Phrases or sayings that annoy

DreederUK said:
Thats amongst my pet hates the improper use of Lend and Borrow...
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Umm... how do I use 'lend' and 'borrow' correctly then?

Can you lend me your pencil?

Can I borrow your pencil?

:help:
 
Can I borrow your French Newscaster.:naughty:


Naw, changed my mind. Just heard her and her R's are too soft!


:D
 
Innit....Grrrrrr it really grates on me.

Not sure about the Haitch/ aitch thing - I'm from Yorkshire so there's no such letter :lol:

As also mentioned earlier - people who pronounce 'th' as 'f'' - I just want to correct them all the time.

I probably grate on everyones nerves down here due to the whole north/south pronunciation thing eg bath / barth
 
kamion said:
Umm... how do I use 'lend' and 'borrow' correctly then?

Can you lend me your pencil?

Can I borrow your pencil?

:help:
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Exactly!! well done!

and I hate HAITCH as well....it makes me wince when I hear it!!

im afraid I also hate "....on purpose" instead of "for purpose". How can you do something ON a purpose??

And incorrect usage of the words,,,, INFER and IMPLY.
If somebody says something with an underlying theme that you are lazy...they IMPLY you are lazy. If that is what you are taking it to mean...then you are INFERRING. Grrrrr!!!!
 
digitalfailure said:
If I hear another middle manager tell me that they need to "kick some ideas around" or that we need to "think outside the box" before we "see what sticks"

I'll stick the box up their @$$ and kick gimp across the office :D
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Heheh! I heard a new one a few weeks ago and nearly fell off my chair. Wannabee corporate drone suggested we all have "A thought shower" to get some new ideas.

FFS! :bang: :bang: :bang:
 
innit
At the end of the day.....
BBC newsreaders who pronounce "says" as "sez"
Football chants
En-ger-land
With all due respect.... (if you think I'm wrong just tell me, I can take it)
 
Almost Exactly......

It's either one or the other, bot both! grrrr...Dom Burn from Radio 1 on the Chris Moyles show, boils my blood :(

Carl.
 
IT speak here... "leverage"...

Now, I always thought that leverage was something you applied to obtain some kind of result that you wanted. Since when did it become grammatically correct to use it as a verb?

"Innit"

Why???

ANY form of IT Project Management language - "Stake in the sand", "Move the goalposts", etc.

(Yes, I know, some of these have already been mentioned)
 
CarlOgden said:
Almost Exactly......

It's either one or the other, bot both! grrrr...Dom Burn from Radio 1 on the Chris Moyles show, boils my blood :(

Carl.
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Lol! but he does do that on purpose. The use of "off of" annoys me more, they all seem to be using it on radio 1 now!
 
"Get if FOR FREE" it should be "Get it free" not FOR FREE!


I think the Eng-er-land is done for a purpose as it has to have 3 syllables to fit the tune of "Here we go, here we go, here we go" etc. so I will forgive them that one!! LOL
 
Oh, I just remembered this guy who says "To be honest with you..." every other sentence! Makes me wonder if he's lying half the time when he doesn't say that he's being honest. :suspect:
 
jewel said:
The one word I cannot stand that EVERYONE around here says is "Dang!" That absolutely drives me up the freaken wall.
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Yrr DOOOMED I tell ye DOOOMED!

Tha's gona av t' move 'ouse and cuntry lass.

And thats mixin me accents.
 
Why do all the politicians now say, "Let be clear about this". :shrug:


..and then they aren't?
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Mother - "I'll take my hand off your face!"
 
Steep said:
Mother - "I'll take my hand off your face!"
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:lol: Would that happen to be from the same source as "bike, I'll give you bike" :lol:
 
Dark Star said:
People who pronounce the letter 'H' as 'Haitch' instead of 'Aitch'
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Dont get me goin...

However that reminds me of an Eddy Izzard radio apearance I was party to whilst home from work.
I should mention that I was working out in California ("Silicon Valley" TBP) and this was (re?)broadcast on one of the local stations. This was about 8 yrs ago.
There was and is a large Ex-Pat comunity over there ... this went down a storm...

Eddy was over promoting some show or other such nonsense.
Anyway the interview went something like this.

[Presenter]
So Eddy your show hinges on the differences between cultures. Can you give us an exmple?

[Eddy]
Well its the language thing that gets me.
'frinstance we say "Tomato" you say "TomAEtoe".
You say "Durex" we say "Cellotape"
We say "Poof" you say "Fag".
You say "Erb" we say "Herb" because there is a ********g H in it"

I almost drove off the Freeway...


