Common sayings people get wrong

[whitelion]

My eldest son had a girlfriend that would come out with wrong sayings all the time, we were at a wedding abroad and she said to me " I'm so thirsty I could drink a horse "

I'm sorry but this one gets me. When referring to a person ie your son's girlfriend it has to be who not that.

 

[the wanderbus]

I can't believe this thread has got to 17 pages with no mention of "early doors" , a *******ised version of "early days" that like football was invented by sky.....well Ron Atkinson when he was commentating for them.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'm sorry but this one gets me. When referring to a person ie your son's girlfriend it has to be who not that.

Thank you for educating me, very kind of you I hope I haven't ruined your evening

 

[Ned]

Another thing that really annoys me is 'a couple items' rather than 'a couple of items'. Is it so difficult to include the preposition?

 

[whitelion]

Thank you for educating me, very kind of you I hope I haven't ruined your evening

No England have done that.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Colleague of mine talks about being on the wrong tact instead of tack

The Argus often says' Hughton will be loathed to change the team!

 

[mr sheen]

My wife informed me last night that she was as sharp as a button. She has previously told me she wouldn't do something for all the tea in Switzerland.

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

 

[The Clamp]

Regardless of the exact wording of the original quote, this is one of the examples of the language developing and changing. Through common usage, 'Money is the root of all evil' has become a saying in its own right, albeit derived from an earlier, longer, more specific phrase.

May hell freeze over before 'would of' becomes standard, but I think it's fair to say that 'Money is the root of all evil' is now an accepted part of the vernacular.

No, it's just a misquote that is particularly wrong because it changes the intent of the whole phrase.

 

[Monkey Man]

I've just gone through this thread with a fine toothcomb.

I have lots of implements for combing my teeth, but the one I picked this morning is definitely one of the best.

 

[robinsonsgrin]

yesterday i heard... as white as a sheep

 

[GT49er]

"We didn't bring this case to court to stop or delay Brexit."


Shocking misuse of the word 'didn't'.

 

[Frutos]

"We didn't bring this case to court to stop or delay Brexit."


Shocking misuse of the word 'didn't'.

Nothing against you personally, but is it possible to have a single discussion on here without someone bringing up Brexit or an issue related to it?

 

[GT49er]

Nothing against you personally, but is it possible to have a single discussion on here without someone bringing up Brexit or an issue related to it?

Nothing against you personally either - but do you really disagree that it is a shocking misuse of the word 'didn't'? Very casual misuse of the English language in my opinion.

 

[The Clamp]

Nothing against you personally, but is it possible to have a single discussion on here without someone bringing up Brexit or an issue related to it?

If you hate this thread so much why don't you just leave it eh? In fact I vote this whole thread leaves NSC, we don't need to be moderated from some faceless money man in Worthing FFS! This thread will be fine without a site to host it, there are plenty of other football sites who would have us. Time we took back our power.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

If you hate this thread so much why don't you just leave it eh? In fact I vote this whole thread leaves NSC, we don't need to be moderated from some faceless money man in Worthing FFS! This thread will be fine without a site to host it, there are plenty of other football sites who would have us. Time we took back our power.

A little over the top perhaps? I vote continue the thread and leave politics behind?

 

[Collingburnian]

Try using a fine toothed comb

 

[BrianWade4]

No one in the world other than me seems to realise that invite is the verb and invitation the noun.

E.g.
"I will send you an invite".

 

[whitelion]

No one in the world other than me seems to realise that invite is the verb and invitation the noun.

E.g.
"I will send you an invite".

That's probably because it can be used as a verb or a noun.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

That's probably because it can be used as a verb or a noun.

Only happened in the last twenty years or so. It's deplorable.

Edit: Seems I was wrong. But it's still an ugly use of the word 'invite' if used as a noun.

http://grammarist.com/usage/invite/

 

[BN9 BHA]

I thought this was a thread about common sayings people get wrong, it seems to have been turned into an English lesson by some posters.