Words or phrases that annoy you

AubreyMac

tea_lover wrote: »

Ha , I hate the word lunch! I'm very much a breakfast, dinner and tea girl :rotfl:.

So if I invite you over for tea, what do you expect?

thistledome

Everything that's been posted already, plus:

"At this moment in time" instead of plain old "now". Why?? :mad:

"I'm not gonna lie..." before giving their (usually half-witted) opinion.:mad:

Nearly all Americanisms. Most things foreign. Anything that wasn't said by any British person before WWII.

OK, that's a slight exaggeration.....;)

tea_lover

AubreyMac wrote: »

So if I invite you over for tea, what do you expect?

An evening meal. Unless you'd said "pop round for a cup of tea", in which case I'd expect said cup of tea and lots of biscuits

Either's fine... what time do you want me?

kkgree1

I run Neighbourhood Watch in my village. Several older people use the word "ungodly" when referring to criminals. For example, "the ungodly are at work again stealing cars".

I go to church but my brother's an atheist and I find it insulting that they group anyone who doesn't believe in God in the same category as criminals!

Robisere

A lot of these dislikes are what I call "dialectism's" from various parts of the UK. For me, that is what makes the UK so interesting: indeed that is what my German friends tell me after touring the country. They say how entertaining it is to hear such different speech and accents from areas so near to each other.

It's a small island and we have always been a bunch of raging individuals. I wouldn't have it any other way, life is much too short to let things like that annoy us, get used to it and worry about something worth the hassle.

AubreyMac

tea_lover wrote: »

An evening meal. Unless you'd said "pop round for a cup of tea", in which case I'd expect said cup of tea and lots of biscuits

Either's fine... what time do you want me?

So is there such thing (to you) as afternoon or high dinner?

tea_lover

AubreyMac wrote: »

So is there such thing (to you) as afternoon or high dinner?

No. There's dinner (in the middle of the day), there's tea (in the evening), and there's tea as in the drink (at all times of day).

AubreyMac

When my Scottish born relatives visit, they love confusing me with their dialect, such as asking for 'ginger' which they mean a can of soft drink!

paddy's_mum

Using hung instead of hanged - even professional journalists make this error as in today's Daily Mail item regarding the woman who inspired Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles story.

AubreyMac

tea_lover wrote: »

No. There's dinner (in the middle of the day), there's tea (in the evening), and there's tea as in the drink (at all times of day).

But what about posh tea, with the fancy sandwiches and cream cakes on a stand? otherwise know as afternoon or high tea here.