Words or phrases that annoy you

londonmark07799

When someone says "I don't mean to be rude, but"
When we all know you do intend to be rude.

mark5

A popular Welsh one,

I'll be there now, in a minute!

HoM51

How can phonetic be spelled like this? It's own definition says it's Fonetic!

As for hypoallergenic, it's just a big word that means less than half of those tested (usually very few) had an allergic reaction. Advertising rubbish.

Chlorine7

Yesterday my friend referred to her OH as a floofy. Someone asked her what a floofy was and she replied with a pic of the both of them edited with the word floofy with hearst and arrows directed at him. She's 33.

Floofy! Seriously??

BNT

mark5 wrote: »

A popular Welsh one,

I'll be there now, in a minute!

In Nigeria people would tell me 'I'm coming' as they walk away. It meant 'I am going away but will come back very shortly'.

Coinmachine

......Icky

pollypenny

Using 'bring' instead of 'take', it's an Americanism which seems to have become established here in the last year.

Angry_Bear

Bumblies wrote: »

You cannot over-estimate how much I detest people using "under-estimate" when they mean the exact opposite.

You cannot over-state how much I detest people using over-estimate when they really mean over-state .

splishsplash

pollypenny wrote: »

Using 'bring' instead of 'take', it's an Americanism which seems to have become established here in the last year.

Not just an Americanism - in Ireland bring and take is not linked to direction but rather possession. It's correct to say bring your car to the garage tomorrow (because you own it), or take this money and put it in your pocket (because it's now yours and no longer mine).

bigpat

I hate it when people refer to their DD or their DS or whatever. It seems very prevalent on this forum (so I risk making myself unpopular here.)

For a long time I couldn't even figure out what it meant!