![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/woman-discovers-shes-been-saying-chest-of-drawers-wrong/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Woman-in-bedroom-closing-a-drawer.jpg&description=A woman has admitted she's been saying the phrase 'chest of drawers' wrong for years and couldn't believe it when her mum corrected her - but she's not the only one A woman was left red-faced when she realised she was saying a popular phrase the wrong way. In fact, not only did she mispronounce it, but she added a completely different word at the start of it. She admitted on social media has admitted she spent 23 years thinking that she was correct in the way she referred to a chest of drawers - only for her mum to finally correct her when she was furniture hunting for her new house. The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she blamed her Bristolian parents for the mishap because she had misheard their pronunciation throughout her life and had only realised her mistake after attempting to search for the item on Google and finding very few results. Get the news you want straight to your inbox. Sign up for a Mirror newsletter here. In a video posted to her TikTok account, she said: '23 years is a long time to be getting something wrong. Yet nobody's ever pulled me up on it. I think this is because I'm super Bristolian and my parents are really Bristolian, and that's where I got it from. 'So, when I was 23, I moved into my first house with my partner. We were furnishing it and just looking around to see what we could find. But there was one item that I literally could not find anywhere. I was Googling it and a few things that were similar were coming up but just not what I was after. So I gave my mum a call. 'I say, 'Mum, I'm looking for this' and she was like, 'okay, can you say that again?' So I said it slower. And she just burst into laughter.' The young woman then realised her error when her mum burst out laughing - because instead of saying "chest of drawers", she had spent more than 20 years calling the furniture item "Chester drawers". She added: 'She said, 'you're saying it wrong'. 'What I was saying to her is 'Mum, I need to I can't find Chester drawers){kind=link}
A woman has admitted she’s been saying the phrase ‘chest of drawers’ wrong for years and couldn’t believe it when her mum corrected her – but she’s not the only one
A woman was left red-faced when she realised she was saying a popular phrase the wrong way.
In fact, not only did she mispronounce it, but she added a completely different word at the start of it.
She admitted on social media has admitted she spent 23 years thinking that she was correct in the way she referred to a chest of drawers – only for her mum to finally correct her when she was furniture hunting for her new house.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said she blamed her Bristolian parents for the mishap because she had misheard their pronunciation throughout her life and had only realised her mistake after attempting to search for the item on Google and finding very few results.