25 phrases you're saying wrong

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I love this. Almost every one of these drives me insane when I hear it used incorrectly.

www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/25-common-phrases-that-youre-saying-wrong.html

[Dorothy Zbornak]

I think I've read this before, and I still think #4 is bullshit:

4: You’ve got another thing coming vs. You’ve got another think coming

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Aug 7, 2013 8:26:07 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

I think I've read this before, and I still think #4 is bullshit:

4: You’ve got another thing coming vs. You’ve got another think coming

This is the one I questioned too. It just doesn't sound right.

[bean47]

I'm terrible with phrases and mix stiff up all the time. My H gives me such crap about it

[lauranicole91]

Hahaha. Most of those drive me insane also. A couple I am or was guilty of at some point. And a few I've never even heard of. Haha.

Can we talk about "it's hit or miss" vs "it's hit and miss" ??

[katfco]

For number 25, brother in laws is correct when it's the possessive: my brother-in-law's car.

But yeah, I hear these things all the time. For me, though, the one that bugs me the most is when people use me as the subject of a sentence. Lately I've been correcting Abby because she frequently says "Me and Grandma are going to do X."

Here in Ohio, it seems common for people to use the word "whenever" when they really mean "when" and it drives me nuts because I can't figure out if they're talking about something that happened just once or several times. Like, "In college, whenever I took this class..."

[lauranicole91]

Another one I'm curious about is the use of real and really.

"Oh man, I have to go pee real bad" it always bugs me but maybe I'm wrong.(I always thought it should be "really" in that case).

[mala]

These bug me when I hear/read them. I don't understand how people get them wrong so often.

I'm guilty of number 4 though. "If you think ___, then you have another THINK coming" still doesn't sound right. But there really is no future form of think. This drives me batty.

[katfco]

Aug 7, 2013 8:46:08 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Another one I'm curious about is the use of real and really.

"Oh man, I have to go pee real bad" it always bugs me but maybe I'm wrong.(I always thought it should be "really" in that case).

Technically it should be badly, but really or very bad(ly) is better than real bad.

[mala]

Aug 7, 2013 8:46:08 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Another one I'm curious about is the use of real and really.

"Oh man, I have to go pee real bad" it always bugs me but maybe I'm wrong.(I always thought it should be "really" in that case).

Real=tangable. Actually exists. Really=adverb. You are correct, "real bad" is incorrect.

[mala]

Aug 7, 2013 8:35:19 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Hahaha. Most of those drive me insane also. A couple I am or was guilty of at some point. And a few I've never even heard of. Haha.

Can we talk about "it's hit or miss" vs "it's hit and miss" ??

Hit and miss doesn't even make sense!

[raynes]

#6 bothers me a lot. I've seen that one around here.
#9 good/well is one we correct BIL's gf on alllllll the time.

Also? When people say "I seen". It's "I saw" or "I have seen".

[lauranicole91]

Aug 7, 2013 8:50:11 GMT -5 katfco said:

Aug 7, 2013 8:46:08 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Another one I'm curious about is the use of real and really.

"Oh man, I have to go pee real bad" it always bugs me but maybe I'm wrong.(I always thought it should be "really" in that case).

Technically it should be badly, but really or very bad(ly) is better than real bad.

True. Another example of something I've heard would be "that cake was real good". Ugh. Good to know I'm not just dumb.

[raynes]

Aug 7, 2013 8:47:49 GMT -5 mala said:

These bug me when I hear/read them. I don't understand how people get them wrong so often.

I'm guilty of number 4 though. "If you think ___, then you have another THINK coming" still doesn't sound right. But there really is no future form of think. This drives me batty.

I feel like "thought" would be more appropriate in that case??

To me "you've got another thing coming" is just an entirely different phrase.

[raynes]

Aug 7, 2013 8:35:19 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Hahaha. Most of those drive me insane also. A couple I am or was guilty of at some point. And a few I've never even heard of. Haha.

Can we talk about "it's hit or miss" vs "it's hit and miss" ??

