Words that annoy me for no particular reason.

[mistyoptic]

More a phrase than a word

”the below”

what is a below? Apparently I can have “two each of the below” if I accept a recent email offer. I’ve seen it also in the context of “I agree with the below”

 

[sheddy]

Wrong thread, but I do get annoyed with radio announcers preferring to say accident rather than collision.

 

[Edwardoka]

I am replying to the below

More a phrase than a word

”the below”

what is a below? Apparently I can have “two each of the below” if I accept a recent email offer. I’ve seen it also in the context of “I agree with the below”

This is a reply BTL (below the line)

 

[matticus]

Mouthfeel

(don't know if 1 word or 2)

 

[Chris S]

When little and hospital are pronounced 'lickle' and 'hospickle'.

Makes me want to rip their teeth out

That's fake Jamaican.

 

[Chris S]

Eroica.

 

[Jenkins]

Influencers
YouTube star

 

[mudsticks]

Do you also love, 'le weekend?'

Bien sure, j'adore le weekend.

 

[mudsticks]

Nestled

Oh I like nestled.

And 'nestling' if it comes to it..

If I can indulge and have two words this time.... it's the use of the words "fresh" and "fish" together. It seems to give people satisfaction to say "fresh fish", and the words are always used combined, in supermarket adverts, in cookery programmes. But what other type of fish would supermarkets be trying to sell you, or would TV cooks be cooking with? Fish that's something less than fresh? Definitely gone past its best fish? Rancid fish? Fish crawling with maggots? Of course not. More redundant bollocks, just because it sounds a certain way and marketers think that'll appeal.
You don't hear "fresh chicken" in quite the same way, it's assumed that chicken that you cook will be fresh regardless.

'Fresh' fish, as opposed to the tinned stuff

Perhaps ??

 

[newfhouse]

Texies.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Around here some refer to buses as 'buzzes'. There's a bloke i know of who refers to Middlesbrough as 'Migglesburra'.

 

[slowmotion]

Misspoke.

aka "I lied"

 

[newfhouse]

Misspoke.

aka "I lied"

And got caught.

 

[sheddy]

Celebrity

 

[DCBassman]

Train staff/announcers saying "we are arriving into..." One arrives AT.