[Duma]

I'm speculating, but maybe from catheads?

[A Jooser]

I think you guys are talking at cross porpoises.

[Will Hunt]

Worth a bump. Today I saw an advert on Facebook Marketplace for a second-hand Michael Wave: a box with a turntable that heats up food.

 

[Oldmanmatt]

Shit!

Thats generally done in the heads. I'm sure thats a plural - no idea why.... OMM?

Because they were usually at the head of the ship, or bow (not bows, though it might be a fleet engagement). The Officers being accommodated aft of the mast (or Main Mast if more than one (also referred to as the “After Guard”)), sailors accommodated forward of the mast (hence phrases such as “20 years before the mast etc). So, the shit was as far from the Officers as could be arranged.
Amusingly enough, though, the Poop deck, was aft...

[cowboyhat]

Wife, (not native), showed me this on the nursery whatsapp group, (provenance of other woman unknown), talking about chicken pox:

Yes we need to 'per pear' for them all getting it

she had added the quotes in the message so not autocorrect

[Fultonius]

Mum came up with "faffle" today - faff & hassle.  She was convinced it existed.

[mrjonathanr]

  It does now.

[moose]

I've used "squalitude" (squalid solitude) to describe my more dissolute phases.  With lock-down and WFH, it's a portmanteau that I suspect now has more general application!

[Will Hunt]

My wife once used the word lumbersome, which I asserted was a made up portmanteau of cumbersome and lumbering. A vigorous dispute ensued. Imagine my disappointment to learn it is actually a word.

[SA Chris]

on that subject, my daughter loves huggles. Who can resist.

[Oldmanmatt]

My step daughter is named Lily.
Her mum is not even slightly religious, nor interested at all in anything similar.
Lily was 3 when I moved in. Her mum often called her “Bub Bubs”.
But, frequently, “Le-el-zee-bub”.

Which I, of course, misheard.
However, given the tantrums, I felt “Prince of Hell” wasn’t inappropriate.

Took me far too long to realise her mum had no idea who Beelzebub was.

[NaoB]

Spotted this corker on the other channel today:

"more people travelling just a bit further, especially to honeypots, sends a signal to everyone else that it’s fine (socially acceptable) to do what you like.  That creates a snowboard effect."

Sounds exciting!

[Fultonius]

Spotted this corker on the other channel today:

"more people travelling just a bit further, especially to honeypots, sends a signal to everyone else that it’s fine (socially acceptable) to do what you like.  That creates a snowboard effect."

Sounds exciting!

I'm trying to picture a "snowboard effect". Thinking spliffs, beanies, baggy pants (although I think the cool kids these days are rocking skinnies?).

Or maybe everyone gets out their cars, then sits in the middle of the path tying their shoelaces?

(I'm allowed to take the piss, I've snowboarded for years, when I'm not skiing)

[SA Chris]

Maybe people not used to bouldering on steep ground and ending up sliding downhill on their pads?

[Will Hunt]

My wife told me yesterday that one of her work colleagues is a "phantom of knowledge".

[SA Chris]

beautiful.

[SamT]

Not quite an Eggcorn, but a member of staff texted he was 'shitting through an ivory needle' the other week, calling in sick (again  )

We suggested he'd miss quoted and he was insitant it was 'nah its Nottingham Slang'.  I think not.   

[Will Hunt]

Brilliant. Definitely an eggcorn.

Unless of course they're referring to the well-known biblical verse: it is easier for a midlander to shit through an ivory needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

[Will Hunt]

"Bare in mind", they said.

"Yes", I thought.

[Durbs]

My other half only learned in her 30s that it's "baubles" not "ball-balls" that you hang on Christmas trees.

[Johnny Brown]

"Bare in mind", they said.

"Yes", I thought.

Am I missing something? How do you know they were spelling it wrong in their head?

[Will Hunt]

"Bare in mind", they said.

"Yes", I thought.

Am I missing something? How do you know they were spelling it wrong in their head?

I haven't been entirely truthful. It was written, not spoken.

[GazM]

Our 5 year old has been a source of some beautiful Eggcorns in recent years.
"Water-tall" for waterfall, which it is, obviously.
"Heart beep" for heartbeat.
And my favourite: "frogs-born" for frogspawn.

[SA Chris]

All perfectly sensible.

[Scouse D]

My 4 yo daughter keeps going to her room for a "Piece of Quiet"
Lovely stuff