Words or phrases that annoy you

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!

mumps

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.

I agree and also find it nearly impossible to find a Baptism card, most of the shops have Christening cards. I had to resort to Moonpig and design my own.

Jagraf

Card companies will only print what is can sell in bulk. There are loads more "sister and her partner" etc than there used to be as less people are married. "To my dog" seems to be on the up too !

Mum is more common country-wide than mam or mom. Mother is obviously generic.

consumers_revenge

Phrase is 'whilst your here', I get this a lot in work.


Pi55es me off as it basically means Im too ******* lazy to get off my backside and tell you of a problem BUT as youre now passing and working on something else can I chat to you about it now.


The actual reply I want to give is ..... no sod off and get in line!!!!

Dustyblinds

I've thought of something else that does my head in, people who add an h to words that start with s, as in shtrawberry, I've just heard someone reading the news on the radio and she said people were shtruggling, it's STruggling not Shtruggling, grrr

GeeBee38

mumps wrote: »

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!

My brother says this too, i actually count in my head how many times he says it, half the time, i don't even know what he's talking about as i am too busy counting, it's really annoying :eek:

He's on his way now with my nephew to visit, i'm dreading it!!

gt568

Brexit is getting on my tits big time at present.

Slinky

The phrase 'to die for'............. usually over some pointless thing like a view or food

PenguinOfDeath

gt568 wrote: »

Brexit is getting on my tits big time at present.

Yes! And it's only going to get worse, much like Credit Crunch did