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Words that bug you - written or spoken

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  • #202
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Spread wrote: »
    In most establishments over here ......... you're asked if you want coffee ....... then the waiter/waitress/barista pours a cupfull (free refills) ....... it's up to you to add the milk, honey, marshmallows etc. :)


    That's the old fashioned and sensible way to do it.


  • #203
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Questionable? wrote: »
    LOL...
    And even worse, smiley faces.

    Hi Q. I didn't always use smilies but sometimes other posters misunderstood my posts so I had to introduce smilies to explain whether I was joking or not. So I suppose I was dragged into it really.


  • #204
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Alice1


    They did it again on "Come dine with me". The pronounced "scallops" as "scollops" - it is scAllops for goodness sake.


  • #205
    0lddog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    Medaled / Medaling ( or is it Medalled / Medalling ? )

    As in So-and-so has medaled ....... in the Olympics

    Do they really mean meddled ?


  • #206
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    0lddog wrote: »
    Medaled / Medaling ( or is it Medalled / Medalling ? )

    As in So-and-so has medaled ....... in the Olympics

    Do they really mean meddled ?

    Aargh, that's a horrible invention! What is the obsession with making verbs out of nouns?


  • #207
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Alice1


    looksee wrote: »
    Aargh, that's a horrible invention! What is the obsession with making verbs out of nouns?
    Or indeed vice versa; making nouns out of verbs - the one that really makes my ears hurt is "It's a big ask". Lookit, ask is a verb and always was a verb. It wants to be a verb. It works well as a verb.


  • #208
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,802 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    A notion that has come from England but is here now, referring to shop assistants as 'colleagues'. Voice over speaker: 'Would a colleague please come to the help desk' or 'one of the colleagues will be pleased to help you'.

    Its a description of a relationship for heavens sake! 'You and I are colleagues', not a job description, but that is how they are using it.


  • #209
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Surrealality - someone actually said that on the radio last week.


  • #210
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    mike65 wrote: »
    Surrealality - someone actually said that on the radio last week.

    Some people think it is ok to make words up. I wonder how big a dictionary will be in 50 or 100 years due to everyone making up words. Is 'functionality' a word now? I thought it was merely 'function'? Simple.


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  • #211
    TeletextPear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭TeletextPear


    Personally, I think.... or In my opinion, I think....
    Obvious it's your opinion if you think it, no need to say so! :mad:


  • #212
    ootbitb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    tyre thread:eek:


    don't know if it has been mentioned already but there is a word used by the OP that irritates me..


  • #213
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    When people simply don't like a warning ......ahhhh he's 'negative'...
    or you say something easy to understand.......ahhhh he's 'simplistic..'.
    there are loads more of the 'don't-trouble-me-with-reality' terms that are PC and in Vogue at the present time ....like 'narrowminded' and i'd love to see a book out exposing the verbal slooosh and hyperbole and other nonsense that we use today often because we simply do not think enough about what we believe .People are foolish not bad .


  • #214
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭trashcan


    odds_on wrote: »
    Some words that really bug me:
    Spoken:
    .... dude

    Written:
    .... would of (and all similar "of"s which should be "have").

    And in general the poor state of spelling on so many forums, (there for their etc). I don't believe that these are typos but poor spelling by the posters.

    I also hate all text message abbreviations.

    You're singing my song here. "Would of" etc really, really, really annoys me. Not knowing when to use "there" their" or "they"re is another pet hate of mine. Lots of the other stuff mentioned in the thread here doesn't actually bother me too much though.


  • #215
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    ootbitb wrote: »
    tyre thread:eek:


    don't know if it has been mentioned already but there is a word used by the OP that irritates me..
    Being the OP, I have never used "tyre thread"; unless, of course, you are not using OP (Original Poster) as I understand it.

    I've noticed recently that "two" is being pronounced more and more like "Chew". And so many commentators/hosts on Irish radio have got into what I call lazy English ..... walkin', doin'. What ever happened to good diction?


