Words/sayings that get on your nerves!

[Pamper+Polish]

My husband insists on saying 'fink' or 'fing' instead of 'think' or 'thing'
SO ANNOYING!

I don't understand all of the 'down with the kids' nonsense either......I could be getting old!

 

[MissyMuffin]

'Give it up for blah blah'!!!!!

No, what's wrong with 'please welcome' or 'please thank' or 'give a round of applause' ??

What does 'give it up for' even mean?

 

[Sam81]

'Give it up for blah blah'!!!!!

No, what's wrong with 'please welcome' or 'please thank' or 'give a round of applause' ??

What does 'give it up for' even mean?

Haha! - Dermot O'Leary says that all the time on the X factor. By biggest irritation at the minute is Gary Barlow being incapable of saying performance, he always says 'prerformance'. Gets right on my nerves.

Mind you if that's the only thing winding me up right now life must be pretty good! (Except for the obvious fact of me wasting it watching the X factor! ).

 

[Martin Duffy]

I hate "if it's meant to be, it will be", because nine times out of ten, what they mean to say is that they can't be arsed to put the necessary effort in to achieve or get something, so they are going to rely on chance alone! But then I'm not a fan of fatalistic thinking.

 

[Candystarrstarr]

I hate "if it's meant to be, it will be", because nine times out of ten, what they mean to say is that they can't be arsed to put the necessary effort in to achieve or get something, so they are going to rely on chance alone! But then I'm not a fan of fatalistic thinking.

Lol this is so true!

 

[MissyMuffin]

My boss says 'mumf' instead of 'month'
Grrrr

 

[glamgirl]

My husband insists on saying 'fink' or 'fing' instead of 'think' or 'thing'
SO ANNOYING!

I don't understand all of the 'down with the kids' nonsense either......I could be getting old!

Somethink also bugs me! And when people say H... It's aitch not haitch!

 

[MissyMuffin]

How about when people say/write
'You could of done it' instead of
'You could HAVE done it'
Poor grammar is rife lol

 

[happyfeet]

The improper use of the word random. Oh that's so random. No it's not. Arrrrrghhh drives me insane.

... Or maybe I'm just being like totally random saying this?

No I'm not, and do you know why I'm not? Because that's exactly what this thread is about, so therefore I'm being anything but random!

Get a dictionary, read the meaning of the word, then use it properly or not at all!

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[salj]

I feel in good company with all the other grammar grouches on here! hahaha.

Oh my friend has one that drives me crazy - "no offence". She says it at the beginning of half her sentences and it just really doesn't apply 90% of the time. I'm now struggling to think of an example though.

Oh and "pacific" / "pacifically". Is specific really that hard to say?

Ha this is making me think of that friends episode where Chandler is worried that he's already met the right woman but he's dismissed her because she pronounces it supposably! And joey's talking to himself going, "Did they go to the zoo? Supposably."

 

[shelbie]

My friend always says "not being funny love" before nearly every sentence, and my 9 year olds new words and sayings that really grate me at the moment are "sick, boom, mint" and the best one is "oh my days"

 

[kirstys beauty]

I use to work in a pub where one guy would say sort of like loads and it really got on mine and the other barmaids nerves. We once counting in 20 minutes he had said sort of like 60 times.

Kirsty




"We put the treat in your treatment"

 

[MissyMuffin]

In a nearby town they say (and this is seriously annoying)
'Same as I say'
Instead of 'as I said'
Sounds dumb!

 

[Lilypie]

Pacific/specific
Should of instead of should have
My husband can't say opaque, and pronounces it opay-ik
Any sort of street sayings: two twos, out on road, bare, going extra. All of these make me want to rip my ears off.

And my most hated is when someone says 'that'll learn you'

 

[gillian w]

When my husbands out and about with his work his head office is based in Wales and instead of asking where are you now.They always say "where are you to" not that it annoys him but it just doesn't seem to make sense .
I heard Ness say it on Gavin and Stacey the other night as well.

 

[Mobile Manicure]

"Like" when it is used by a teenager repetitively.

"Like I was at the cinema and like Julie showed up and like we had popcorn and like coke and then the movie started and like it all went dark".

I heard a teenage girl being interviewed on Women's hour on radio 4 the other day and I was cringing. Full of like, like, like, like, like..... :irked:

 

[TheSprayTanner]

Ha! This is a good thread!

I can't stand when people include the word 'obviously' in lots of sentences when what their describing is not actually obvious.
Example: "so we went out and obviously I was too tired" but they have said nothing to indicate why they were tired??




Hayley Fitzgerald

 

[KHS]

People saying ...yeah..or init . At the end if every sentence,
And reading ( or attempting to read) text talk - think I'm getting old ha ha

 

[Christy.]

I can't say specifically. I have to really think about it 😳 Or remember! Comes out as renember! Oops!

 

[Gemster]

Pacific/specific
Should of instead of should have
My husband can't say opaque, and pronounces it opay-ik
Any sort of street sayings: two twos, out on road, bare, going extra. All of these make me want to rip my ears off.

And my most hated is when someone says 'that'll learn you'

I don't know if I don't understand these street sayings because we're from different areas or if I'm getting old 😩