Common mistakes or misnomers

[Dr Jekyll]

RAC Club.

[Funky Squirrel]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I’m liking pac code, PIN number and atm machine!

However as some words have different meanings it does make sense and is easier to understand in the spoken word.

[boyse7en]

paulguitar said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Saying something is a 'moot point' to imply it's irrelevant rather than debateable. If something is a moot point then it might be exactly the point you need to discuss to settle the issue.

Sometimes amusing referred to as a 'mute point'.

You really can't debate a mute point.


I remember watching a Dave Gorman show where he did a piece about how people thought that "like a bull in a china shop" meant someone very quiet and careful, rather than someone causing havoc and destruction.

[bucksmanuk]

boyse7en said:

I remember watching a Dave Gorman show where he did a piece about how people thought that "like a bull in a china shop" meant someone very quiet and careful, rather than someone causing havoc and destruction.

The juries out on this one, OK, its not a shop, but it's not quite the "havoc and destruction" one would have originally assumed....
https://youtu.be/unXVAfbA_xs

[Dr Jekyll]

bucksmanuk said:

The juries out on this one, OK, its not a shop, but it's not quite the "havoc and destruction" one would have originally assumed....
https://youtu.be/unXVAfbA_xs

'jury's out' or 'jury is out' please.

[cobra kid]

boyse7en said:

You really can't debate a mute point.


I remember watching a Dave Gorman show where he did a piece about how people thought that "like a bull in a china shop" meant someone very quiet and careful, rather than someone causing havoc and destruction.

A guy at work uses "like a bull in a chip shop" with no hint of irony or knowledge of the mistake.

[Trenchard]

DickyC said:

Scalectrix

Not quite as bad a 'Scalelectrix'.

[andy_s]

cobra kid said:

boyse7en said:

You really can't debate a mute point.


I remember watching a Dave Gorman show where he did a piece about how people thought that "like a bull in a china shop" meant someone very quiet and careful, rather than someone causing havoc and destruction.

A guy at work uses "like a bull in a chip shop" with no hint of irony or knowledge of the mistake.

It's water under the fridge my friend, let it go.

[Trenchard]

Louis Balfour said:

I think "Hoist with his own retard" is more appropriate where come posters are concerned.

Well, I don't know why I got the whoosh Polly? but I do know this.
The root of the word petard is from the mid - 16th century French 'péter' (verb) to fart.

[Dr Jekyll]

cobra kid said:

A guy at work uses "like a bull in a chip shop" with no hint of irony or knowledge of the mistake.

I like that, I'm going to use it. Almost as good as 'we'll burn that bridge when we come to it'.

[andy_s]

Trenchard said:

Louis Balfour said:

I think "Hoist with his own retard" is more appropriate where come posters are concerned.

Well, I don't know why I got the whoosh Polly? but I do know this.
The root of the word petard is from the mid - 16th century French 'péter' (verb) to fart.

I remember looking up 'fart' in an old dictionary when I was a kid: 'small explosion between the legs'

[matchmaker]

Trenchard said:

DickyC said:

Scalectrix

Not quite as bad a 'Scalelectrix'.

Or "Asterix" instead of "Asterisk".

[Tyre Smoke]

matchmaker said:

Trenchard said:

DickyC said:

Scalectrix

Not quite as bad a 'Scalelectrix'.

Or "Asterix" instead of "Asterisk".

The Gaul of them!

[Trenchard]

cobra kid said:

A guy at work uses "like a bull in a chip shop" with no hint of irony or knowledge of the mistake.

I wonder if he knows that the world is his lobster.

[ClaphamGT3]

Trenchard said:

I wonder if he knows that the world is his lobster.

So much spilt milk under the bridge

[droopsnoot]

matchmaker said:

Or "Asterix" instead of "Asterisk".

Particularly annoying when it's a government body that just can't be bothered getting it right.

[Evoluzione]

Funky Squirrel said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

I’m liking pac code, PIN number and atm machine!

However as some words have different meanings it does make sense and is easier to understand in the spoken word.

Indeed, does she do ATM?

[anonymous-user]

Johnspex said:

Mr Spoon said:

PAT Testing
MOT Test
Gas pedal
Put toast in the toaster
Im going to boil the kettle
Run a bath
One off

What's wrong with 'one off'?

Baths have been run since before I was small and I'm nearly 70.

care to explain the definition of 'one off'?


just because something has been done since the 70s doesn't make it right.

[The spinner of plates]

ClaphamGT3 said:

Trenchard said:

I wonder if he knows that the world is his lobster.

So much spilt milk under the bridge

No point crying over the horse has already bolted.

[Red 5]

I hate hearing AWACS early warning systems.

‘Train Station’ and ‘Wing Mirror’ has always annoyed me.

Union Jack!

Dolby Sound Surround!

Edited by Red 5 on Friday 13th May 20:21