Words that annoy me for no particular reason.

[DaveReading]

I know I've already listed 'bubble' on its own as an annoyance, but the increased usage of 'support bubble' is really getting on my nerves. I prefer to refer to this group as my family rather than a dehumanising term.

Your support bubble needn't be your family.

 

[JPBoothy]

Every Sports person seems to be "super excited" when interviewed these days!

Also, I have noticed that during our monthly Company presentation at work the main manager/boss pronounces the word 'little' as 'liddle' (to be fair he has worked in many countries and accents can mix I suppose) and low and behold now we have some lower level managers starting to say it as well

 

[RichardB]

Corona is pop, and always will be. Unless it's beer.

 

[DCBassman]

Corona is pop, and always will be. Unless it's beer.

Used to be Corona man, out of the Wandsworth plant. Missed it out of the day job thread...

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Numerous. Heard someone today on the radio say there were numerous ways of ........ what's wrong with many, a few, or several?????

 

[Gunk]

Remoaner

 

[mistyoptic]

Momentarily, in the context of “soon” instead of “for a moment “

its even worse than “I’ll be with you now”, which means nothing of the kind

 

[DaveReading]

Momentarily, in the context of “soon” instead of “for a moment “

That's what it means in American English. Blame them.

 

[PeteXXX]

From several shop assistants, recently, instead of 'thank you, goodbye' have assailed my ears with 'Have a nice rest of your day' ..

Almost English. Definitely gibberish!

 

[oldwheels]

"Over and out" makes me grind my teeth. It is a nonsense. Over expects a response and out means just that. Either one or the other but never the two together.

 

[mistyoptic]

That's what it means in American English. Blame them.

I do, when it comes to mangling the English language 😡

 

[RichardB]

"Over and out" makes me grind my teeth. It is a nonsense. Over expects a response and out means just that. Either one or the other but never the two together.

I work in a business where we use radios a lot, and most of the staff are not really trained in two-way radio etiquette. We get a lot of 'over and out' which elevates my urine to greater than 100 degrees C.

A lot of the staff who are used to radio protocol come from different backgrounds (Army, Navy, RAF, marine and even CB enthusiasts) so the variety of exchanges is bewildering. Choose between:

A to B, receiving? - Send.
B from A, receiving? - Receiving, go ahead.
John, John, it's Mike, can you hear me? - Yup.
A calling B, come back to me good buddy? - Gotcha, Rubber Duck, wall to wall and treetop tall.

And so on.

And don't start me on site-wide control calls when there is a genuine emergency. Awful.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

It's like the misuse of "roger", which of course means "I understood and acknowledge your message".

Somehow Hollywood has convinced everyone it means "yeah, I heartily agree", and must be followed by "that".
"That was a close call, pyrex pickle blowfish."
"Roger that, foxtrot underpants milkshake!"

 

[oldwheels]

Momentarily, in the context of “soon” instead of “for a moment “

its even worse than “I’ll be with you now”, which means nothing of the kind

American habit imported here.

 

[oldwheels]

I work in a business where we use radios a lot, and most of the staff are not really trained in two-way radio etiquette. We get a lot of 'over and out' which elevates my urine to greater than 100 degrees C.

A lot of the staff who are used to radio protocol come from different backgrounds (Army, Navy, RAF, marine and even CB enthusiasts) so the variety of exchanges is bewildering. Choose between:

A to B, receiving? - Send.
B from A, receiving? - Receiving, go ahead.
John, John, it's Mike, can you hear me? - Yup.
A calling B, come back to me good buddy? - Gotcha, Rubber Duck, wall to wall and treetop tall.

And so on.

And don't start me on site-wide control calls when there is a genuine emergency. Awful.

I don't know if it still applies but all my diving club members had to do a course and sit an exam before getting a certificate allowing us to use marine radio frequencies.