Words or phrases that annoy you

girlsmum

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

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

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 .