  • #216
    zef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 947 ✭✭✭zef


    'Lets meet up next week and "touch base".'
    We have no "bases" to touch. Office-y talk that as crossed the Atlantic. It sounds vaguely sexual as well :)


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  • #217
    franc 91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭franc 91


    When I listen to BBC Radio Four, and more particularly The Today programme (yes that's how I spell it) there are several expressions that they use that irritate me - this week I heard - 'it's up for grabs' - surely there must be a more elegant way of expressing that idea? and 'What's your take on...?' Couldn't they use words such as - What's your view of...? What is your opinion of....? What do you think of...? What is your understanding of the situation? What impression do you have of ....? and so on - and lastly - 'Do you buy into it?' which I'm sure could be expressed differently - Do you accept...? Do you agree ...? Do you find it acceptable? etc


  • #218
    zef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 947 ✭✭✭zef


    ootbitb wrote: »
    tyre thread:eek:


    don't know if it has been mentioned already but there is a word used by the OP that irritates me..

    Is it "bug"? Not my favourite word in that context, I would prefer 'annoy', 'irritate', etc.


  • #219
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    zef wrote: »
    Originally Posted by ootbitb viewpost.gif
    tyre threadeek.png


    don't know if it has been mentioned already but there is a word used by the OP that irritates me..
    Is it "bug"? Not my favourite word in that context, I would prefer 'annoy', 'irritate', etc.
    Ahhhhhh!! Gotcha


  • #220
    trashcan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭trashcan


    looksee wrote: »
    Aargh, that's a horrible invention! What is the obsession with making verbs out of nouns?

    Agree totally. A particularly horrible example, and another of my pet hates is the use of "trousered" as a verb, e.g, "he's trousering 200K a year" Grrr. It's not even a word for chrissakes.


  • #221
    Grandad Himself
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Grandad Himself


    Didn't have a foreign holiday this year [which sounds like I have one every other year. Hah!]. The next person to ask if I had a "staycation" will have to extract his teeth from the sole of my boot.


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  • #222
    Ellsbells
    Closed Accounts Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Ellsbells


    'awesome', '24/7' and 'Mom' - we are not American so why try to speak like we are grrrrrrr

    Then you get 'I seen' and 'I done'. I know a teacher who speaks like that. It's so irritating.


  • #223
    ootbitb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    odds_on wrote: »
    Being the OP, I have never used "tyre thread"; unless, of course, you are not using OP (Original Poster) as I understand it.

    I've noticed recently that "two" is being pronounced more and more like "Chew". And so many commentators/hosts on Irish radio have got into what I call lazy English ..... walkin', doin'. What ever happened to good diction?


    I was referring to the word "bug" .:)


  • #224
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    ootbitb wrote: »
    I was referring to the word "bug" .:)
    Yes, I got it - eventually. See my post #219


  • #225
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Once, during a discussion on the subject of housekeeping and cleaning, a woman I worked with at the time, said "when it comes to cleanliness, I'm anal". I had never heard the word in that context before and could not relate 'cleanliness' to 'anal' I hope never to hear it again. It made me feel quite ill.


  • #226
    Jimmy444
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭Jimmy444


    odds_on wrote: »
    The same goes for euro: it cost 54 euro. I always thought the plural of euro was euros.

    I think the explanation given at the introduction of the euro was that not every European language uses an "s" to make a plural, so for consistency they tried to make euro the singular and plural in all languages.


    One misspelled word I see a lot is "phased" as in "He was not phased by the defeat". Watching too much Star Trek maybe.


  • #227
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    Oh My God


  • #228
    Grandad Himself
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Grandad Himself


    OMG


  • #229
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    "counting the 'sleeps' until Christmas / Birthday etc". Sheesh!


  • #230
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    For practically any talent competion.

    and the winner is ........................ This pause annoys me


  • #231
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Alice1


    syngindub wrote: »
    For practically any talent competion.

    and the winner is ........................ This pause annoys me
    Mmm, me too. I s'pose it's meant to build suspense, but it just irks me.


