Words that annoy me

[Scunner]

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"...

[KKOB]

Lets hope they didn't try to cheetah ?

[amca]

That place needs a hotel inspector to do some spot checks.


I'll get ma jaiket.

[Scunner]

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".

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[Shamless2]

A word that annoys me right now is KNOB!

[mercury]

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.

[JohnF]

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

[Hamlet]

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'! 

[Jacqui Harvey]

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".     

[KKOB]

I thought I Ron was always followed by Bru in Scotland ? The same as See was always followed by You.