Common sayings people get wrong

[Titanic]

The proof is in the pudding

 

[Reagulls]

a work colleague of mine once described something that was nice to look at as "synthetically pleasing" I didn't have the heart to correct him.

 

[Titanic]

Wet your appetite

 

[Easy 10]

I don't think it's supposed to be a compliment, although I think you're right that it's used like that now. I always took it to mean that someone looked pure, or cute, or cool whatever, but actually were fake.

I always see it used exclusively as a compliment, but I've always thought 'butter wouldn't melt' sounds derogatory.

 

[Titanic]

Here, here

 

[Guinness Boy]

My wife gets condemn and condone the wrong way round and it drives me insane. As in "I condone that" when she means she's against it. She also sometimes uses the phrase "excuse the pun" and then doesn't make a pun, which also drives me insane. It's a wonder we're still married really

I also get irrationally annoyed when people use "less" instead of "fewer".

 

[FatSuperman]

I always see it used exclusively as a compliment, but I've always thought 'butter wouldn't melt' sounds derogatory.

I agree, apart from my uncle, who explained it to me decades ago, I've only ever heard it as a compliment. I'm fairly sure it was not originally intended as such. Although I think the battle is lost on this one (as it is on 'begging the question')

 

[FatSuperman]

I also get irrationally annoyed when people use "less" instead of "fewer".

Hahah I hate that one too!!

I have a good friend who purposefully says 'excuse the pun' when there isn't a pun. He likes to see people confused as they try and work it out.

 

[Titanic]

My wife gets condemn and condone the wrong way round and it drives me insane. As in "I condone that" when she means she's against it. She also sometimes uses the phrase "excuse the pun" and then doesn't make a pun, which also drives me insane. It's a wonder we're still married really

I also get irrationally annoyed when people use "less" instead of "fewer".

http://www.northstandchat.com/showt...me-or-are-there-less-poppies-around-this-year

 

[Guinness Boy]

http://www.northstandchat.com/showt...me-or-are-there-less-poppies-around-this-year

A whole thread full of wrong!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Entirely rational. File under the insidious creep of "season" (instead of "series") and "gotten" (instead of "become").

Gotten is old English. Nothing wrong with that!

 

[Gwylan]

Appropriate for this day, Binyon's For the Fallen is always misquoted. It's "They shall grow not old" not "They shall not grow old"

 

[Bodian]

Not sure if this should be here, or in the Bellcheeses thread, but I was out with my boss recently and we were looking at a landscape which he described as "Twittergenic".

 

[Bodian]

My wife gets condemn and condone the wrong way round and it drives me insane. As in "I condone that" when she means she's against it. She also sometimes uses the phrase "excuse the pun" and then doesn't make a pun, which also drives me insane. It's a wonder we're still married really

I also get irrationally annoyed when people use "less" instead of "fewer".

Go to post 2 on this thread, but calm down first http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?344944-Is-it-me-or-are-there-less-poppies-around-this-year

 

[The Clamp]

Dunno if it's been mentioned but when people say "off my own back". It is "Off my own bat". It's a pet hate of mine but the world still revolves so ho hum.

 

[tinycowboy]

My mum says:

They're going like wild cakes
I wouldn't let it touch me with a bargepole
You haven't got a hope in China
I wouldn't do it if you paid me tuppence

Good Southwick girl. Kings Manor idiom.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

"Make America Great Again"

Don't know why the word "again" is added.

 

[Titanic]

Skellington

Arksk

Chimley

Nukiller

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Anythink gets on my nerves more than it probably should.

St. Pancreas and London Houston were two I used to hear when I worked at Brighton Station that annoyed me as well.

The odd thing is that Americans pronounce "Houston" Hyooston, while most Brits say Hooston.

The exact opposite of noos and nyoos for "news".

 

[Albion my Albion]

This is the best thread.