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Fieth

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TheDevilEatsNestle · 19/03/2008 16:22

Why do so many people say this.
And Fiethery is a hairy bird that can't spell not a criminal act.

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SorenLorensen · 19/03/2008 16:23

What?

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claricebeansmum · 19/03/2008 16:24

DEN - you need to get out more!

Although I do agree with you

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collision · 19/03/2008 16:24

never heard it and never said it

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flossish · 19/03/2008 16:25

erm?

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TheDevilEatsNestle · 19/03/2008 16:28

I apologise. My friend just sent me a link of Kerry Katona on GMTV and she repeatedly said 'feith' and 'feithery' . Which I realised I had heard lots before and annoyed me.

But I am worse for watching the link.

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YouKnowNothingOfTheCrunch · 19/03/2008 16:30

You mean instead of thief?!

Took me ages to work out what a fieth was

That annoys me too.

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meander · 19/03/2008 16:31

Is it pacifically fieth, or are there others


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YouKnowNothingOfTheCrunch · 19/03/2008 16:32
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TheDevilEatsNestle · 19/03/2008 16:34

Too many to list. there's the obvious such as bought and brought. Oh, and 'catching the train'.

I'd like to see someone try

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scatterbrain · 19/03/2008 16:36

Pacifically ????? SNORT !!!

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TheDevilEatsNestle · 19/03/2008 16:38
Grin
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YouKnowNothingOfTheCrunch · 19/03/2008 16:39

"Bring it over there."

This one simple sentence almost ended my marriage.

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Calisteregg · 19/03/2008 16:41

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LittleWonder · 19/03/2008 16:43

A small child may be forgiven for fiething. An adult should be hung.

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TheDevilEatsNestle · 19/03/2008 16:44

pmsl

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barnstaple · 19/03/2008 16:45

Surely an adult should be hanged

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YouKnowNothingOfTheCrunch · 19/03/2008 16:46

You beat me to it barnstaple

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LittleWonder · 19/03/2008 16:53

Even if they are drawn and quartered? Good question Barnstaple.

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LittleWonder · 19/03/2008 16:54

I cannot quite see "hanged, drawn and quartered"

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LittleWonder · 19/03/2008 16:58

Very well:

A small child may be forgiven for fiething.
An adult should be hanged.

Yes, of course.

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YouKnowNothingOfTheCrunch · 19/03/2008 17:11

"Meat is hung; people are hanged." (picture it said by a Trunchbull-type matriarch)

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StealthPolarBear · 19/03/2008 17:34

KK - at the moment she is on the radio talking about "shhtrawberry cheesecake"
am I missing the not-so-silent h in strawberry?

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barnstaple · 19/03/2008 18:29

I'm afraid that there were often hanged, drawn and quartered. It would probably be more humane if they were hung and illustrated, then shared out. Oh dear, I'm tired, sorry.

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BarcodeZebra · 19/03/2008 19:48

You can't even say it properly. It's feef and feevin.

Call yourself a pedant?

Chuh!

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