Words or phrases that annoy you

onlyroz

AubreyMac wrote: »

Living room, front room or lounge?

Sitting room

onlyroz

I dislike a lot of americanisms e.g. movies, cookies, candy, show and season when you mean film, biscuit, sweets, program and series.

My husband also says skellington and rayshist when he means skeleton and racist, which drives me nuts

I'm a software engineer and some of the common abbreviations are annoying, like gooey for GUI or sequel for SQL.

I don't mind date night but I dislike "play date" for when your kids get together.

DigForVictory

I'll tolerate thingummy & wossname from my teenage sons before midday. After that, I expect them to have either decided to rejoin the human race on a temporary membership basis, or to ask "what is the proper word for X"?
If my northern raised (& immediate) family keep on poking fun at my Received Pronunciation of the word 'castle' ("she keeps putting Rs in things" etc), than one day I will snap, do something regrettable & violent and I expect they'll wonder why for the next few decades. Since I expect to be incarcerated, they can blinking well wonder.

Georgiegirl256

Dustyblinds wrote: »

I'm a Geordie. I say I'm eating me dinner, midday meal.
I also say me mam, so do my kids, and they get annoyed when it get to Mother's Day and it's so difficult to find a Mother's Day card for mam, they all refer to mum, I'm not mum I'm MAM.
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Totally agree with that! At Christmas I found a Mam card. Think it was the only design in the shop that actually said 'Mam' on the front and not 'Mum'. So I bought it, but being in a rush forgot to buy one for my MIL too, and then when I went back they'd sold out.

I always think they should have more cards for the Northern market, as it's weird buying one that says Mum, I never call her Mum.

Dustyblinds

People who say anythink instead of anything, or somethink instead of something
Family shortened to fam, then fam-a-lam, what's that all about?
We was instead of we were
Brought instead of bought
Props instead of probably
Replacing th with f, as is fought instead of thought, fink instead of think, sounds very childish
I'm feeling grumpy now, I must stop

Dustyblinds

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Totally agree with that! At Christmas I found a Mam card. Think it was the only design in the shop that actually said 'Mam' on the front and not 'Mum'. So I bought it, but being in a rush forgot to buy one for my MIL too, and then when I went back they'd sold out.

I always think they should have more cards for the Northern market, as it's weird buying one that says Mum, I never call her Mum.

Hopefully the fact that they sold out so soon might make them cotton on to the fact we need more mam greetings cards

Waffle_On

I get the urge to beat people who put a kiss on the end of every sentence they type x

DollyDee_2

My friend's Mom (we are in the Midlands) says loads of things wrong:

broccilow for broccoli

allus for always

burt for but

pacifcally for specifically

She also says "like you know" about 3 or 4 times in every sentence
and "whatsit" every time time she can't remember the word or person (which is frequently). After two sentences I don't know what or who she is talking about.

She also never stops talking - it's very hard work trying to follow what she is on about. Has to fill a silence.

balletshoes

AubreyMac wrote: »

Living room, front room or lounge?

living room

pigpen

swingaloo wrote: »

My husband when he says he is 'Taking me out'.
NO you are not, we are going out together. You take the flaming dog out!

Here that would imply he was going to beat you unconscious! Or kill you!! Maybe he needs introducing to that side of it

I use 'actually' far too often for my own liking! and ..... and !!! because I like them!
Using 'f' instead of 'th' .. fanks, free (as in the third number.. not the fird), fink forts on a fairzdee ... *strangle offending party*.. is it really that hard to speak properly?

'chill your beans' .. it is one I use with snarky teenagers because they find it amusing when i do and it dispels the grumps.

brought/bought being used in place of each other.
have/of .. ggrrrr
calling children 'kids' I absolutely hate it.. they are not infant goats!!!
teaching babies to say 'ta' instead of thank you/choochoo's instead of trains etc.. teaching them to speak twice is stupid, do it properly the first time.

'prolly'.. 'probly'.. those extra 2 letters won't kill you!

using is/are, the wrong 'there',

'Iya instead of hello.
'Mam' and 'Mom' I hate both for different reasons.

Ok.. so, anyone who is too lazy to use a spellcheck makes my blood boil and anyone who doesn't speak properly, and people in general, and most animals... this is why I don't pick people up on their spellings/grammar because I would be a totally unpleasant person (and you never know what issues they have), I just growl and seethe under my breath.. life is too short to bother.