Just done some research and...
This was his first big entry on the American scene. His previous tour, Glorious, had stopped in the U.S., but Dress to Kill was filmed in front of a San Francisco audience.
 
All sorts of buzz 'in' phrases, which I'm sure people practice for office meetings.

"So and so... is taking this on board"

" How can we impact on this situation?"

" Can I just float this across your pond?"

We now seem to have people in "An advanced state of criminality" "Thieving bastids" used to suffice.

And loads of others which really make my cack hang! :cuckoo:
 
It is Haitch, it's only Aitch for cockneys as they drop their Haitches.
On the subject of this letter,
we say A cake, but An apple because the word starts with a vowel. So can someone please explain An hotel. Why isn't it A hotel.
I've always said a hotel but when reading it in a book or magazine it always says an hotel.
Oh and it is sez not sais.
Wel it always has been where I come from.
 
CT said:
And loads of others which really make my cack hang! :cuckoo:
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Not heard that one! Some of these phrases really grip my sh!t though ;)
 
It seems like some of you have a difficulty in differentiating between English accents.

Seriously, some of you need to take a deep breath ;) If we all spoke the same perfect English (as all of the above people clearly do) life would be very dull.
 
Our new CEO is full of them

'Brain storming session'
"bring to the table"
"going great guns"
"jump through hoops"
"pro-active"
"actionable"
"incentivise"
"impact" (used as a verb)
"leverage" (used as a verb)
"there is an issue around..."
"take it to the next level"
"an exercise in box-ticking"
"out of the loop"

and the one that really makes me cringe

We must all 'Sing from the same hymn sheet'.

:bang: :bang: :bang:
 
The word "ballistic". Not in the military sense but in the "OH my God the cat is going ballistic!" I don't know it just bothers me.
 
How about people who say i brought a new car intead of bought a new car!!!!!!!!

Get it right can't you......
 
nilagin said:
It is Haitch, it's only Aitch for cockneys as they drop their Haitches.
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Sorry nilagin its Aitch check the dictionary...I'm talking about the letter not the use of it.

A,B,C,D,E,F,G,AITCH

However it shouldn't be 'owever! If you see what I mean.

Or are you 'aving me on :D
 
nilagin said:
It is Haitch, it's only Aitch for cockneys as they drop their Haitches.
On the subject of this letter,
we say A cake, but An apple because the word starts with a vowel. So can someone please explain An hotel. Why isn't it A hotel.
I've always said a hotel but when reading it in a book or magazine it always says an hotel.
Oh and it is sez not sais.
Wel it always has been where I come from.
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It should be a hotel not an hotel, I guess it has been written like that because that the was some folks speak by dropping the 'h'.

I must admit things like that don't really bother me, neither does the 'f' instead of 'th' as that is more down regional accents, which I like to hear.
 
I don't know why but it definitely is 'an hotel' - thats an odd one - I think there's a few more like that but I can't think of them at the mo'.

No idea why though!
 
"That went down like a lead balloon."
Intended to signify something unpopular/bad, but the one thing a lead balloon would be really good at would be going down!

Garnier Nutrisse advert - daft woman saying "Nutrisse means 'nourish'" - yeah, right. Exactly what language would that be in please?!? Not one I've ever heard of.

People who say "docile", instead of "dozy". Docile means calm or quiet and is more of a compliment than an insult.

When you've lost something (car keys, cmera cable release etc.) and someone says "It'll be in the last place you look". Well, duh - how many people do you know that go on looking for something after they've found it. How can it be in anything other than the last place you look!

I'm sure I'll think of more, but it's still early!
 
Is hotel a French word....which they pronounce as otel......... so we try to do it too?
 
Phrases don't bother me too much...

Its this stupid text talk that dus my ed in, why u lot fail to type liek you were tought gits rite up my nose..:(

Good thread BTW.:)
 
I get annoyed when people phone me up at work just to "touch base".

You're touching my what? :nono:

Also, missing the "t" out of numbers e.g. "twenney-four" :|
 
BBW said:
It seems like some of you have a difficulty in differentiating between English accents.

Seriously, some of you need to take a deep breath ;) If we all spoke the same perfect English (as all of the above people clearly do) life would be very dull.
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That's right. Everyone knows the Queens English is only spoken in the Highlands :D

Is that not right, boyo! :thumbs:




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