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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Dj Stiggie


    A girl said to me yesterday, 'Right I'll go to Maynooth while you hold the fork!'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭civis_liberalis


    I say tomayto, you say tomahto.
    I say potayto you, say potahtoh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭wireless101


    My brother once said: "No point in beating around the bandwagon." :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    My neighbour's husband used regularly take the computer flight between Dublin and Cork. The same woman never liked to cast nasturtiums on anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Little Acorn



    My cousin thinks that he's 'not the sharpest pencil in the toolbox'.

    He's not wrong.
    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Gang of Gin


    mathepac wrote: »
    Cloak and dagger - spies, double-dealing, subterfuge, nefarious deeds, that sort of stuff.

    Upset the apple tart (should be apple cart)
    Wet my appetite (should be "whet" or sharpen my appetite)
    I should of, a firm favourite on boards.ie (I should have)

    Honcho is from the Japanese han = head + cho = team, giving team head or leader

    (sorry some replied to already - web connection is like treacle today)


    Ahh, you beat me to it! Was gonna reference Boards too.
    Hostipal - probably something a child would say but I've heard it from adults.
    Some idiot I had the misfortune of being in his company referred to the Kray brothers as the 'Craze' Brothers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    face1990 wrote: »
    Or viola instead of voila.
    When I was much, much younger I always confused those too. I remember reading something where the author said something about going to the zoo "... and voila!"; I always wondered why he was suddenly talking about violins. I used to say 'pictureskew' instead of 'picturesque' because I'd only ever seen it written down.

    Ah, the stupidity of youth.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 433 ✭✭Gang of Gin


    Another one of those is 'chow' instead of ciao...

    Also, the word 'undoubtably' instead of 'undoubtedly'. Though in fairness, 'undoubtably' doesn't sound particularly wrong, except for the pretty glaring fact that it is.

    People need to be escorted forcibly from the word 'penultimate' also. "That was, like, the penultimate sandwich!" Oh? Is it? When's the final one coming then?

    My cousin thinks that he's 'not the sharpest pencil in the toolbox'.

    He's not wrong.

    Indubitably:pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 506 ✭✭✭McConkey


    taking to something like a fish to water :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 509 ✭✭✭anndub


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Well theres a song that I always sing and dunno the words, ye know the one

    "my love has got no money, he's got his trombeleeze..."

    WTF is a trombeleeze???!!!!!!:confused:

    Strong beliefs. Dunno why Im admitting to knowing that


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    I love this thread. It's nice to know that so many other people are as petty and pedantic as I am about these things.

    One of my favourite things to do is, while having a row with someone, correct them on all these mistakes. Rage ensues. From them. I just laugh, safe in the knowledge that if they wrote this sentence, rage would have issued.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,258 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    These are typed ones I've seen...

    "Here, here", when what they mean is "hear, hear".

    "Wallah", when what they mean is "voila".

    I've also seen something like "what does this mean in Lehman's terms?" (layman's terms)
    enda1 wrote: »
    No problem with the double negatives for me.
    At least English is logical in that sense. Two negatives make a positive as confusing as it may be to remember how many negatives are in a sentence and therefore the message.

    I couldn't fail to disagree with you less.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    These threads are the vein of my existence! :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭Ramza


    For all intensive purposes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Chimley or chimbley. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,522 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    It doesn't really bother me words not being said or written correctly. Language forever evolves over time and if certain ways of saying things become widespread and popular enough then they enter the language.


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