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Words or phrases that annoy you
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When someone says "I don't mean to be rude, but"
When we all know you do intend to be rude.0 -
A popular Welsh one,
I'll be there now, in a minute!0 -
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.0 -
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??0 -
......IckyI'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.0
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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!)0 -
You cannot over-state how much I detest people using over-estimate when they really mean over-stateYou cannot over-estimate how much I detest people using "under-estimate" when they mean the exact opposite.
. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
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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).I'm an adult and I can eat whatever I want whenever I want and I wish someone would take this power from me.
-Mike Primavera.0 -
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!0
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