Words or phrases that you hate ...

[SteCenturion]

I have a couple more.

Addicting. I only really hear this from Americans and it may well be proper use of English but I don't like it. I was taught that "I am addicted to cycling because cycling is addictive" but that becomes "I am addicted to cycling because cycling is addicting" which I hate.

Another one I hate that may well be proper use of English is "got" as in "I've got a new bike". Surely "I have a new bike" is more concise, it certainly sounds better, and if "got" in this context means "bought" then it becomes "I bought a new bike". I just don't like the sound of "I've got..." and feel that it's now being used by lazy people instead of other perfectly good verbs.

I am lazy, "got a new bike", doesn't sound as good as "have" but I am working class & it isn't all that bad.

I have to agree with "addicting" though, it is truly horrible, I 'got' "beef" with that "innit".

Oh & don't get me started on T#@T$ that say niche as "nich" & not neesh.

or Clique as kleek (yes it might be correct) instead of klik, just sounds pompous & very luvvy darling to my Northern sensibilities.

 

[hopless500]

I see we agree on some things but not your pointless use of the hyphen.

Except both of those hyphens are perfectly correct.

 

[Mrs M]

Thanks = thanx

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

After today's ride, signs that say, " Mud on the road," or " Warning! Mud!" displayed by people who think this therefore exempts them from having to clear up the mess they're responsible for in the first place!!!!

 

[hopless500]

I say we call it lunch and nuke Somerset.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Is there still a mini-section in Private Eye about this?

Hang on...



....no, can't see it.

Like this though.

 

[SteCenturion]

[QUOTE 3407883, member: 259"]We used duck, but you could also say 'yowth' for anyone male under about 50![/QUOTE]
Who says "Marra" <spelling> ?

N.E somewhere, Middlesbrough or somewhere ?

 

[SteCenturion]

Yeh thats proper supper. Ovaltine, Marmite butty and Barry Norman on the telly.

I was asked around someone elses a while ago for "a bit of supper".... I nearly asked if I should bring my dressing gown*.

* Before punching them on the nose and never speaking to the pretentious twonks ever again.

 

[SteCenturion]

Yes, and "pre-pay in advance", pre-planned" and "pre-call" have all been pre-posted.

GC

pre-sumptious

 

[Moon bunny]

Who says "Marra" <spelling> ?

N.E somewhere, Middlesbrough or somewhere ?

West Cumbria, Whitehaven and Workington, and under the influence of Sellafield workers, spreading over the rest of Cumbria

 

[hopless500]

Who says "Marra" <spelling> ?

N.E somewhere, Middlesbrough or somewhere ?

Nottingham, youth.

(Good friend who died a few years back used it to buggery)

 

[Maverick Goose]

''Change going forward''...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

pre-sumptious

-posterous!

 

[craigwend]

The use of the word 'hate' when 'that mildly irritate you' is more apt makes me want to go and decimate everyone.

 

[hopless500]

[QUOTE 3408759, member: 259"]Never heard it said in Notts, but there are a fair few Geordies living there.[/QUOTE]
He wasn't a Geordie. Born in Nottingham.
But I've also never heard a Geordie say it.