Words or phrases that annoy you

piglet74

Faith177 wrote: »

Used it in the context "I swear down if he carries on I'm gunna smack him"

It's a way of saying that you are telling the truth but actually you're probably just talking a load of bs because in fact you're not hard or tough you are in fact a wannabe gangster

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swear+down

Thanks, I honestly never heard it, though I am from Ireland, I'm sure we have our own unique style of getting the same message across!

RuthnJasper

piglet74 wrote: »

Thanks, I honestly never heard it, though I am from Ireland, I'm sure we have our own unique style of getting the same message across!

I hadn't heard of it either.


One more that I have to vent before I collapse once again into slumber... Two words:-


"My" "bad". 😒

alex21

"Back in the day" for me as well. I just want to say, when? Please be specific.
People who order an expresso in a coffee shop. There is no X people.
This one makes me fume "I seen a lovely bag, or I seen that on the news" You know who I am talking about, almost everyone in Northern Ireland!!! On the plus side I do love the overuse of the word wee here. Will I put that in a wee bag for you? That's your wee receipt! I always think it sounds friendly!!

Newly_retired

I hate bad grammar eg We was, I were....

I despise poor spelling, especially where it renders a sentence unintelligible eg confusion between where and were.
However sometimes predictive text or a typing error is the cause.

I tolerate mispronunciation but I cringe inwardly when I hear pronounciation, and skellington ( skeleton) or sustificate (certificate).

I would like to get out my red pen when I read Apple's instead of apples.

I loathe the current misuse of epic and iconic.

However, I do find the regional variants most interesting. How many different words for path can we find? Alley, ginnel, snicket, jitty ....

I enjoyed learning new expressions when I lived in Yorkshire eg give back-word, meaning to go back on your word, drop out.

We were once invited for "supper" and mistakenly did not eat beforehand, not realising that we would not be given a proper meal, just some cake and (what else?) cheese. Now I always refer to an evening meal, rather than tea, dinner or supper.

I find this topic fascinating, distinguishing between that which is wrong, that which is regional or generational, and that which is uneducated or lazy. I am more tolerant of laziness in speech than in writing.

Any mistakes in what I have written are produced by my i-pad, not by me.

piglet74

alex21 wrote: »

"Back in the day" for me as well. I just want to say, when? Please be specific.
People who order an expresso in a coffee shop. There is no X people.
This one makes me fume "I seen a lovely bag, or I seen that on the news" You know who I am talking about, almost everyone in Northern Ireland!!! On the plus side I do love the overuse of the word wee here. Will I put that in a wee bag for you? That's your wee receipt! I always think it sounds friendly!!

What's your wee address? Do you find that we are being asked that all the time now?

ScarletRibbons

I hate "lay" instead of lie, "sat" or "stood" instead of sitting or standing.

"Deteriate" instead of deteriorate, and in book reviews on Amazon I frequently see books "defiantly recommended"

"Drawring" is another one, instead of drawing, and many, many more!

Dizzy_Ditzy

Pollycat wrote: »

"Obviously"

Actually, you're wrong.
It's not obvious at all.

I had to sit through a presentation as part of a course last year. The lady was full of "obviously" :mad:

I got bored so decided to count how many times she used the word "obviously" in a fifteen minute talk.

43 :eek::eek:

NBLondon

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Power outage.

I think it what Americans and radio news people call a power "cut".

Isn't there actually a difference there?


A Power Outage is an unplanned disruption; a Power Cut is a planned one e.g. as a result of strikes in the 1970s.

NBLondon

Deleted User wrote: »

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

From the Latin appendere meaning "to hang on". So the (literary) appendix hangs on to the rest of the book and your (anatomical) appendix hangs on to your cecum.

NBLondon

My wife gets wound up by "train station" instead of "railway station". That might be a regional thing because in my Northern boyhood it was just t'station. (Trains and buses left from the same station so no-one needed to distinguish).


I don't get particularly wound up by genuine regionalisms and dialects but I find Jafaican and rap speak tiresome - Ali G was mockery not a role model!