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General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Toky on May 14, 2010, 17:39:14 PM
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It's PAC not PAC Code,
it's MAC not MAC Code,
it's PIN not PIN Number,
it's ATM not ATM Machine,
it's LCD not LCD Display,
it's DVD not DVD disc...
It's a lot not alot,
It's got not gotten...
It's three not free...
It's teeth not teef...
Panini is the plural of panino - there is no S!!
And it's espresso not expresso!!!!
Finally for all our Scottish TV presenters......
It's Emercency Services not Emurgency Surveces,
It's University not Univursity
It's England....not Inglind.
Got that off my chest!
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I think you mean 'Emergency Services' not Emercency Services. ;):D
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It's Tits not Chest. :D ;):D
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quote:
Originally posted by Toky
It's got not gotten...
quote:
gotten (verb) - past participle of gat
a. to have obtained "he had gotten a car for his 21st birthday"
b. to have become "I've gotten sick of your constant bickering"
(Collins English Dictionary)
Admittedly this is more commonly used in the USA than in the UK (where there is some use of the expression, for example by me) but this does not make it incorrect. Indeed, differing US and UK usage often signifies that the US remained with traditional UK use whilst we invented neologisms or discarded some of historically used words. Unfortunately I don't have an Oxford English Dictionary to hand in order to verify this supposition but my guess would be that "gotten" originated in England in the early part of the last millennium.
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Words that annoy me
I dont think it is the 'words' fault:D:D
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Oops Eric, silly me!
and another...
It's stronger/clearer,etc...... not more stronger, more clearer
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Originally posted by KKOB
It's Tits not Chest. :D ;):D
:) trust you.!
Gillet & Hicks & Drogba. ;)
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It Annoys me when people say Asdas and Mataland! and your right About PAC code, I hear it all day at work, drives me mad :)
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My mum says Mataland! Drives me mad, and I correct her every time :D In fact, the kids have started correcting her now [:o]
On a similar note, I hate the fact that so many people think that the most successful British pop artist ever is called Cliff Richards :-\
And in opposite style, people who only have money in the singular - "I paid a hundred and fifty pound" :(
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The one that really gets to me is the use of borrow instead of lend - 'borrow me a pound'!! It enrages me every time I hear it.
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Originally posted by jennyjo
The one that really gets to me is the use of borrow instead of lend - 'borrow me a pound'!! It enrages me every time I hear it.
I don't know anyone thick enough to say that 8)
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Bad English used by today's newsreaders.
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There's more! Snooty Tesco mobile customers who call in saying "I have one of your chips in one of your so called machines". Winds me up so much. It's a chuffing sim in a mobile phone you **#*#*! :D
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And for all our glaswegian readers
amur and amurnae, whoever heard such misuse words, for our English readers amur = i am and amurnae = i am not
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I except the challenge.
Where did youse go for lunch?
Have we got us passports?
Can I have a lend of your book?
He learned her to swim.
:o
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Originally posted by Jenny1
It Annoys me when people say Asdas and Mataland! and your right About PAC code, I hear it all day at work, drives me mad :)
What about "...going to THE Asda" Jenny.....infuriating eh!
Or how about " ....going to THE Le Bistro for dinner" ha ha ha......
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One expression that really annoys me is... "and he/she turned around and said"
I wonder where this idea of having a conversation with someone, then they physically turn
around and say something comes from?
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"Where do you catch the bus to?" meaning - where is the bus stop.
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what about the old favourite "i haven't got none"....
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"I brought them from Ebay"
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I aint dun nuffin
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Glad you said thick Kenkay and "Fick"
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Originally posted by chewyturk
I aint dun nuffin
Its not my fault, you lot cannt speak proper like wot I do.: :)
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People who say they have been to the "Grand Canaries"
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Im going up Asdas. I brought them off a friend. Youse lot. I got my new lippy in Bootses.
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Originally posted by kayakebab
Im going up Asdas. I brought them off a friend. Youse lot. I got me new lippy in Bootses.
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sorry wanted to change my to me and clicked quote instead of edit
sick innit
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I could of got them instead of I could HAVE got them! :o
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My mum-no matter how many times I tell her it's wrong-says PUMPTURE instead of puncture! Oh and LE L'Oreal!
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On those tv shows like the Jeremy Kyle one where people seem to think the plural of 'text' is something like 'textsis'.
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Mush-e-rooms and kekkle.......gggrrrrr!
