Montannie
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Aug 14, 2014 16:05:18 GMT
Post by Montannie on Aug 14, 2014 16:05:18 GMT
Thanks for the link. Very interesting. No one can say English is static.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:12:34 GMT
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Post by jennyap on Aug 14, 2014 16:12:34 GMT
My husband and I fight about this all the time. He says THING, I say THINK. To me, thing doesn't make sense. What "thing" do you have coming? "If June thinks I'm paying for all that, she's got another think coming" See how think follows think? How does thing make any sense there? We're both Midwestern, btw. In this case the "thing" June has coming is you not paying, which is different than the thing she thinks is coming i.e. you paying.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:18:30 GMT
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Post by myshelly on Aug 14, 2014 16:18:30 GMT
My husband and I fight about this all the time. He says THING, I say THINK. To me, thing doesn't make sense. What "thing" do you have coming? "If June thinks I'm paying for all that, she's got another think coming" See how think follows think? How does thing make any sense there? We're both Midwestern, btw. To me think does not make sense at all. How can you have a think coming? A think is something that is inside your head. It can't come anywhere. It can't come out of your head and go to someone else. Another thing coming means you think one thing is going to happen, but another thing happens instead.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:28:56 GMT
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Post by melanell on Aug 14, 2014 16:28:56 GMT
My husband and I fight about this all the time. He says THING, I say THINK. To me, thing doesn't make sense. What "thing" do you have coming? I always figured "thing" meant something like surprise, shock, etc. If you think you'll get away with this, you will be surprised or shocked to find out that isn't the case. That kind of thing.
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scrappyesq
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Aug 14, 2014 16:32:18 GMT
Post by scrappyesq on Aug 14, 2014 16:32:18 GMT
I must come from a place where the usage is 'thing'. Never even heard of think.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:34:44 GMT
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Post by phoenixcov on Aug 14, 2014 16:34:44 GMT
A new one for the mix, my Nan used to say " you can think again" then the use of think makes sense. Otherwise I still say thing.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:39:52 GMT
Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 16:39:52 GMT
Judas Priest has it right. People actually say "think"?! I've never heard that! That's so grammatically incorrect it would hurt my eardrums if I heard it aloud...like nails on a chalkboard This. I have lived in the Seattle area all of my life and only heard "thing." I think if I heard "think" in this context, I'd think it was wrong.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:05:11 GMT
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Post by Zee on Aug 14, 2014 17:05:11 GMT
You "thing"ers are all wrong. In any case, I could care less. (That'll start a whole new discussion!)
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Aug 14, 2014 17:26:48 GMT
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Post by padresfan619 on Aug 14, 2014 17:26:48 GMT
Yea it is definitely "thing."
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Aug 14, 2014 18:07:17 GMT
Post by mandolyn9909 on Aug 14, 2014 18:07:17 GMT
Thing for sure. I have never heard anyone say "think".
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Aug 14, 2014 18:09:38 GMT
Post by 5peanutsnana on Aug 14, 2014 18:09:38 GMT
Born and raised is Ohio and around here, it is think! I am old and have never heard anyone say thing.
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georgiapea
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Aug 14, 2014 18:16:10 GMT
Post by georgiapea on Aug 14, 2014 18:16:10 GMT
It's think, not thing. Thing makes no sense whatsoever. The entire phrase is "If you think thus and so (an example would be 'the world revolves around you') then you've got another think coming". Try that with 'thing' and see how obviously wrong it is.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:19:38 GMT
Post by fairycat on Aug 14, 2014 18:19:38 GMT
It's always been thing for me. I've lived on the east coast, the west coast, the mid west, and now the south : ) Ditto for me except I lived Midwest before west coast
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Aug 14, 2014 18:21:07 GMT
Post by loco coco on Aug 14, 2014 18:21:07 GMT
always heard thinG
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Aug 14, 2014 18:25:52 GMT
Post by krc11 on Aug 14, 2014 18:25:52 GMT
Thing. I have never heard it as "think." Except here on the peas. To me, to have "another think" coming is like saying "learn me" instead of teach me. Think is a verb, not a noun. I don't have "thinks". I have thoughts or I actively think (again if needed).
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Aug 14, 2014 18:25:49 GMT
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Post by gar on Aug 14, 2014 18:25:49 GMT
Thing for me, south uk.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:30:12 GMT
Post by melanell on Aug 14, 2014 18:30:12 GMT
This thread has me recalling the Pixar short "Boundin'" about the jackalope...."Seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think."
