Words or phrases that annoy you

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

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!

mumps

CathA wrote: »

Often I can't sleep so in the midnight hours I've spent many an hour dreaming up ways to explain simply to people the difference in there, their and they're, so here goes.

There- if you can change the word in the sentence with "here " and it still makes sense. I.e. there is a chair, here is a chair, you use there and take the t away to make here.

Their- the possessive version. If you can change the word to my and it still makes sense. I.e. their chair, my chair. My rhymes with I, so you use their. So, their chair is over there, my chair is over here.

They're-short for they are. If you can lengthen the word they're to they are and it makes sense. I.e. they're sitting down, they are sitting down.


I don't get out much!

I always told my children, and now grandchildren, that there refers to a place so it has here in it and their is something belonging to a person so it has I in it. They never had any problems and found it easy to work out.

mumps

My grandson is driving me mad by saying "basically" at the start of every sentence and sometimes more than once in a sentence. I am trying to ignore it as I think if I mention it it might make him worse. He likes teasing granny!