Blimey, hadn't realised how easily irritated I can be!
oh, oh, yes and Scousers use "d" instead of "th" as in -
Dee doo doo doh don't dee doh
I'm allowed to criticise Scousers before anyone jumps up and down... I am one - but I can pronounce "th" ;)
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Originally posted by Bluwise
Mush-e-rooms and kekkle.......gggrrrrr!
Blimey, hadn't realised how easily irritated I can be!
oh, oh, yes and Scousers use "d" instead of "th" as in -
Dee doo doo doh don't dee doh
I'm allowed to criticise Scousers before anyone jumps up and down... I am one - but I can pronounce "th" ;)
Guilty as charged! I am always being told off for saying bokkle!! :D
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Someone I knew thought they were talking posh but always said "anythink" instead of anything. My daughter hates it when I say I am going to put my lippy on.
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Youth culture today starts every sentence wiv "at the end of the day" (and yes it was deliberate before yous a' start dae'n ma box in!!!"
:)
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Loose instead of lose!!!!
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Oh, I forgot...my daughted says jamp instead of jumped. What's that all about? :o
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My mum always says "salid" instead of salad, and "inturance" instead of insurance. Drives me insane (and I think she does it on purpose!), but she's not going to change now!!! :-\
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My mother in law (god rest her soul) would always say "Nelly Fustado". Her worst one was when I worked for Volvo she would say to people "Have you met my son in law, he works for Vulva !!"
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Another from the TV shows of the Jeremy Kyle format. The past tense of cheat, "Chet".
As in: "I don't cheat on her now but I have chet on her before".
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"Who's coat is this jacket ??"
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wicked means bad or evil not good
bad means bad and not good
U should be you
great not G8
and kieth you are watching too much Jeremy Kyle, you may be in need of professional help soon....
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I guess you've all finished with this topic but now the season has started and as I have to suffer the market these are my pet hate phrases
"Ow mooch"
"OW MOOCH!!!!"
"Pha ur avin a laugh mate"
"I can get it off him down there for 50p"
"yes exactly the same"
"youse can git eet in Primark for a £1"
"ur not doin urself any favours u no"
"yeah really £1 in Primark"
" ow mooch for 10"
"i aint got no money left"
"ow wud I get eet ome"
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not technically a word, but a phrase...."and ya know" my daughter uses this almost every other word, you have no idea how annoying it is!!!
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Self cleaning ovens ?
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Youth of today, they don't say "my mistake", they say "my bad" - I can't stand to hear it :(
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i hate it when you ask someone something and they say WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aaaaah that's WELL COOL[:(!]
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Over use of the word random.
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And in interviews the overuse of the word "obviously".
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and basically
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I was searching for something and stumbled upon this 2010 topic - a good one in my opinion. To reactivate it and add further irritating words or phrases - I can't stand people who use "meets" as a way of describing something (usually a film). A made up example being "Yes the film was good. It's like James Bond meets Star Wars" Idiots.
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Oh and my old boss who couldn't say specific. He would tell us about many pacific things.
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You can all think yourself lucky. Years ago when I worked for Volvo my dear mother in law (god rest her soul) once said in the middle of a busy restaurant "Have you met my son in law, he works for Vulva!"
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Spactacular instead of spectacular.
6am in the morning (when ELSE would 6am be?).
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kinda
like
The use of these words when they are added randomly to a sentence, as if to give emphasis, or even credibility to the statement being made. A bad habit picked up by stupid Brits from the good old US of A TV and films.
Drives me mad[:(!][:(!]
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and that
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Originally posted by usedbustickets
Drives me made[:(!][:(!]
People who add an 'e' to "Drives me mad". Drives me mad.
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Momento when they meant Memento
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annoying INNIT
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People who say 'Just telling it like it is'...They really mean 'This is my opinion'.
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Never use long words just impress people. On almost all occasions a diminutive one will suffice just as adequately.
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Originally posted by scouser2
People who say 'Just telling it like it is'...They really mean 'This is my opinion'.
Quite - and along the same lines, anything that begins "with all due respect" is generally followed by something that confirms there is no respect for the opinion of the person being spoken to.
I wonder if anyone has noticed how difficult it is to say a football team's name, compared to their city. One in particular - everyone can easily say "Manchester", but very few can manage to say "Manchester United" - it tends to be a rushed "Manchernited" or similar.
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and how many northeners can say Newcastle instead of Newcassel ;)
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Originally posted by Rindaloo
6am in the morning (when ELSE would 6am be?).
As far as I am concerned 6am is in the night.
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In my honest opinion ,normally reserved for the biggest bullcrapers going.
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or .... me myself personally [:(!]
