Words or phrases that drive you mad

Jessikita1983

Squire_Fulwood wrote: »

Welcome ...and you could have an uphill battle on your hands.

I had a colleague in Environmental Health last week bring me a statement he had prepared for court. It was despicable. He hadn't even used capital letters for i or road names.

His face was a picture when I corrected his errors and returned it to him. My intentions were not spiteful, but I cannot expect a Magistrate to view him as a credible witness with such basic errors.

crazyguy

Man that party was tight AF last night,

I like to Fart and Dart in the supermarket. It's funny to see the expressions when people walk through the cloud with their mouths wide,

Jessikita1983

The incorrect use of apostrophes in another that really annoys me. I am not perfect, I do have to remember the rules sometimes or think about them, but I see so many errors now.

Squire_Fulwood

The use of acronyms to represent cliches is also a phenomenon. IMHO, IMO, !!!!!!, OH, OP, and so on. The funny thing is I understand most of them and I wondering if they are not a good thing.

Jessikita1983

I have no idea what any of them you listed mean!

A young person I was talking to the other day said "that guy can chat bare". Oh dear.

Squire_Fulwood

IMHO (In my honest opinion), (In my opinion), !!!!!! (What the ......), OH (Other half), etc. Please keep up.

garethgas

And why is it that almost everyone in the nuclear industry pronounces it....new killer?
It's new clear not new killer.

Squire_Fulwood

Oh great we are on the American dimension.

Never mind New Killer, what about aluminum?

Also, Peter Ustinov claimed that the Americans only had one word for Mary, Merry and Marry and it sounded like mairy ...but in American ....and he was right about that.

dibuzz

garethgas wrote: »

And why is it that almost everyone in the nuclear industry pronounces it....new killer?
It's new clear not new killer.

I hear a lot of people pronounce it nu cu lar :mad:
Also salid for salad and buzz for bus annoy me, as well as could of, would of or even worse, would off.
Even writing it makes me grind my teeth!
Another one heard often on the Jeremy Kyle show is texes instead of texts.

jess1974

I really hate it when people refer to Tesco as Tescos, and Asda as Asdas grrrrrr.....