My brother would sometimes refer to his wife as 'my first wife'. She didn't find it funny.
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases
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My brother would sometimes refer to his wife as 'my first wife'. She didn't find it funny.
Thanks, sounds reasonable!
Another peeve. I say "mum" and spell it "mum." Most people say "mum." Why has the "mom" spelling caught on?
It is run amok.
Is it splitting image or spitting image? To me splitting image means that if you think a person is the image of another, then it would be like splitting the person in two. What has spitting to do with it? I so often hear people use the term spitting image.
I think the spelling Mom is used more frequently than Mum. Probably comes from the word Mother where the o is used rather than the u
I looked it up, but couldn't find anything definitive. But, I did learn an equivalent phrase in Norwegian is - "som snytt ut av nesen paa" ("as blown out of the nose of")
A few surprising ones. Apparently, it's not "card shark" but rather "card sharp"
Wait till my poker buddies hear this!!! 8O
Wait till my poker buddies hear this!!! 8O
It's on that site I posted the link to. I always thought it was splitting image.
spitting image spit and image The very spit of someone is an exact likeness. "The spit and image" or "spit image" emphasizes the exactness.
spit definition | Dictionary.com
—Idiom 13. spit and image. Also, spitting image, spit 'n' image. Informal . exact likeness; counterpart: Hunched over his desk, pen in hand, he was the spit and image of his father at work.
Some are kinda funny! I would seriously have to ridicule a friend or coworker if they pronounced things like "bob wire" as opposed to "barb wire".
Or "bidness" instead of "business"... :lol:
Or "bidness" instead of "business"... :lol:
As I remember as a kid it was always "mum", just the way it sounds, I see "mom" became fashionable in the 50s and 60s, probably as a result of watching too much American T.V.
In New York, it's any word that ends in the letters ths such as youths. Invariably these are pronounced yutes or yoofs.
What strikes me is that language is not a concrete entity. It is ever changing, constantly on the move. Things that have become perfectly well ingrained in our language were likely these exact same sources of annoyance. Take 'alright' for example. It gets used a lot now, despite being not quite 'all right'.
Spade:
I am so impressed that you not only took the time to look it up and I am especially impressed that since you could not find anything definitive, you went to all the trouble of finding an equivalent phrase meaning "as blown out of the nose of"! Thank you so very much but please - you really don't need to go to so much trouble next time. The phrase "I don't know" would have been just fine! ;-):lol::lol::lol::lol: