Common mistakes or misnomers

[Ronstein]

My SiL and her eldest daughter are notorious for these.

To the TV Engineer: "also, the video player won't ejaculate" (he didn't hang around to fix it!!)

Prosecco - Proscecco

Pavlova - Pavilovi

Bendicks (mints) - Benedicts

Physillis - Syphilis

etc. etc.

[glenrobbo]

Desecrated coconut.

[Chubbyross]

glenrobbo said:

Desecrated coconut.

Brilliant!

[1000 Miglia]

shih tzu faced said:

Also St. Pancreas Station; my missus is incapable of calling it anything else

This was a spelling error for a regular delivery I used to do , no amount of pointing it out would make the office staff

correct the error , it really annoyed me .

Shows what a shambles I walked away from .

[Doofus]

Thirty years ago, I worked for a company in Birmingham, and we had a site in Accrington, Lancashire.

One of the secretaries, even if audio-typing, would always write 'Accrington Stanley'.

[boyse7en]

Doofus said:

One of the secretaries, even if audio-typing, would always write 'Accrington Stanley'.

Never heard of it...

[DoctorX]

boyse7en said:

Never heard of it...

Eggs-acckkk-ly

[BrokenSkunk]

Lotus Esprit Turbo, when people mean Lotus Turbo Esprit. (They are two different cars.)

[motco]

You can buy these to smarten up steel wheels. Rim embellishers.



A chap I knew always called them 'rim blemishers'

[littleredrooster]

Plymo said:

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Ooo!! Another common mistake! It's actually 'A little learning is a dangerous thing' but almost everyone gets it wrong.

https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic%20Poems/Pope...

[Whats on Second]

nellie pledge would oft say when hungry that she was " absolutely ravishing ".

one of the freesat retro channels is showing the rarely seen Nearest and Dearest.

[Red 5]

Colleague of mine used to refer to engines as ‘Aspirated’
He said it more like ‘Asper8id’ though.
He liked to enthusiastically talk about car, but knew close to nothing.

He absolutely refused to discuss the difference between naturally aspirated and forced induction.
To this day I’ve no idea what he meant!

[lornemalvo]

Prostrate gland

[knotweed]

Nissan hut.

[Mr Penguin]

glenrobbo said:

Desecrated coconut.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/6rr6ay/tifu_by_cumming_into_a_coconut/

In case you can't tell from the link, NSFL.

[Mabbs9]

An ex of mine was keen to visit the Sixteen Chapel.

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

We must touch cloth in the future is not the same as touch base.

[Tyre Smoke]

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey said:

We must touch cloth in the future is not the same as touch base.

I laughed way too much at this. Should be in the juvenile things thread.

[HD Adam]

lornemalvo said:

Prostrate gland

This reminds me of my old shop foreman. That's what he called it.

We used to have to go for medicals every 2 years.
Our foreman wasn't the sharpest pencil in the box & was also a bit of a hypochondriac.

At his medical whilst waiting, he was reading an old Womans Realm or something & there was an article on getting your hubby to go & get his Prostate checked.

At the end of the medical, the Dr asked him if there was anything else & he said he thought he might have an enlarged Prostate Gland & could it be checked.

When he came back & regaled us with this story, his punchline was "I thought all your glands were in your neck"

[lornemalvo]

Whats on Second said:

nellie pledge would oft say when hungry that she was " absolutely ravishing ".

one of the freesat retro channels is showing the rarely seen Nearest and Dearest.

In addition to "I must get a little hand put on this watch" and "you haven't had the pleasure of me yet, have you?" Pure class and I am convinced there were more genuinely funny lines and more wit in the older comedies like Steptoe etc.