SAY WHAT?
A TWITTER user has sparked a huge debate over a commonly used phrase.
People are divided over whether ‘hard as hell’ or ‘hard as hail’ is the correct expression.
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One man wrote on the social media app: “I've just done my own head in. ‘Hard as hell’ or ‘hard as hail’.
“It's an ongoing debate, but the majority swings towards ‘hard as hell"
“Why would Hell be hard? Hail IS hard & hell is hot.
“So I'm opting for: ‘hot as hell’ & ‘hard as hail’. It's just more logical.”
But his “realisation” sparked a huge reaction - with hundreds of people weighing in to give their opinion.
Many agreed that the correct expression is ‘hard as hail.
One person joked: “It took me 27yrs to realize it’s hard as hail not hard as hell.”
Another added: “I mean..why would it be “hard as hell”? Hail makes sense.
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“But because human beings have been saying it wrong for so many years they’ll keep saying it lol.”
However, others disagreed - claiming that ‘hard as hell’ is the phrase.
One person said: "Hard as hell is actually the correct form.
“The term refers to something really difficult, and as others have noted, ‘as hell’ is simply an all-purpose intensifier.
“The question is quite understandable, though, because the pronunciation will vary per the English dialect (accent, if you like) involved.
“Some make clear distinctions between the vowels in 'hell' and 'hail', others, not so much.”
It comes after a woman revealed how she has been saying chest of drawers wrong all her life.
It's not the first time someone has realised later on in life they've been doing or saying something incorrectly.
But the woman has revealed she's been saying the phrase wrong for 23 years and has only recently been corrected.
She explained that she found out she was saying it wrong after her mum corrected her while she was hunting for furniture.
After moving into her own house, she began googling the furniture to find some for her new home - but it came up with few results.
She recently revealed: "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.”
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The social media user had been calling chest of drawers 'chester draws' for as long as she can remember.