Words or phrases that drive you mad

kathleenryd

hansi wrote: »

Happy Birthday signs written on sheets and placed on roundabouts. Who cares whose birthday it is! and who wants to know anyway!

Bah humbug!!

mulled_wine

Being called "Babe" by the female team leaders at work. They all do it. The male team leaders seem quite capable of using your given name!

This "Smilie" :mad: being used inappropriately on MSE and very probably other forums (but I don't have enough time to look elsewhere!)

Thou being used when they mean though. Oddly enough, I will accept tho'

Your and You're being misused

Two, too and to

Ur and U - I detest these.

Can I get me a coffee (in a cafe) No, the person serving you will do that. Your role is to request, and pay for the drink.

allybee101

I experienced a new one that not even my uber-enthusiastic up to the moment line manager could decipher - "ground truthed". !!!!!!?! I had to reply to the sender to request a translation, they had the decency to be ashamed at their excessive use of buzz words.

Answers on a post card if you know what "ground truthed" means!

SHIPSHAPE

'At the end of the day...'


Bloody annoying.

Froglet

This thread really has turned out fun! I think 'modernisms'(and even that word has been created!) will always come and go.Some are even quite ingenius and aptly describe a situation.

But good old English grammar,both in what we write and how it is spoken, should always be THE most important thing.Words too often these days are spelt or pronounced wrongly and in my view this is something that needs to be addressed.

IceCreamDreams

fleagle21 wrote: »

'Sick' - unless being used to describe someone unwell (that makes me sound so old! I'm clearly not 'down with the kids'!!!)

And, one that really irritates me - people saying pacific or pacifically when they mean specific!!!

That "pacific" thing drives me mad too!

I also hate the "so I was like....and then he was like....and so I was like...."

and the use of "of a" before a time of day, i.e. "I like to have my Cornflakes of a morning" or "I don't get much sleep of a night" - this winds me up!

ltwf1964

"on the ground" where else is it going to be?Mars?

"iconic"

"global warming"

"climate change"

marvin

athensgeorgia wrote: »

I really dislike when I'm at work I answer the phone and the first thing the caller says is listen, What else do they think I will be doing?

Quite a lot of people these days cannot do anything without instruction.... How was I to know no one told me is a phrase I hear a lot.

SallyForth_2

On shopping channels and similar, where they refer to the item they are trying to sell you as "your" item. No it's not my item. I think they do it because they believe they are creating some sort of sense of inclusion or belonging or something, and that will make us buy one.

Eenymeeny

I didn't realise what a really grumpy person I have become but being called 'hun' is another thing that really annoys me.
Isn't it funny what annoys one person is just meant as a pleasantry to others? Like I am guilty of using the smilie... I'm just trying to be friendly, honest!:);)