Really ?????

garlic bread

Some of these are very funny and so true!

One that always make me laugh is in condolence messages when it's said 'she/he is with the angles' ..... usually see this on Facebook. I often feel like replying is that right angles or obtuse?

Just realised it doesn't reflect too well on me that I'm laughing at condolence messages 😅

xper

I was on tender hooks waiting for new posts in this tread. It had seemably run its curse. But I seen todays new posts just their now and hear we are being put through the ringer again

Capt'n Midnight

Poor old Lady Mondegreen

blackcard

He walked passed the shop

amacca

"That person wants to have their cake and eat it too" is incorrect but has been around for so long few seem aware the correct statement (which btw makes much more sense) is

That person wants to eat their cake and have it too

Gets under my skin when a Brendan O'Connor type uses it incorrectly as they comment on and "facilitate" debate ....

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118797199#Comment_118797199

Ive encountered that repeatedly on whatsapp groups....its not just morons that do this, sometimes people just copy a moron that heard it and typed it out without understanding.

blackcard

OP. What I meant this thread to be above is where people use a word in a written sentence which, if spoken, would sound identical or very similar to that word but has a different meaning

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118873642#Comment_118873642

Usage decides what is "correct". The newer variant is now far more common. And your "correct" version, is derived from much earlier versions.

Wikipedia.

An early recording of the phrase is in a letter on 14 March 1538 from Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, to Thomas Cromwell, as "a man can not have his cake and eat his cake". The phrase occurs with the clauses reversed in John Heywood's A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue from 1546, as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?". In John Davies's Scourge of Folly of 1611, the same order is used, as "A man cannot eat his cake and haue it stil."

mrslancaster

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FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058237558/really

You are shite at de poetry Bono!

spurious

U sed you liked it anal.

,,meant to be 'and all'. Fly high wit de angles anal.

Mister Vain

Could you be a bit more pacific?

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118873923#Comment_118873923

Would you agree it makes much more sense to state it in order of eating first and then expecting to have it afterwards.....given the meaning of the phrase?.....just curious, I have a bee in my bonnet about it, of course if I have my cake I expect to eat it....but eating it and expecting to still have it afterwards really transmits the meaning of the phrase.

Re: usage deciding what is "correct"......agreed, that is part of how a language evolves over time I presume? .....maybe it will be common to be Pacific in the future and that will be "correct" and all, sorry I did of course mean to type anal there!

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118797182#Comment_118797182

Perhaps they share their (there) shoes !

blackcard

There is know where to hide

blackcard

He had a morale obligation

blackcard

Fair juice or fair do's or fair dews or fair jews or fair duece or fair dues. One of these is correct

sam t smith

Tread is quiet a damn squid.

blackcard

Per say instead of per se

Feisar

No holes barred, it's no holds barred.

Feisar

An ex of mine used to say come hell or hot water.

standardg60

This thread has gone into Unchartered territory

dxhound2005

It's a bit of mind field, verging on a pantomine.