what two words in one/sayings irritate you?

Saturnalia

tuggy12 wrote: »

Americans say that because there are many towns/cities in several US states and Canada named Paris, London, Dublin etc.

So when they say Dublin, Ireland they are simply clarifying that it's not one of the 6 (or more) Dublin towns/cities on their own continent.

I should have said, it doesn't annoy me when Americans do it as it's part of their language, they say it for every city & country (or state) and there's a good reason for it as you pointed out, many US cities share names with other places both in the US and abroad.

It's when British people say it that it's annoying as anything!

Abbafan1972

Saturnalia wrote: »

I should have said, it doesn't annoy me when Americans do it as it's part of their language, they say it for every city & country (or state) and there's a good reason for it as you pointed out, many US cities share names with other places both in the US and abroad.

It's when British people say it that it's annoying as anything!

Sometimes it can be relevant when you're talking about places in the UK.

For instance there is a St Ives in Cambs as well as Cornwall and there is a New Quay in Wales as well as Newquay in Cornwall.

liney

'Nom nom'

Real eating noises are bad enough without the invention of fictional ones.

blossomhill_2

Cankles (calfs merged with ankles) - to me, that's wrong - they are Chunkles (chunky ankles) !

"Not too shabby" - the guy in the next office used this phrase dozens of times a day when asked "how are you" - if I could have got away with getting my hands on him he would have ended up looking very shabby indeed!

People who apologise for a rambling post - why - just take time and manners to write it short and sweet instead of demanding people take ages reading it just because you can't be bothered being concise

Saturnalia

Defining someone by a medical condition they have, i.e. calling them a diabetic, an asthmatic, etc. Why not say that he/she HAS (name of condition)?

StumpyPumpy

In the Daily Mail today, they refer to the increase in boys and men suffering from anorexia as "the Scourge of manorexia"

I wonder what the next serious illness that the DM will choose to trivalise in this way? "Mancer" perhaps?

duloch

LisaB85 wrote: »

My mother says -

'I let you wash up' or 'I'll let you hoover up' etc like she is trying to do people a favor it really winds me up! Just say 'can you do the washing up' I generally do it anyway but grrrrr

This really winds me up as well. As does "I'll let you make a cup of tea"

DKLS

One that gets on my norks is "trying to conceive" I heard this uttered by some friends of ours over the weekend, when she went off with my wife for a girlie chat he phrased it differently :rotfl:

cheeswright

the use of the word "stunning"
eg - on ebay -far too often - a stunning dress
as in - it caused me to be dazed and disorientated - ?
it will have nerve gas in the packaging perhapse? to ensure this
or
a stunning view - - how heavy is it that the impact will cause me to behave like a cow in a slaughterhouse........

cheeswright

by the waky DKLS
norks = breasts
or pertaining to north korea
what DID you mean ?????