Pig headed
They mean different things. |
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Fella is work continually uses pacific instead of specific. Does my head in
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in*
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'To gild the lily' has become accepted as a phrase in English. Originally it was a misquote from Shakespeare:
'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily'. Maybe one day some of the mistakes mentioned above won't be mistakes any more. Plural's with apostrophe's get on my wires. And 'spitting feathers' seems to be a phrase that is changing its meaning over current generations. Above a certain age it means thirsty, below that age it means angry. |
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irregardless instead of regardless,seems to be catching on,found myself saying it the other day
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i had curry last night, my arse is literally on fire
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Wet your appetite
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Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well.
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Everyone gets this wrong...
Reiterate. They should use "iterate", which means to repeat. Reiterate means to repeat again. The "re" is totally superfluous. |
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PIN number
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Hot temperatures
Fast speed Cheap prices |
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All that glisters is not gold
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well when you spell it right...
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PIN number is an interesting one, probably said because PIN on it's own could mean many things and i guess PI number doesn't quite sound right ..something like that
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a bird in the hand is worth two in her bush.
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much like the hoi polloi.
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I've always thought that 'cheap at half the price' doesn't make sense.
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wa laa or whatever it is instead of voila
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What's wrong with
Hot temperatures Fast speed Cheap prices I mean, they're clumsy, but not wrong are they? |
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Diva - was about to put that one
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Pandorica - yes,they are wrong
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Why?
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High /low
less people etc is another |
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My dear departed mum-in-law once proudly showed me her new muslim curtains.
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