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Post by lovestocreate on Aug 8, 2014 3:41:58 GMT
you say differently than most or have figured out you had all wrong? When I was younger I thought "at my wit's end" was "at my wet sand". Like the person saying it was so frustrated they wanted to jump in the ocean and were at their "wet sand"!
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Post by garcia5050 on Aug 8, 2014 3:46:32 GMT
My husband and I disagree about whether the correct term is "wrought iron fence" or "rod iron fence". We have agreed to disagree. Sort of.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 3:48:15 GMT
My husband and I disagree about whether the correct term is "wrought iron fence" or "rod iron fence". We have agreed to disagree. Sort of. Oooh, no disagreement there! Wrought iron is correct. Rod iron is not.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Aug 8, 2014 3:48:24 GMT
My husband and I disagree about whether the correct term is "wrought iron fence" or "rod iron fence". We have agreed to disagree. Sort of. This is not debatable by reasonable people: it's WROUGHT iron.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 8, 2014 3:49:25 GMT
My husband and I disagree about whether the correct term is "wrought iron fence" or "rod iron fence". We have agreed to disagree. Sort of. Wrought iron. No 2 ways about it.
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Post by melanell on Aug 8, 2014 3:50:51 GMT
Oh, it's absolutely wrought iron.
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garcia5050
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Post by garcia5050 on Aug 8, 2014 3:51:27 GMT
This means that I'm right. Woohoo! I'm going to save that juicy tidbit for the next disagreement.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Aug 8, 2014 3:53:51 GMT
The only misheard phrase I can think of now is that I am sure I used to think it was "for all intensive purposes" until I saw it written out. (For all intents and purposes.)
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 8, 2014 4:07:03 GMT
Another one that people often get wrong (not me because I'm perfect ) is "one foul swoop" instead of "one fell swoop".
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 8, 2014 4:11:40 GMT
Not mine, but Joey on friends thought it was a moo point. Like a cow said it so it didn't matter.
Lots of people say I could care less.
I remember singing lyrics incorrectly though. Many of them.
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Post by dulcemama on Aug 8, 2014 4:17:22 GMT
I have a friend who often changes one word in a saying or randomly mashes two different sayings together, thereby creating a hybrid saying. My favorite that I remember her saying once is "I don't have two minutes to rub together."
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Post by mzza111 on Aug 8, 2014 4:17:25 GMT
Anyone growing up in Southern California think the Cal Worthing Ford commercial said "pussy cow pussy cow pussy cow" instead of "go see Cal go see Cal go see Cal"? What about the Men at Work song Land Down Under...I always thought the line was " He just smiled and I gave him a bite of my sandwich" but found out it was really "He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich".
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Post by chaosisapony on Aug 8, 2014 4:19:52 GMT
I SMH every time I see "mute point" written in a post. Moot. The word is moot.
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Aug 8, 2014 4:22:06 GMT
Ooh - tons of these. One that springs to mind is my sister misunderstanding a 70's song by 10cc. The line is whispered by a woman (w/an accent, I think) and she's saying 'Big boys don't cry'. My sister thought it was 'be moist & quiet'. To this day, when one of us wants the other to shut up, we'll say 'Be moist!'
I don't know if this counts, but my husband used to use the term 'Hogan's goat' all the time. I had never heard of it, so kept insisting he was making it up. Googled it. Turns out he's not.
My mother used to say 'wreck of the Hespers' all the time. Basically to a messy room or when one of us was beraggled. I said it for years. Turns out it's 'Wreck of Hesperus'.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Aug 8, 2014 5:10:04 GMT
One that I see regularly on here is 'could have cared less'. It should be 'couldn't have cared less'.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 6:25:54 GMT
Instead of saying "used to it", my husband says "used tuv it" with a "V" at the end of "to". His mom says it that way too. Drives me crazy.
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Post by gar on Aug 8, 2014 7:47:44 GMT
To all intensive purposes It's to all intents and purposes.....isn't it?
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 8, 2014 7:51:34 GMT
One that I see regularly on here is 'could have cared less'. It should be 'couldn't have cared less'. I really don't care which one is correct.
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Post by leftturnonly on Aug 8, 2014 7:54:27 GMT
Instead of saying "used to it", my husband says "used tuv it" with a "V" at the end of "to". His mom says it that way too. Drives me crazy. According to many people here, "used to could" is the correct way to say it. Maybe nobody told them there could be a v in there too. I wonder if I could start a new trend?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 8:50:29 GMT
My husband and I disagree about whether the correct term is "wrought iron fence" or "rod iron fence". We have agreed to disagree. Sort of. The use of the word "wrought" is to describe the process of the metal ( in this case the iron) used in the manufacturing tell him...not a description of the actual iron fence itself. There are varying "types" of iron...wrought..cast...
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Post by BarbaraUK on Aug 8, 2014 10:34:49 GMT
I think the classic here in England is children singing 'one horse soap and sleigh' instead of 'one horse open sleigh' at Christmas!
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 8, 2014 11:24:47 GMT
Instead of saying "used to it", my husband says "used tuv it" with a "V" at the end of "to". His mom says it that way too. Drives me crazy. Yes!!! I've heard that too. I think they're actually saying "used of it".
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 8, 2014 11:27:48 GMT
Ooh - tons of these. One that springs to mind is my sister misunderstanding a 70's song by 10cc. The line is whispered by a woman (w/an accent, I think) and she's saying 'Big boys don't cry'. My sister thought it was 'be moist & quiet'. To this day, when one of us wants the other to shut up, we'll say 'Be moist!' That's hilarious!
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Post by Miss Ang on Aug 8, 2014 11:28:15 GMT
When I was a child my mom used to say, "It looks like a tornado hit it!" when referring to a messy room. I always thought she was saying, "It looks like a tornadohitit" and always wondered what a 'tornadohitit' actually was but never did ask. At some point in my early 20's I went to repeat the same phrase and realized the expression meant the room was so messy that it looked like a tornado hit it. Duh! So glad I never asked anyone! ETA: Recently I was singing Dark Horse by Katy Perry and I thought the line that says "So you want to play with matches" was "So you want to play with magic". My daughter's friend thought it was hilarious!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 11:28:54 GMT
I've heard "It's a doggy dog world" (instead of dog eat dog.)
I have a friend who is famous for her malapropisms -- rutabaga instead of Winnebago and vanilla folder instead of manila folder were my two favorites.
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Post by lbp on Aug 8, 2014 12:26:17 GMT
I had a friend who insisted, regardless of what the box says, that the colored wax sticks you color with are called "crowns" not crayons! She would even write the word crown.
I also used to sing "hark said Harold the angel, sing" You know that angel named Harold!
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Post by picotjo on Aug 8, 2014 13:04:51 GMT
I remember singing lyrics incorrectly though. Many of them. When my sister was little she used to sing Holy Insects instead of Holy Infant in Silent Night!
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Post by alibama on Aug 8, 2014 13:34:00 GMT
These are so funny
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Post by grammyj64 on Aug 8, 2014 14:44:14 GMT
I have a friend who recently referred to a downpour as a "frog swoggler." I've always heard it "frog strangler," and that phrase is in the urban dictionary. Wondering if frog swoggler is a regional variation. Has anyone ever heard it? My friend is from the northeast US.
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Post by akathy on Aug 8, 2014 14:51:20 GMT
I have several friends who call a bonfire a bomb fire. Drives me crazy!!
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