Words or phrases that annoy you

Pollycat

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).

What does your wife call a place where buses depart from?

Lily-Rose_3

missbiggles1 wrote: »

When did people start calling charity shops "chazzas"? I've only ever read it on MSE where a couple of people use it.

I have never heard anyone call a charity shop a chazza shop. Ever.

piglet74 wrote: »

What is swear down?

I have started to say that. :rotfl: I am annoying mySELF with it, and I don't know what it means or why I say it!

Maybe it means down on the bible or swear on my life or sumfink. (Sorry, cudnt resist.)

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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Why wouldn't you say train station? And how is it 'infantile?' :huh:

It's a station where trains come to/leave from. So it's a train station.

As Georgie said, we call the station where the buses come to a 'bus station,' so it seems natural/normal to say train station, for the station where trains come to.

As I said how and why is it infantile? It's not like we're saying choo choo station. :rotfl:

C_Mababejive

Faith177 wrote: »

I pull my housemate up on those all the time infuriates me!

I accidently said "I haven't got a scooby" (Scooby Do - Clue) to my nan the other day she went mad so I'll avoided using that from now on.

Urgh "swear down" I loath I live in Essex and work in TOWIEville (Brentwood) and all I hear is the stupid words those so called "celbs" use (or as I call them plebs) it drives me mad :mad:

JUST SPEAK NORMALLY !!!!!!!! :mad::mad::mad::eek:

Hahaha,,i am aware of TOWIE but could not possibly bring myself to watch it. However a couple of days ago on morning TV, there was a very useful tutorial on the use of the popular Essex phrase.."Shut Up " and how it can be used to convey different messages .

Resistance is futile,the march of the underclass in all its guises continues apace. We are the Dinosaurs.

GeeBee38

mumps wrote: »

I have a horrible feeling I am going to win this one.:eek:

mumps, has your grandson arrived yet? :rotfl:

LutonGirl

I am pleased to report that my nephew has stopped using "basically". I am sad to report that he has replaced it with a short version - "base"... grrrrrrr

C_Mababejive

piglet74 wrote: »

What is swear down?

Its use is currently de rigeur in Northern Town chav culture. You will hear it a lot in places like Manchester and Salford. Where these phrases come from ,no one knows but they spread like wildfire in the underclass because if you dont imitate then you dont belong.

In Manchester the underclass squawk with a whining nasal sing songy sounding emission and each emission must contain some key phrases

C_Mababejive

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!!

Yes there are many things that are peculiarly Irish and especially in Northern ireland due to the mix of Scots/ Irish.

Have a look at the Norn Iron Haunbook and you will see countless examples ! Great fun..

Lily-Rose_3

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Its use is currently de rigeur in Northern Town chav culture. You will hear it a lot in places like Manchester and Salford. Where these phrases come from ,no one knows but they spread like wildfire in the underclass because if you dont imitate then you dont belong.

In Manchester the underclass squawk with a whining nasal sing songy sounding emission and each emission must contain some key phrases

That's it! I'm a northern chav! :rotfl:

Either that, or I watch Jeremy Kyle too much.

That said, I do hear it said on TOWIE quite often (and that's set dahn saaaaf...)

Slinky

Guys

As in 'Have you guys finished?' as we were asked by a young waitress in a very expensive restaurant a couple of weeks back.......... We're old enough to be her parents if not grandparents.

Arggghhhhh.

Izadora

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Hahaha,,i am aware of TOWIE but could not possibly bring myself to watch it.

It's cos it makes you well jel about how totes reem it is in Essex innit babe?

I think I've watched the grand total of about 5 minutes of TOWIE but, being an Essex girl, I get to hear people talk like that all the time. I'm so lucky!