Words/phrases that irritate you.

chasm

Up de Barrs wrote: »

Great Aunt, Great Uncle, very Englishy, its Gran Aunt, Gran Uncle.

It's Grand not gran!
Grand Aunt/Uncle is your grandparent's brother or sister, whereas Great-grandparent's brother or sister would be you Great-grand Aunt/Uncle.

woysworld

"going forward" "thinking outside of the box"...

orourkeda

People who simply refuse to pronounce their words correctly.

Wealth Rate is not pronounced well freight.

Growth is not pronounce Gross.

Pit is not pronounced piss.

Micilin Muc

chasm wrote: »

It's Grand not gran!
Grand Aunt/Uncle is your grandparent's brother or sister, whereas Great-grandparent's brother or sister would be you Great-grand Aunt/Uncle.

Your Great Aunt and your Grand Aunt are the same people. Look up the dictionary.

chasm

Micilin Muc wrote: »

Your Great Aunt and your Grand Aunt are the same people. Look up the dictionary.

Re-read my post! I never claimed otherwise!!

Sir Gallagher

People who say "cuppa" when talking about tea.

"Oh i just think i'll have a cuppa", "Fancy a cuppa".

Mainly said by smug self satisfied women who will proceed to sit there with their "cuppa" and their jumpers pulled down by their hands and both hands wrapped around the cup telling anybody who'll listen about their completely mundane lives.

Horrible, horrible people.

CorsetIsTight

"It's well for some."

Usually said by the sort of person who can't bear to see anyone else being happy.

billymitchell

K-9 wrote: »

Just touching base here.

I absolutely hate that phrase :mad:

Superbus

Not pronouncing 'issue' as 'ish-oo', and tissue as 'tish-oo'. Whatever the correct version is, the newsreader style ('iss-you', 'tiss-you') is pretentious as hell.

Reganio 2

"Expect the unexpected"

I can't no one can, its impossible made all the more worse by it being on every day after 9. You can't expect something that's unexpected.. Then its expected.

uvox

Similar thoughts in Daily Mail recently (makes a change from collapsing property prices):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282449/Americanisms-swamping-English-wake-smell-coffee.html

I'd agree with "Do the math"

maryxyz

"you guys" when addressed to a mixed group is my pet hate !

Maryxyz

Boydsey14

Cork people who say "Ye"...As in; Are ye going out tonight. NO!!! I'm poxywell
not!!!!!

TV3s Alan Hughes - who can't stop saying "Literally." Poor Simpleton...

Bill O'Herlihy saying "Oke Doke." or tonight's "live" game - Please Retire!!!!

Gunsfortoys

Anything in any dublin accent.

cbyrd

At the end of the day....

jaysus lads

in that..:mad:

y'know
and ten thousand exclaimation marks just in case you didn't get the point
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

y'know jaysus lads at the end of the day i'll go to bed so, in that, i can go to sleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







fúck off :pac:

WesternZulu

Twat!!

Sounds terrible when not in an English accent.

crowdflash

That whole Wesley Disco lingo. Stuff like:

"Cracking my hole, loike"

ricman

THE word like, i was like saying this,and he was like saying that, continues ad infinitum.I Listen to podcasts and otherwise intelligent people seem to have only 3 words for a good game/film, awesome,cool,excellent ,obviously you are not allowed used words like brilliant,fantastic,great ,amazing in the usa
everything is either cool or its awful.
Some people cannot talk for 3minutes without using the word cool.
IT becomes annoying.
People who have never been in the usa ,using american slang, like guys,awesome , it just sounds strange to me.
People who go on rte, and say ,im not fluent, i,ve got cupla focail.Amazing ,you spent 7 years learning irish,and you picked up a few sentences ,what an incredibly smart person you are
i thought travellers just used the word boss ,when talking to non travellers.

i think journalists just write the same articles on certain subjects every year , the rose of tralee,irish music festivals, galway races etc they just
change a few sentences,names ,its money for old rope.

Canard

Also, the word poxy. It never bothered me til dip****s started saying it all the time'

'Cant poxy do dis' 'Cant poxy do dat' 'Feel poxy ' 'I'm poxy sick'

S.T.F.U.

Deus Ex Machina

CorsetIsTight wrote: »

*FYP

Also, do yourself a favour and google "etymology of several".

Forget the etymology, the definition is clearly at odds with this understanding of the word.

saywhatyousee

"you are now leaving schipol airport" :(

Asphyxia

spudd wrote: »

people saying ROFL drives me nuts also hate the word moist. gives me shivers :eek:

Ugh! I am with you there on both of those also the word "bum" is strange, I find it really hard to say haha, I usually just say arse!!!

starlit

text speak in emails, on social networking sites and in general conversation!

NoHornJan

Leave that immediately and come in for your dinner !!!!

jennytightlips

saywhatyousee wrote: »

"you are now leaving schipol airport" :(

haha so true!!

vampire of kilmainham

lisbon_lions wrote: »

"Let's call a spade a spade" - what else are you going to fcuking call it?

"Awesome" and its over usage by Americans gets on my wick. "Thats like, so awesome, high five" - five knuckles is what i'll give ye.

You could call it a shovel, TAKE YOUR PICK:D:D:D

vampire of kilmainham

OMG YIS ARE ALL AWSOME :D:D

Raedwald

Hate people who use "k" at the end of there messages and "haha" after every sentence as if they are after saying something funny.

On the whole "like" topic. This drives me insane. I have been to lecture were highly intelligent students have attempted to answer questions and 70% of what they have said is just the word "like".

vampire of kilmainham

f0ggy92 wrote: »

lol rofl lmao


what ever happened to haha?:mad:

IAM ROFFL:D:D:D

Roxy.Randrome

Water, pronounced Wah-a. It drives me mental. :mad:

Crips instead of crisps.... It's pronounced CRISPS people! CRISPS!!!

Joshing. Frankly, I haven't a clue where that one comes from, although it seems to be American. I can't understand why people just can't stick to saying joking or kidding.