Phrases/terms that elevate the temperature of your urine.

The hoi polloi
PIN number

Grrr.

Cockpit!!!
When did a push bike ever have a ******** cockpit!!!

“Push bike”.

I will now kill you.

Flaperon – I say “them” as in “look at them bananas”, it’s a northern thing, nowt to do with being thick!

I hate “slaw”. “Coleslaw” uses up too much ink? It doesn’t save any time, because of ****s like me who’ll ask the waiter “wtf is slaw?”

“Different tact” is the one I always post in these threads. It’s “different tack”, tact just makes no sense in this context. Ironically, most people who use it, don’t have any tact, let alone some other spare tact that would allow them to use different tact.

“Just saying like”

My dad, “I’m not being funny”. Yes, we know.

“Can I get a medium skinny extra-hot hazelnut latte?” (Just get a flippin’ coffee!!)
Pronouncing latte LAH-Te
Overuse of words like epic, epiphany, iconic, showcase
“Luxury apartment to rent” where luxury means one step up from hovel

Meeh?

“Luxury apartment to rent” where luxury means one step up from hovel

See also “Executive” – Used almost exclusively on mediocre coach companies for old biddy’s day trips and dry cleaners.

BAU, business as usual.

There’s some sensitive folks on here.

There are…

+1 for “Can i get”? Grow up.
“No problem”.

“Are you with me?”

Thankfully not you illiterate oik.

Thankfully not, you illiterate oik.

I took the liberty of adding the required comma, you illiterate oik.

😉

I loved it the two times I have seen twits from England ask for a Latte in Italy and get served warm milk.

It does not mean a milky coffee in the language which you borrow to sound sophisticated at a crap Starbucks you numpties…

But I think some of these, trail dog etc are reasonable. Action as a verb is useful, and “medal” saves time versus “finish on the podium”. I believe some grammar experts are now accepting less as well as fewer for countable nouns.

Meaningless interjections, like, you know, well, so I said to her, which add nothing but time, and I was, really, like really totes annoy me though… Oxygen thieves. Grrrrrrr…

Cheers Flashy 😳

My Mrs says imminent when she means eminent. I’m going to tell her one of these days, she’ll enjoy that.

“My bad”

I know how it’s used. I just don’t understand how them 😀 those two words put together make any sense.

Just lately I get irritated when someone agrees with something that someone on here has said by saying “xxxx has it.” As though that’s the end of the thread, no more discussion required.

My bad
Get in the sea
Netflix and chill
Bae

I loved it the two times I have seen twits from England ask for a Latte in Italy and get served warm milk.
It does not mean a milky coffee in the language which you borrow to sound sophisticated at a crap Starbucks you numpties…

Why would they get served warm milk when they just asked for milk. That is a strange mistake for a waiter to make in his own language.

If the writer wasn’t good enough at his job to get an order for milk right, I don’t think I would trust him to make a decent coffee anyway.

Sometimes when I catch myself asking ‘whats the narrative around this?’ at work I have to take myself in to a dark room and set about my head with a blunt object.

‘Inhale’ as in ‘He was so hungry he just inhaled a banana’

‘Banter’ as in ‘just having a wee bit of banter bruv’

‘Chapeau!’ – Eurggh. Ironic or not, makes me cringe every time.

quinoa
no matter how you want to pronounce it… don’t

NG. In both cases the barman asked if they were sure, and then asked if they wanted it warm, but the twits didn’t click.

So think you are blaming the wrong person here. I think it’s a stupid misappropriation of someone else’s language. Like cul de sac…

Bet you order lattes too… 😉

It’s been said before, but the use of language like this allows bad coffee to be served to idiots at premium prices.

At a bar with an espresso machine there should only be a choice of 1) espresso/cafe/cafe solo.
2) Machiato/cortado/noisette
3) Capuccino
4) cafe au lait/con leche
In the standard volumes and costing between 1-2€ … 😀

‘Banter’ as in ‘just having a wee bit of banter bruv’

+1, especially since recently it seems to get used where something like ‘trolling’ would be better.

Following on from the London Olympics everything now has ‘team’ before it. It grates.

bae

Oh yes, I see this on my offspring’s Facebook. I asked her why all her friends were obsessed with British Aerospace. She just doesn’t realise how hilarious I am.

ticks all the right boxes

The bastard love child of consumerist conformism meets stating the **** obvious.

“Craick” or “Crack”..as in “what’s the crack?” ….dunno, but i have the hookers if you have the…

I have several Cumbrian friends who say “Crack/Craick” lots… 😀

They also say “Bait” for lunch….
Nope, bait is what goes on the end of a fishing line.

Unchartered as in unchartered territory.

Is disappoint.

‘I was sat there’ rather than ‘I was sitting there’.

I am increasingly aggravated by people who repeatedly say “I am a reasonable person” in an high-pitched voice, while going scarlet in the face, 30 minutes into haranguing me about something no sane person would care about. But that’s quite situation-pacific.

I’m digging out for a new patio if it helps.

“Your call is important to us”

aracer, you might find this interesting:

http://blog.dictionary.com/inflammable/

Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.

The overuse of the word ‘narrative’ by anybody from southern England when interviewed on radio 4.

Overheard the other day,

“So he turned around and said… so I turned around and said… so then she turned around and said…” I had a mental image of a group of people having a conversation whilst spinning on the spot. Maybe they were all on those little exercise turntable things.

Bae

The only time I’ve ever heard this is on Facebook reposts where people are complaining about it. What is it? Is it some sort of non-word off something intellectually bankrupt like TOWIE or something?

Lush

**** word

The article on decimate seems a bit weak I have only read secondary sources for basic history but decimation being the word for the execution of 1/10 of a body of soldiers seems to have significant weight behind it and appears in primary sources such as Polybus . so the article suggesting that decimation has been retrospectively applied to the well attested Roman punishment seems wrong . To hold water surely the author would need to demonstrate the sources used a word other than decimato for the procedure.
I accept usage changes over time .