"thing/think" [was: on the eggcorn beat]

[James Smith]

I've always used "thing", and that's what I've always understood others to be saying.  I recently read "To Kill a Mockingbird"; one of the characters says "another think coming", which I had to reread to make sure I read it correctly.

James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.


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