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Looking for a longmore?

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MissInterpreted Thu 27-Jun-24 15:36:58

Well, I know we've had threads on here before about mis-spelled words and bad grammar, etc - but I've just come across a real cracker today. On our local residents' group on Facebook, a woman was asking if anyone had a Longmore she could borrow. I was baffled as to what a Longmore was, until she replied to another comment that she wanted to cut her grass! grin

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ExDancer Fri 28-Jun-24 11:43:55

I typed "lornmore" into here, and my spellcheck suggested 'long more', 'Long More' and (wait for it) 'lawnmower'.
I know its not the spelling the OP used, but I can see how it happened.

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Granmarderby10 Sat 29-Jun-24 10:45:21

Well there you go then…it could end up in the dictionary.
A bit like “hoovering”

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Beechnut Sat 29-Jun-24 10:55:41

For years I always used to think a nearby antique shop was called Dove (as in cove) Antiques. One day the penny dropped.

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Callistemon213 Sat 29-Jun-24 10:58:29

Beechnut

For years I always used to think a nearby antique shop was called Dove (as in cove) Antiques. One day the penny dropped.

Still working on it 🤔

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kircubbin2000 Sat 29-Jun-24 11:01:03

Don't understand Dove or cove. What should it be?

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Beechnut Sat 29-Jun-24 11:05:14

kircubbin2000

Don't understand Dove or cove. What should it be?

It was Dove….like the bird….but I pronounced dove like cove at the beach.
Now someone tell me I’ve been pronouncing cove wrong all these years 🤣

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Callistemon213 Sat 29-Jun-24 11:28:34

Like the American way of pronunciation - "I dove into the swimming pool"

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Beechnut Sat 29-Jun-24 11:34:14

👍🏻

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grandtanteJE65 Sat 29-Jun-24 14:28:55

Germanshepherdsmum

I’ve tried, but can’t imagine a dialect in which ‘lawnmower’ becomes ‘longmore’.

It might just be possible if you combined Glaswegian and Merseyside!

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M0nica Sat 29-Jun-24 19:30:32

Just a thought - was it predictive text and she didn't read it before she posted, alternatively is she dyslexic?

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kircubbin2000 Mon 01-Jul-24 08:54:22

Long more sounds fine to me.You know what she meant.

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