Words that annoy me

[Toky]

Street speak I think. Like some from Lancashire say hospical as opposed to hospital.

[Menthol]

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!)

[ArtyMar]

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!!

[Toky]

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!

[Menthol]

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'.

[scorcher]

 

People who will insist on writing "We where going to the restaurant", !!!!
[/
quote]  Just can't think who gets this wrong on every occasion !

[WordBird]

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"... 

[angela]

they are all so funny, I must admit I get irritated by cafes that serve teas and coffees, singular is fine thanks!!

[Menthol]

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.

[angela]

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