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Originally posted by SteveJ
Never use long words just impress people
Or all of the words required for the sentence to read properly.
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Back in the day:(
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I can't stand msn language cause it makes me feel ancient.
cu, w8, brb, g2g
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I work with young people and they have a language all of their own!
"Diz ma box/heid in" (they are annoyed about something)
"Get aff ma case" (stop bothering me)
"Ya trumpet" (you are an idiot)
"Oot the game" (passed out/drunk)
"Oot their face" (have taken drugs)
"Get some Swally" (obtain some alcohol)
"Whur's the troopz" (I'm looking for my friends)
"Heavy gaun' man" (that was tougher than I thought)
And them I'm expected to compile a word perfect assessment report!!!!!
It certainly "does my box in!"
:D
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Wotsthemarrerwitchoo'.....Another way of saying 'is there a problem?'
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Idiots who say "Simples" - how many times does it have to be "simple" to become plural !!
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Alot. Simples ! ;)
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The pluralisation/possessivation of places that is rife home and abroad. Asda's, Anna's Bar, Obens, Matalans, to name just a few.
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Mine's - as in do you fancy coming over to......
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Originally posted by scouser2
Wotsthemarrerwitchoo'.....Another way of saying 'is there a problem?'
As in the words of Joe Dolce??:D
What's-a matter you, hey, gotta no respect
What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
Ah, shaddap you face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CODHZyvn83Q&feature=related
I love this!!
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I never knew Andy got a mention in that song
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He and Pauline really pushed the boat out for those fancy dress costumes ;)
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How many people say nuclear correctly, always nucular. Dussnowwarramayn, if tha dussner,rayd thbook Arfur Tow Crate in Staffy Cher
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Brought, bought.
Fought, thought.
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Thought soldiers fought a fight at a fort ?
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Who brought the fight to the fort though ?
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Train, It was the four forty four for Forfar fort.
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I thought so.
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Originally posted by Scunner
On those tv shows like the Jeremy Kyle one where people seem to think the plural of 'text' is something like 'textsis'.
And that the past tense of treated is "tret". Goodnight :)
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Last night's Eastenders "Evah" for Heather!!!! What's all that about?
:o
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Revert back and reverse back!
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Originally posted by Toky
Last night's Eastenders "Evah" for Heather!!!! What's all that about?
:o
We thought they were shouting 'HEFFER' in deference to her voluptuous stature!!
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Hate the Hun, (honey)its everywhere here at the moment,
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There's a few folk in Glasgow of the same opinion ;)
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Old topic but still a goodie. My mum made me think of it again. She was saying that she was out for lunch with friends at a local hotel, and were seated at a table sort of away from the main restaurant area.
"They treated us like leopards"...
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Lets hope they didn't try to cheetah ?
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That place needs a hotel inspector to do some spot checks.
I'll get ma jaiket.
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I've searched this topic out from the anals of CBF history to share with you my hate of people who say "Far from the maddening crowd".
I liked this topic :D
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A word that annoys me right now is KNOB!
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Its quite normal in West Yorkshire to say gotten and to talk about money singularly.. 150 pound would be normal for us to say at our house. It seems I have to apologise for the way we were brought up to speak. We miss a lot of words out of our sentences as well. Also quite normal.
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Its quite normal in West Yorkshire to say gotten and to talk about money singularly..
It seems I have to apologise for the way we were brought up to speak.
Don't think you should apologise for having a regional dialect, and that is what it is. Differing pronunciation is not the only factor in dialects - grammar, syntax and vocabulary all play their part in making up each individual dialect. So much so, that those who some may say (especially those who practice it) speak "proper" dont actually speak "proper", all they do is speak in a different dialect to you - and given the mongrel status of the UK in respect of heritage and language, whats to say that "ee bah gumm" or "howzit gaun bigman" aren't actually the proper versions and the plums in mouth (think Brian Sewell the art critic) aren't actually the lesser dialects...
Just sayin like.
JF
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Another Kyleism - Like y'know I like said like to her like y'know wot I mean like d'ya know him like? No wot I mean? - instead of - I asked if she knew him?
An Americanism on its way to the UK very soon - Where you at? - instead of - Where are you?
And what is it with tv presenters & newsreaders that they won't use the word 'one'? I've heard '.... the a hundred and fifty pounds' & '..... the a thousand people' what next? not say any numbers and replace them with the letter a? I can't wait to hear two thousand pronounced as '..... the a a thousand'! :-\ 8)
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I noticed a lot of people on Forums when asking a question say "I was just wandering". Wandering and wondering have merged into one word with the same meaning.