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Post by JustTricia on Aug 14, 2014 18:38:53 GMT
It's think, not thing. Thing makes no sense whatsoever. The entire phrase is "If you think thus and so (an example would be 'the world revolves around you') then you've got another think coming". Try that with 'thing' and see how obviously wrong it is. And to me your explanation as to why it's "think" makes no sense. "If you think the world revolves around you, someTHING is going to happen to prove you wrong." And until that thing happens, why would you have to think again? But, it all boils down to region. Nobody in this situation is right or wrong, we're all both.
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Aug 14, 2014 18:42:11 GMT
Post by rodeomom on Aug 14, 2014 18:42:11 GMT
Thing! I have never heard it said "think" that sounds very strange to me.
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Aug 14, 2014 19:50:01 GMT
Post by genny on Aug 14, 2014 19:50:01 GMT
Think. I'm in Georgia. I'll be honest I always thought it was thing growing up until I saw the old Alice in Wonderland movie that had Sammy Davis Jr in it as the caterpillar and he said it as 'think' and enunciated it very clearly (at least I remember it that way). I asked my mom (a librarian & teacher) and she confirmed that it's 'think' not thing.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:14:01 GMT
Post by Dani-Mani on Aug 14, 2014 20:14:01 GMT
Thing and I've lived in the East, South, West, and Midwest.
Like many have said, you can't have a "think"--it doesn't make a lick of sense to me.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:18:17 GMT
Post by MerryMom on Aug 14, 2014 20:18:17 GMT
It's "think" The full phrase is "if you think x, you've got another think coming." Wiktionary notes on usage: This expression is used as a rebuke, often in constructions similar to "If X thinks that Y, he/she has another think coming!" Sometimes the word got is included, in the familiar constructions has got and have got, as "(someone)'s got another think coming", "they've/you've got another think coming". The form to have another thing coming is often seen, and may have been aided by a mishearing of the /k/ of think blended with the /k/ of coming, making think sound like thing. grammarist.com/usage/another-think-coming/Except for the Judas Priest song...
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Aug 14, 2014 20:22:17 GMT
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Post by georgiapea on Aug 14, 2014 20:22:17 GMT
You've got another think coming is just a dirivitive of you can just think again.
Proof of this is easily understood by substituting thing. If you think the world revolves around you, you can just thing again. Nobody can possibly question how wrong that sentence would be. I'm sure 'thing' began being used by people who did not understand what they were hearing.
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Aug 14, 2014 20:33:29 GMT
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Post by elaine on Aug 14, 2014 20:33:29 GMT
You've got another think coming is just a dirivitive of you can just think again. Proof of this is easily understood by substituting thing. If you think the world revolves around you, you can just thing again. Nobody can possibly question how wrong that sentence would be. I'm sure 'thing' began being used by people who did not understand what they were hearing. But the saying is NOT "you can just think/thing again," it is "you have another thing coming" and, to me, think makes no sense in that clause. If you think the world revolves around you (this idea/belief is the first thing), you have another thing coming (something that proves you are NOT the center of the world). When you are arguing with someone, do you say "and another thing, your idioms are weird!" or do you say "and another think, your idioms are weird!" If you wouldn't use "think" in this case, I don't understand why you would use it in the first.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 20:39:26 GMT
Sorry but even after hearing all the explanations think makes less sense than ever. Always thing. Lol.
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Aug 14, 2014 21:37:56 GMT
Post by 1lear on Aug 14, 2014 21:37:56 GMT
Thing for me-until this thread, I'd never heard/read think. Very interesting!
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Aug 14, 2014 22:14:51 GMT
Post by cecelia on Aug 14, 2014 22:14:51 GMT
I'm on the east coast and always assumed seeing it written as "think" was a common typo. I've only said it as "thing". (Even then, I accidentally typed think and had to change it to 'g'.)
Then again, I come from a culture where "fuhgeddaboudit" is perfectly appropriate for a street sign.
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Aug 15, 2014 1:20:38 GMT
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Aug 15, 2014 2:55:25 GMT
Post by Prenticekid on Aug 15, 2014 2:55:25 GMT
There is an implied first thing - what the person thought the outcome would be. She thought she was going to get something (out of taking someone else's credit), but the other person is going to keep her from getting it and she's going to get another thing, not the outcome she wanted.
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Aug 15, 2014 4:18:18 GMT
Post by betty on Aug 15, 2014 4:18:18 GMT
I have only ever heard and said "THINK". I've lived in the South my whole life. My MIL is a Yankee and she says "THINK" also. One of the few things we agree on.
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