Words or phrases that annoy you

NBLondon

bluelass 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!

gazebo

i cannot explain exactly why but the phrase "race to the bottom" really winds me up.

missbiggles1

pollypenny wrote: »

I've never, ever heard anyone, even the daftest pupil, confuse 'brought' and 'bought'.

Is it a regional thing?

I'm surprised at that - I taught in 3 different areas and came across it on a regular basis. You also hear it regularly on television, read it on here and can Google many web pages on the subject.

https://www.google.fr/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=brought%20bought

Oakdene

My daughter uses the following phrase 'Just saying' if I have told her off for saying something wrong & !!!!!! me does it roast my potatoes!!!

missbiggles1

Oakdene wrote: »

My daughter uses the following phrase 'Just saying' if I have told her off for saying something wrong & !!!!!! me does it roast my potatoes!!!

As much as "whatever!"?

Gloomendoom

NBLondon wrote: »

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'm from the North and it's not regional.

Train station sounds infantile to me. It's a station on the railway, so a railway station, or just "station" for short.


"Fighter jet" is an another one that gets on my nerves, particularly when the aeroplanes being referred to are not fighters but bombers.

moneyistooshorttomention

alex21 wrote: »

"Back in the day" for me as well. I just want to say, when? Please be specific.

Uz yer West Country people sometimes use "back along" - which is very much the equivalent of "back in the day". It comes in handy to have a phrase that means "some time back - and I cant be specific about exactly when...but the exact date isn't important anyway. So why worry about it?".

tea_lover

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Train station sounds infantile to me. It's a station on the railway, so a railway station, or just "station" for short.

Wouldn't that make a bus station a road station?

Georgiegirl256

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I'm from the North and it's not regional.

Train station sounds infantile to me. It's a station on the railway, so a railway station, or just "station" for short.
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Do you call a station where you get a Bus a Bus Station? If so, why not call a place where you get a train a train station?

Almost everyone around here (up North!) where I live calls it a a Train Station. Don't care if it sounds infantile or not, I guess you just get used to calling it that as everyone else does.