Also the expression "At the end of the day" used as meaning finally, wonder (or wander) where this one came from. Had a friend years ago who used this expression all the time.
I also note on Scottish T.V. people never say iron, it's always pronounced I Ron (sounding like they are saying I am Ron). However, I quite like this, as it's said the way it's spelled pronouncing the "r" as us English say ion and miss out the "r".
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I thought I Ron was always followed by Bru in Scotland ? The same as See was always followed by You.
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No KKOB In Scotland See you is always followed by Jimmy.. ;D ;)
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And what's a sangwich?
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In my experience, the Welsh finish every statement with - Isn't it? :o
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In my experience, the Welsh finish every statement with - Isn't it? :o
Most of them just say 'Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' ;)
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wheeeeere's eeeeee toooo theeeeen, as they do say down eeeeer in Wiltshire
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Just heard Alan Curbishley on Sky Sports discussing a potentially explosive match this weekend. "There's no need to touch the fusepaper" apparently.
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You need to look at Cabrach Radio on facebook, see if you know what they say lol
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People who will insist on writing "We where going to the restaurant", !!!! >:( >:(
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The best way to console idiots like that is
"There, They're, Their"
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Grammar: The difference between knowing your sh*t and knowing you're sh*t.
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Don't you just hate it when people think there clever but use the wrong granma?
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I no
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and as for pple who write in txt spk. OMG!
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In my experience, the Welsh finish every statement with - Isn't it? :o
erm! I don't!
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And the Northern Irish confirm everything they have just said, so they do.
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to be sure, to be sure
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I passed a cafe in the Black Country last week and a board
out on the pavement read : We am open : !!! :)
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They must have got a non-Yam-Yam to write that for 'em.
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I used to work for a company with a head office in Bristol, Their sayings were great, they added an L on the end of a lot of words, a work area became a work areal, and one guy broke down and told me he had to ring "the A the A" to come and rescue his stranded car.
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People writing peninsular instead of peninsula
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I hate txt spk
I hate the way predictive text alters what you meant to say
I hate the way people add "innit" to a sentence, what's that all about ?
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It's street innit!
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I'm non the wiser KKOB
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.... or even none the wiser !
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I absolutely hate drawring!
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No wander !
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I have discovered that I am more easy going than I thought... The way people speak doesn't annoy me.. and I don't judge people on how they spell as they may not have had a great education. There are loads of things that DO annoy me but the every day trivia not any more..
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Can someone put "thimurgen" heater on, theres no bloody hot water left !!!!
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Somethink instead of something
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Drawing not drawring.
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Who will win the big match today Tiggsy - are you nervous ?
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Who will win the big match today Tiggsy - are you nervous ?
Always nervous derby day. All City fans have suffered at the hands (or rather feet) of United. I always expect the reds to win, such is their pshycological grip. I havn't seen a convincing performance since the Newcastle game and therefore forecast City 1-2 United. However times they are a changing, 'Typical City' hopefully is becoming a thing of the past.
Sorry to deviate from the thread.
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.... they are a'changing - good result for you.
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How on earth did that topic get round to b----y football?
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Words that annoy me- Football !
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back on topic, Secketary instead of Secretary
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'bezzie' for best friend! >:(
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People that answer a question with the word "ABSOLUTELY" innit !! >:( >:( >:(
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Crisps not crips
Ask not aks
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Sorry Menthol - I am not following :-[
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Street speak I think. Like some from Lancashire say hospical as opposed to hospital.
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People use the words as in:
'I just aks you if you want a packet of crips?'
Often used by the same people that use 'innit' a lot. I think it stems from Jamaican dialect but is used by people who don't even know where Jamaica is.
The same as people saying 'I is going into town'.
As Toky says - street speak, innit? (hate 'hospical' - agh!)
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The best way to console idiots like that is
"There, They're, Their"
I didn't want to say this (for fear of sounding like the teacher I am/was): but KKOB said it first, so there! Just for the record: "They're always telling me to put their things over there".
While on the subject, stray apostrophes finding their (see!) way into plurals e.g. plural's. No!!
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Its also such a British thing that cafes and bars get so wrong.......Paninis!! Panini is already the plural of Panino. Expresso coffee......just so wrong!
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I put up with driving past a greengrocer's shop dyslexic sign for 2 days until I could bear it no more.
I pulled up, went in, asked the young girl for a marker pen and a new sign and wrote, 'FUCHSIA'. I went outside and discarded the sign that read, 'Fioshers'.