I think this one depends on context? 

[SteelCity44]

"He did good" makes my eye twitch.

[mala]

Aug 7, 2013 8:55:03 GMT -5 raynes said:

Aug 7, 2013 8:47:49 GMT -5 mala said:

These bug me when I hear/read them. I don't understand how people get them wrong so often.

I'm guilty of number 4 though. "If you think ___, then you have another THINK coming" still doesn't sound right. But there really is no future form of think. This drives me batty.

I feel like "thought" would be more appropriate in that case??

To me "you've got another thing coming" is just an entirely different phrase.

I agree, "thought" sounds better, but it is the past tense of think, and the sentence is refering to a future action, so "thought" is incorrect. When you think about it, "think" really only has a present and a past form, there is no future tense. We can modify it with "going to [think]" (very few English verbs have future tenses, we just modify them all to suit), but that doesn't work in this case. In the phrase, think is actually being used as a noun (which is a whole other issue) and you can't modify a noun that way. There is just no grammatical way to construct that phrase, no matter what way you look at it.

[mumegs]

Aug 7, 2013 8:55:03 GMT -5 raynes said:

Aug 7, 2013 8:47:49 GMT -5 mala said:

These bug me when I hear/read them. I don't understand how people get them wrong so often.

I'm guilty of number 4 though. "If you think ___, then you have another THINK coming" still doesn't sound right. But there really is no future form of think. This drives me batty.

I feel like "thought" would be more appropriate in that case??

To me "you've got another thing coming" is just an entirely different phrase.

This is what I was thinking, you wouldn't say someone has a think, they have a thought.

[raynes]

Aug 7, 2013 9:04:41 GMT -5 mala said:

Aug 7, 2013 8:55:03 GMT -5 raynes said:

I feel like "thought" would be more appropriate in that case??

To me "you've got another thing coming" is just an entirely different phrase.

I agree, "thought" sounds better, but it is the past tense of think, and the sentence is refering to a future action, so "thought" is incorrect. When you think about it, "think" really only has a present and a past form, there is no future tense. We can modify it with "going to [think]" (very few English verbs have future tenses, we just modify them all to suit), but that doesn't work in this case. In the phrase, think is actually being used as a noun (which is a whole other issue) and you can't modify a noun that way. There is just no grammatical way to construct that phrase, no matter what way you look at it.

Huh!  Very interesting. 

[mala]

Aug 7, 2013 9:19:04 GMT -5 raynes said:

Aug 7, 2013 9:04:41 GMT -5 mala said:

I agree, "thought" sounds better, but it is the past tense of think, and the sentence is refering to a future action, so "thought" is incorrect. When you think about it, "think" really only has a present and a past form, there is no future tense. We can modify it with "going to [think]" (very few English verbs have future tenses, we just modify them all to suit), but that doesn't work in this case. In the phrase, think is actually being used as a noun (which is a whole other issue) and you can't modify a noun that way. There is just no grammatical way to construct that phrase, no matter what way you look at it.

Huh!  Very interesting. 

I'm still thinking about this. "Thought" is a noun as well as the past tense. So why don't we use it in this case? Gah! This is totally a grammar mind bender!

[bigapple]

Aug 7, 2013 9:01:52 GMT -5 SteelCity44 said:

"He did good" makes my eye twitch.

I dumped a guy for saying "he done good."  He was also guilty of "irregardless" and "coulda cared less."

[bigapple]

Aug 7, 2013 8:54:35 GMT -5 lauranicole91 said:

Aug 7, 2013 8:50:11 GMT -5 katfco said:

Technically it should be badly, but really or very bad(ly) is better than real bad.

True. Another example of something I've heard would be "that cake was real good". Ugh. Good to know I'm not just dumb.

I want a hot dog real bad. 

[rxbeth]

I had a teacher (Pharm D) who ALWAYS said 'irregardless'. I believe she was latino and always rolled her r's so it was really long and drawn out and I loved the way she said it. Didn't make it any more of a word.