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Who says "think" in that context?!? They should be clobbered if they do it on purpose and not as part of an accent!
The grammatically correct way to say it would be "you've got another thought coming". Never heard the 'think' version, it just sounds so completely batshit stupid to me.
Wiktionary appears to have references supporting 'think:' http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/have_another_think_coming
Personally, though - I prefer the sound of 'thing' in the fairly idiomatic phrase. Idioms are silly enough anyway that it's worth just going with whatever feels better (frex, it also lists references of 'another think a-comin'' which sounds almost pitifully silly).
Personally, though - I prefer the sound of 'thing' in the fairly idiomatic phrase. Idioms are silly enough anyway that it's worth just going with whatever feels better (frex, it also lists references of 'another think a-comin'' which sounds almost pitifully silly).
Would not the word be "thought"?
It sounds wrong and dispite what Wiktionary might say it should be wrong.
It sounds wrong and dispite what Wiktionary might say it should be wrong.
Thing seems to have a pretty domineering lead.
I don't really understand why someone would say "think."
I don't really understand why someone would say "think."
Lol, I thought this was a joke. Saying "you've got another think coming" doesn't even make sense.
It has to be thing doesn't it? Think sounds awkward and out of place. It's like when people say 'anythink' instead of 'anything' - it just sounds awful.
As above. This does not need to be a poll, this is not a debate of what people think is right. It's a poll of who's wrong.Raptoricus said:
I get easily irritated by these errors. It's just lazy and shows how bad teaching/learning is.
I know people who say acrossed instead of across - bugs me.
The worst, though, the single worst missuse which gets my goat is:
the pronunciation of the letter 'H'. This is spoken as aitch. Heytch makes my skin crawl.
Graustein said:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aitch [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aitch]
It does say French people spell it hache but I think this pronounced "heche" like (Anne Heche). It's been a while since I did French language though.
Edit: I don't mean for this to be annoying, I'm sorry if it sounds that way.
I just grabbed the first dictionary I found in Google.Graustein said:
I am English. I thought as it is spelling this would be the same across English speaking nations. It does seem to have some differences though, as I discovered in Wikipedia.
Thanks for giving the a reason for this but how do I stop my skin crawling?
If you think the answer to this question is "think", you've got another thing coming!
*Makes a fist*
*Makes a fist*
I'd say that the word ought to depend on how you mean the phrase. If you're telling them "think again!", then it should be think. If you're telling them "I'm gonna give you something you ain't gonna like!", then it should be thing.
I always assumed that the phrase meant the latter, which is why "thing" sounds correct to me, but I can see how you could use it in the former context as well. It's a cliche'd bromide anyway so there really is no "correct" way to use it in conversation. Even if you get the phrase "right" you're still committing the sin of unoriginality.
I always assumed that the phrase meant the latter, which is why "thing" sounds correct to me, but I can see how you could use it in the former context as well. It's a cliche'd bromide anyway so there really is no "correct" way to use it in conversation. Even if you get the phrase "right" you're still committing the sin of unoriginality.
