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Words or phrases that annoy you

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  • girlsmum
    girlsmum Posts: 472 Forumite
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    BNT wrote: »
    One of the ones that annoys me is people using 'shop' for shopping'; as in 'I'm doing a shop' for 'I'm going shopping'.

    When my mother-in-law said she was going to do a shop, I had visions of her down there with my father-in-law's air rifle trying to empty the till. In my day, 'doing a shop' or 'doing a bank' would involve wearing stockings over your head and result in the police being called.

    :rotfl::rotfl: When someone says that to me I respond, "What are you going to do to it?"
    I loathe bad grammar, writing in abbreviations and bad spelling, one of my Facebook friends keeps updating her status with things like “haveing a great time”….it really annoys me.
  • BNT
    BNT Posts: 2,788 Forumite
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    girlsmum wrote: »
    I loathe bad grammar, writing in abbreviations and bad spelling.

    I'm less bothered about abbreviations, but I do get worried when people abbreviate 'et cetera' to 'ect'. I used to think it was just a typo, but I have seen it multiple times in the same post.
  • londonmark07799
    londonmark07799 Posts: 1 Newbie
    When someone says "I don't mean to be rude, but"
    When we all know you do intend to be rude.
  • mark5
    mark5 Posts: 1,365 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    A popular Welsh one,

    I'll be there now, in a minute!
  • HoM51
    HoM51 Posts: 1 Newbie
    Fourth Anniversary
    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
    Chlorine7 Posts: 256 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    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
    BNT Posts: 2,788 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    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
    Coinmachine Posts: 225 Forumite
    ......Icky
    I'm a greenfield sight for sore eyes, and sore eyes are just needing the light, the shapes, and the shadows of the space we share, before it splits into Thin Air.
  • pollypenny
    pollypenny Posts: 29,441 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Using 'bring' instead of 'take', it's an Americanism which seems to have become established here in the last year.
    Member #14 of SKI-ers club

    Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.

    (Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
  • Angry_Bear
    Angry_Bear Posts: 2,021 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker PPI Party Pooper
    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 ;).
    Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
    ― Sir Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015
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