Words or phrases that annoy you

peachyprice

vroombroom wrote: »

Just a bit of Friday fun.

The word 'moist' makes my skin crawl

Sorry, missed this thread yesterday, but just had to say, my daughter hates the word 'moist' too. :rotfl:

DUKE

AubreyMac wrote: »

Living room, front room or lounge?

Living room!

And before anyone starts it's settee not sofa or couch innit?

It's just the way we roll :mad: Why are they rolling, have they all had their legs amputated?

I'm between jobs How ridiculous is this!

AubreyMac

paddy's_mum wrote: »

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?

Plurals has always confused me, especially with words that end with a s anyway or words that are already plural. For example, I work in children's social services and this is on our headed paper. One colleague said it should be children services not children's because children is already a plural for child.

DUKE

Amond, sounds like aRmond, instead of aLmond, they all do it, even in TV!!!

CathA

Not all sentences have to have 'like' in it 20 times-constantly picking my nieces up on that one!
Of instead of have-as in- I should HAVE gone out.
Going forward-!!!!!!?
Moist, belly, supper and being called 'dear'- I am not 102!
The worst thing, and my inner grammar Nazi is coming out here, is people getting there, they're and their wrong, or where and were, or two, to and too. What makes it worse (for me anyway) is that a friend of mine, who had a very expensive boarding school education, gets it wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME. Doesn't say much about the benefits of paid education, does it? And before anyone thinks it's a class thing it's not, I just think if you pay all that money the least they can do is teach the pupils to spell! I had a very fractured education, 3 countries, several different education authorities, different types of schools and for various reasons I only had 3 1/2 years of high school, but I can spell!! And don't get me started on the correct use of apostrophes!

I feel better now.

Dustyblinds

Waffle_On wrote: »

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

Potternerd wrote: »

Yes I agree and people who say " I know a lovely man who's gay" before going on to be homophobic.

I also hate people who describe jobs or cars as "sexy".

And the word "relatable"

I've seen a few distant relations of mine post pictures of there kids on face book and describe them as 'my sexy little boy' how can you describe your own child as sexy????

Bobcrowther

Dustyblinds wrote: »

I've seen a few distant relations of mine post pictures of there kids on face book and describe them as 'my sexy little boy' how can you describe your own child as sexy????

People who don't read other posts in a thread, ESPECIALLY THE ONE DIRECTLY ABOVE THEIR OWN. AAAARGH!!!!
:mad::mad::mad:

Bogof_Babe

Regarding the 'x' at the end of messages, since the advent of touch screen phones I always end my texts to family and friends with an x, or more likely xx, to show that I've finished. It's a sort of code for "the end"!

It's so easy to accidentally send before you mean to, then the other person either thinks you're abrupt or starts replying, while you're still finishing the rest of what you wanted to say via a new text.

missbiggles1

AubreyMac wrote: »

Plurals has always confused me, especially with words that end with a s anyway or words that are already plural. For example, I work in children's social services and this is on our headed paper. One colleague said it should be children services not children's because children is already a plural for child.

Worrying that a professional person doesn't understand the use of the apostrophe.:(

DollyDee_2

Pronouncing room as rum. We don't say boom as bum, doom as dum. Why "rum"?