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  • #232
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    Alice1 wrote: »
    Mmm, me too. I s'pose it's meant to build suspense, but it just irks me.

    it's just so dam cliche at this stage


  • #233
    Ellsbells
    Closed Accounts Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Ellsbells


    The word irk irks me.


  • #234
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭Alice1


    Ellsbells wrote: »
    The word irk irks me.
    Ooops


  • #235
    googled eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,629 ✭✭✭googled eyes


    The word that is spelt phoenix but pronounced pheonix really annoys me


  • #236
    kabakuyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭kabakuyu


    Gutted, just can not stand the word as an expression of disappointment.


  • #237
    ootbitb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    what's happening


  • #238
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    What's the Story


  • #239
    ootbitb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    lmfao


  • #240
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Majorly - Major Tom yes, Marjorie yes, Majorly NO!


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  • #241
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    Loose instead of lose. How can someone loose a football game?


  • #242
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    Milk & Honey wrote: »
    Loose instead of lose. How can someone loose a football game?

    In a treatise I wrote on the Difficulty of learning English for non-native speakers, I had the following paragraph:

    "Native speaking children can also have a problem with certain fairly similar pairs of words. Two of these words, in particular, are “loose” and “lose”. Here, there are two different vocal sounds: “loose” is pronounced to rhyme with spruce. The word lose with one “o” rhymes with the word choose with a double “oo” which is spelt similar to “loose”. But loose and choose do not rhyme. Many native children confuse the spelling of these two words when writing them."


  • #243
    ootbitb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭ootbitb


    human been and generally been instead of being.


  • #244
    Ellsbells
    Closed Accounts Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Ellsbells


    thought instead of taught and there instead of their :mad:


  • #245
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    odds_on wrote: »
    In a treatise I wrote on the Difficulty of learning English for non-native speakers, I had the following paragraph:

    "Native speaking children can also have a problem with certain fairly similar pairs of words. Two of these words, in particular, are “loose” and “lose”. Here, there are two different vocal sounds: “loose” is pronounced to rhyme with spruce. The word lose with one “o” rhymes with the word choose with a double “oo” which is spelt similar to “loose”. But loose and choose do not rhyme. Many native children confuse the spelling of these two words when writing them."
    Maybe children, but individuals who purport to be educated adults and are native English speakers?


  • #246
    odds_on
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,869 ✭✭✭odds_on


    Milk & Honey wrote: »
    Maybe children, but individuals who purport to be educated adults and are native English speakers?
    I think that there are many adults who are not good at spelling. Especially, younger adults where spelling appears not to be a particular concern of many teachers or the modern educational system.


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  • #247
    franc 91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭franc 91


    I see quite a few of these kinds of mistakes in the comments pages of on-line newspapers such as the Irish Times srl. In France too you come up against it quite often in readers' comments on newspaper articles - and those who do make spelling and grammar mistakes get strongly criticised for it by other readers.


  • #248
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    odds_on wrote: »
    I think that there are many adults who are not good at spelling. Especially, younger adults where spelling appears not to be a particular concern of many teachers or the modern educational system.

    Adults are people who have finished school and if they don't know how to spell they should find out. People shouldn't go through their lives making excuses about their Senior Infants teacher.


  • #249
    namenotavailablE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,644 ✭✭✭✭namenotavailablE


    A somewhat understandable (yet completely ludicrous) spelling mistake:

    "The buildings were raised [instead of 'razed'] to the ground"...

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  • #250
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Milk & Honey wrote: »
    Adults are people who have finished school and if they don't know how to spell they should find out. People shouldn't go through their lives making excuses about their Senior Infants teacher.


    Ah but if they don't know how to spell, then they don't know they have spelled something wrong! :)


  • #251
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    I hate: (in no particular order)

    "Bugbear" (sounds stupid)

    "Playdate" (sounds stupid and pretentious)

    "Barista" (sounds stupid and pretentious)


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