Volucer said:
At work today one of my bosses was saying how their daughter had laughed at them for saying the phrase "If you think you're going out tonight you've got another think coming", saying think instead of thing. When most of us said we would have done the same we turned to polling the staff, which gave us half agreeing with think and half agreeing with think (and those saying think being of an older generation, bar one 65 year old)and the other half saying it was thing. So I'm curious, what do you say, And what which is right?
The correct word is "thing", using the word "think" is either a misspelling or if the word "think" is used by its correct definition then the sentence makes no sense.
It doesn't matter if some people think otherwise, they are simply wrong. If they don't understand why it's wrong then have had a poor education. Using it as a point of conformity is not unexpected though it simply adds to the recent dumbing down of the English language.
Relying on the general public for information is rarely a sensible thing to do. The number of people who don't understand statistics but talk about them anyway just annoys me, case in point; Tony Blair said words to the effect of:
"It's not fair that half of students get less than the average."
Seriously, if you don't understand something, don't bother sprouting your ignorance.
