what two words in one/sayings irritate you?

peaceandfreedom

sixleafclover wrote: »

Also Cant stand "The devil is in the detail" What does it actually mean?

My understanding of it is that when considering something (such as a piece of work, a project, a contract) it is important not to just take the broader view but to look into the finer detail, because that's often where you get caught out.

I work in software development and it happens so often that a programming task sounds really simple but when you look into it properly, you realise it's way more complicated than it sounds. It's often a single sentence at the end of a 3-page specification that causes the biggest headache.

I would sum it up as 'read stuff carefully'.

celyn90

I hate nom nom as well. It's horrible.

"yummy mummy" also makes me cringe; especially when it's printed on lycra and surrounded by pictures of cupcakes.

TJH_2

When people say "I have gotten...." argghhhh.

khiller1988

Hows you - you don't say "how is you", it's "how are you" so how did you get to "hows you"

Also agree with the 110% thing, and people that use FYI, when they are trying to tell you something is wrong ( possibly because I always get it at work and then prove them wrong, but you're not giving me information for my own need you are trying to say your right and i'm wrong!)

Oh and people who say pacific instead of specific!

peaceandfreedom

j.e.j. wrote: »

..and sometimes people say 'literally' when they mean the opposite. "My chin, literally, hit the floor.." :rotfl:

Or, "I literally, like, DIED". :rotfl:

One person who says 'literally' all the time is Gok Wan - it's usually correct but redundant. "And I am going to literally pin this on the dress here."

peaceandfreedom

I shout at the telly when Alan Shearer gets his past tense wrong on MOTD - 'He done this' and 'He should have went'.

I also can not abide the new fashion for saying 'He was sat' or 'He was laying down' or 'He was stood there'. All wrong, wrong, wrong.

belfastgirl23

I hate it when people use the term 'missus' as a form of affection to people they know, as in 'how's you missus'

Also 'direction of travel' which seems to be around work a lot at the minute. It means the direction in which we are driving you

Oh and 110% of course. I immediately assume someone's an idiot if they say this.

surveyqueenuk

I'm another "nom nom" cringer - makes me think of people eating noisily - YUK! Also, I cannot stand it when people say "drownded" - the word is "drowned"!

catch_me_if_you_can

hardpressed wrote: »

Train station.

don't you have bus stations?

Turtle

Ooh yes loads of these wind me up, but then I say a few of them myself

Particularly cringe worthy phrases for me are 'between a rock and a hard place' and 'between the devil and the deep blue sea.'

Most detested though are all the words people use for baby, ie bubba, babby, bubs etc. I hate them all. It's a baby, nothing else.