Myself sometimes

The fact that I cant decide if the Saab advert is wrong with its “less emissions” – should it be “fewer emissions” or is it right because there’s less emissions of the same number of things.

everything

You’re only 13, how can everything annoy you. I didn’t start getting ‘annoyed’ until I was in my 30’s.

People turning right at giveway lines but not positioning there car all the way over to the centre line. Therefore stopping anyone behind getting through to make a left turn. Makes my blood boil.

People walking/jogging two abreast down a just-wide-enough-for-two canal path who can’t work out what’s going to happen when I’m coming the other way (on one side) until we’re about 2 feet apart and everyone’s had to stop.

toothache, **** toothache!

The small ‘hairs’ you get on new tyres. Not sure why but they annoy me intensely. Are these the smallest annoying thing in this thread? Do I win a prize?

The fact that I cant decide if the Saab advert is wrong with its “less emissions” – should it be “fewer emissions” or is it right because there’s less emissions of the same number of things.

I think ‘less’ is OK for ’emissions’- if they were talking about CO2 particles (or whatever they are) then it would be fewer.

Anyway, back on topic…

The use of the following words:

– ‘chill’ in a non-refrigeration context
– ‘off’ (or, indeed, the heinous ‘off of’) instead of ‘from’
– ‘like’ instead of ‘said’
– ‘trail’ where any numner of other words will do – path, track, bridleway, bridlepath… A trail should be at least 500 miles long.

My neighbour’s little yappy that has the most irritating squeaky high pitched bark.

‘off’ (or, indeed, the heinous ‘of off’) instead of ‘from’

People who don’t know when to use ‘off’ and ‘of’ 😉 (you have them back to front in your example)

No I don’t.

I don’t think ‘of off’ makes any sense, and it’s quite hard to say. Not that the stupid ‘off of’ is any better. The **** on radio 1 is a key user of that phrase.

im no caliming to be a grammatical wonder boy, but it is just me that sees blatent, secondrary school level, errors on EVERY page of the BBC website?

It could be you, possibly. You may think things are incorrect when they’re not, ahem.