Words or phrases that annoy you

Georgiegirl256

'Wind your neck in' is a saying I really hate.

DollyDee_2

I actually don't get why "Mom" irritates people. To me it is just an abbreviation of Mother. It's not Muther is it?

Mummy is more to do with the deceased and Egyptians is it not?

Mam, to me, is just Mom spoken in a different dialect.

pollypenny

Spendless wrote: »

Haha, when I had youngest, who isn't quite 13, we changed my car. I had several people, including my sister-in-law say that my husband was buying me a car. No, we (as in our household)were buying a car for me to use. If people wanted to be really nosey about where the cash was coming from, I was saving my maternity allowance to fund the purchase, so strictly speaking I'd bought my own car!

That reminds me of something.

We used to go camping in France, very cheaply once we'd paid the ferry. This particular year, 1980' we were really broke, but OH was desperate to go.

One silly woman called me 'Ungrateful for not letting my husband take me and the kids on holiday.' :eek:

Not letting him get us into debt more like!

pigpen

DollyDee wrote: »

I actually don't get why "Mom" irritates people. To me it is just an abbreviation of Mother. It's not Muther is it?.

She is my mother, anything else would be wrong. Mom is an Americanism which is why most people hate it, along with most other Americanisms, movies, using 'z' instead of 's', candy, etc

pollypenny

'Me' rather than 'my' used to irritate me when I first moved north, but I've realised that it's an old pronunciation, as in Chaucer.

I hate the strange 'definely' and 'probly ', which I hear on radio and TV far too often.

There must me a market for cards to 'Mam', as it is Welsh as well as northern.

Great pedants thread, eh?

onlyroz

pigpen wrote: »

She is my mother, anything else would be wrong. Mom is an Americanism which is why most people hate it, along with most other Americanisms, movies, using 'z' instead of 's', candy, etc

I thought "Mom" was quite common in the midlands. Where I'm from it's mum, but go a bit further north and it's mam.

paddy's_mum

ONLY has to be one of the most misplaced words.

In Sainsbury's yesterday, I read 'we only use cage free eggs in our ingredients'. If that statement is true, there are no ingredients, plural.

Similarly, a year or so ago in Morrison's - 'we only sell British beef'. Okay..so what are all those thousands of other boxes, jars and packets on your shelves?

GeeBee38

I hate people who say "cheer up" "give us a smile"

One man made my life a misery every single day at work for over 10 years, every single time we crossed paths he would say "cheer up"

I tried my best to avoid him, and had many a row with him over it, i asked him not to speak to me or even look at me, it got that bad.

I could never get my head around why he went out of his way to upset and annoy me, he didn't even know me

Years passed, he still said it, i still avoided him

Anyway, after a weekend off, i went back to work to be told he had committed suicide, leaving two young children and a wife behind

missbiggles1

DollyDee wrote: »

I actually don't get why "Mom" irritates people. To me it is just an abbreviation of Mother. It's not Muther is it?

Mummy is more to do with the deceased and Egyptians is it not?

Mam, to me, is just Mom spoken in a different dialect.

For those of us who live outside areas where it's used, it seems like an Americanism, in fact, it's only from this site that I know it isn't.

Georgiegirl256

missbiggles1 wrote: »

For those of us who live outside areas where it's used, it seems like an Americanism, in fact, it's only from this site that I know it isn't.

Exactly. I'd never heard of it being used outside of America before, until I found out from this site that it is used in the Midlands.

It annoys me when my cousin uses it. He is Northern, but insists on saying stuff like "tell your Mom to call my Mom". Then again, he also calls me mate (which is annoying) and says things like "we must touch base soon" and "ciao"