Words or phrases that annoy you

Mrs_Ryan

I'm studying Linguistics as my part of my degree and I'm going on to study Linguistics at Master's level so this thread is really interesting to me!
I'm intrigued by various differences in dialect and what things are called in various parts of the country. I'm from the North East and meals are breakfast, dinner and tea. OH is from the East Midlands and it's breakfast, lunch and dinner to him. Mom is one word I hate with a vengeance- my mate calls her mum mom and I always tell her off saying she is neither American nor Brummie so don't use it! Strangely enough I don't mind when my other mate who is from the Black Country, says it...
I hate the habit here of calling people 'duck' I'm not a duck, I don't have webbed feet and emit a quacking noise!
I used to work with a woman who said the words 'lickle' and 'ospickle' which really, really used to annoy me. I have a good friend in Yorkshire and spend a lot of time in Leeds with her and I've noticed that some Yorkshire folk have a tendency to drop aitches in their speech which as a linguist really annoys me- I didn't realise it was such an issue until the words 'Hell' and 'Hull' were mentioned in close proximity to each other :rotfl:
Oh and another vote for hating the word 'moist'
My mum used to use the phrase 'get down to brass tacks' which for some reason I utterly hated and I always used to tell her so I don't mind at all being called hun, love etc... My two closest friends both call me babe and I return it but I don't like being called it by people I don't know.
My mate calls me the grammar police I love English words and I love how they work but I have so many pet hates :rotfl:

mgdavid

barbiedoll wrote: »

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"House husband".....not "Full-time Daddy" then? (I honestly don't know what is worse?) ......

people who say what instead of which.

AubreyMac

barbiedoll wrote: »

"House husband".....not "Full-time Daddy" then? (I honestly don't know what is worse?)

What about 'home maker', is that another word for housewife?

gettingtheresometime

'caught' when talking about someone who has become pregnant

gettingtheresometime

People who start an answer with the word so

bluelass

When people call an extra page an appendix. The appendix is a vestigial organ that can cause many problems.

DollyDee_2

sirstickyfoot (certificate)

at the end of the day

we took the decision

proactive (in job adverts)

team-player usually followed by who can work on their own initiative
(also job adverts)

bilious - not heard very often but makes me cringe

writ instead of wrote

Dustyblinds

When someone says are instead of our. A woman I work with tries to talk posh but fails abysmally and always says are instead of our, really grinds on me!

Mr_Toad

DollyDee wrote: »

sirstickyfoot (certificate)

at the end of the day

we took the decision

proactive (in job adverts)

team-player usually followed by who can work on their own initiative
(also job adverts)

bilious - not heard very often but makes me cringe

writ instead of wrote

Fascinating thread.

I agree with the top two but if I was employing someone I'd like them to be proactive rather than waiting to be told to do something. Also being a team player and the ability to work on your own initiative are not mutually exclusive.

Writ is the old English way of referring to a piece or body of writing, the fact that it is generally only used by the legal profession these days does not make it incorrect.

Language evolves, it has to in order to cope with the changing world, and I find it truly fascinating rather than annoying the way people speak. I find some words and phrases work while others are pointless, I wonder if people use them to fill in the gaps when they don't really have anything to say but feel they should be talking?

GlasweJen

My sister writes off instead of of every time!