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;D
People who will insist on writing "We where going to the restaurant", !!!! >:( >:(
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quote] Just can't think who gets this wrong on every occasion !
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I put up with driving past a greengrocer's shop dyslexic sign for 2 days until I could bear it no more.
I pulled up, went in, asked the young girl for a marker pen and a new sign and wrote, 'FUCHSIA'. I went outside and discarded the sign that read, 'Fioshers'.
Ha, love it.
The kids have been mortally embarrassed a couple of times when we've been eating somewhere with the menu written on a blackboard and whoever did it has insisted on random apostrophes in their plurals....
Eg: Fish & chip's
Steak & onion pie with carrot's and pea's
....because I have walked up to the blackboard and rubbed them out/corrected spelling. Drives me nuts.
The best (or worst!) one I saw recently was at a fairly new restaurant in town that was offering "Leak & pee risotto"... :o ;D :o
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they are all so funny, I must admit I get irritated by cafes that serve teas and coffees, singular is fine thanks!!
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they are all so funny, I must admit I get irritated by cafes that serve teas and coffees, singular is fine thanks!!
That's rather anal if you don't mind me saying so, Angela.
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they are all so funny, I must admit I get irritated by cafes that serve teas and coffees, singular is fine thanks!!
That's rather anal if you don't mind me saying so, Angela.
I don't mind at all, it sums up me and my life very nicely ;D
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Seen on a Facebook local selling site..."wanted, chester draws". If it wasn't so pathetic, it would be funny
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The number of Manchester United fans who can't even say it - it's more of a "Manchernited".
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I prefer "Manky Urinals", that should be easy enough!!! :)
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newsreaders who say NUCULAR >:(
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Gary Barlow cannot say performance. He says preformance.
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People who say perscription instead of prescription. Though I used to know a little boy who said his mummy had gone to the chemist to get his description! Same little boy also used to call our apartment the department! So cute you hate to put them right! ;) ;D
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And why do so many people have difficulty with pronouncing ibuprofen?
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And why do so many people have difficulty with pronouncing ibuprofen?
My MIL is one of them. She calls it 'ibrufren'. : :)
My current annoyance is another random apostrophe with added random capital letter - so many people (a worrying number of them teaching assistants :o ) keep writing Christmas Dec's.
Grrrr! >:(
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Slightly off topic but the last post reminded me of something. When it comes to writing end of term reports, it must get very boring for the teachers after a while.
When you have twins in the same classes you learn just how much of it is copy & paste :(
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I hear some hilarious pronunciations of tablet names, they think if they say it quick enough I won't notice.
Secketary instead of secretary irritates me too!!
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One of my pet hates the 'aks' instead of 'ask' explained here with help from Chaucer
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/12/03/248515217/why-chaucer-said-ax-instead-of-ask-and-why-some-still-do
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Lots of folks say Febury instead of February. Does ma heid in!!
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Why do so many young people like to sound like gangsters (or gangstas)? Commonly used is fa va for father!!!! So flaming ignorant!
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Does it also wind you up when people refer to you as Scotch instead of Scottish ?
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People who believe the plural of pound is pound.
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What, like not saying "It is a ten pounds note"?
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No, like saying "It cost me ten pound". :)
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Dialect and basterdising the English language are two different things. Young people copy what they repeatedly hear on TV so Coronation Street, Eastenders and the Only Way is Essex all have a part to play in this. Then there is texting: young people abbreviate everything and they end up speaking that way too. It was once the case that people from Inverness were regarded as the people who spoke the 'best' BBC English.
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Yeah, innit.
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Sick
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wander gets me too - as does of in place of have!
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What about a person who is in a television programme being "from off of" Eastenders or whatever.
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Now you're really scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Eastenders ffs!
'Av a word wiv yoorself Keefy !
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Vis fred is reem. ;D
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Don't get that 1 at all!!
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Reem = Gorgeous, sexy, nice. It's from TOWIE.
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Don't get that 1 at all!!
Phew - I thought it just to be I (watching Ripper Street)
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Adebolajo and Michael
"Annoy" just doesn't come close as a description of course - agggghhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:(
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Check you KKOB!!!! Big TOWIE fan then? ;)
I've never been called Scotch to be honest, most educated people know that's a drink. I've been called a Jock though, but it never bothered me and wouldn't again.
:)
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Check you KKOB!!!! Big TOWIE fan then? ;)
Nah, but I do know how to Google.
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I made the mistake of calling a scottish boy in my class at school scotch, I would never make that mistake again!!