Words that annoy you…

I’m not keen on “actually”.

Or adverbs, generally.

Ah. Now. “Haitch” is annoying. And, since a word annoys me, I must therefore now shoot myself.

“Cool” when used by anyone presenting Top Gear.

I have a few:
Showcase
Skillset
Iconic
Epic
As someone mentioned earlier: Ourselves instead of “us”,
Myself instead of “me”, Yourselves instead of “you”.

Any word that loses its ‘g’ ending to be replaced with a k.

Somethink
Anythink
Nothink

How we feel about going to Tescos?

How we feel about going to Tescos?

To buy strawberry’s?

I DO like “skelington” though!

‘Sessioning’. It’s a word that people who need to practice a lot use instead of ‘practice’.
That’s not what it says in the Urban Dictionary though.

I like cottaging and dogging.

I DO like “skelington” though!

and chimbley,

but obligate and concur ?
No!

Genuinely. ( in that Simon Cowell way )
Synergy
Rad
awesome

“uber” – oh, do **** off

I’ve always liked scaredypants – he’s an über-cool kinda guy.

“Pack is an action not an object.”

Pack of cards? Backpack? Woolpack? Pack of dogs? Six-pack? Battery pack? Ratpack? Jet pack?

Its a deck of cards, a rucksack, and theres no need for ‘pack’ after battery (say batteries instead).

I see ‘pack of dogs’ a bit like ‘gaggle of geese’, as a collective term for more than one of the same animal.

‘Ratpack’- wasnt that invented for a bunch of crooners in a film? Can’t think of an alternative to ‘jet pack’ however….

Really no need to describe a tube, packet or parcel as a ‘pack’ though, is there?

I here ‘swap out’ from customers every single day and have to bite my tongue far too much!

“You have a right to your opinion” as said by obnoxious highways bloke at planning meeting this evening.

theres no need for ‘pack’ after battery (say batteries instead).

Except that batteries would imply more than one battery pack. So I’ll add “battery” when used to refer to a cell.

Can I “get” a cappuccino? When you mean Can I “have” a cappuccino!

This.

Whatever.

+1

Outwith

Why has this word been invented?

That hurts, Darcy 😥 – credit for the umlaut though

Steed, It annoys me a lot.

Except that batteries would imply more than one battery pack. So I’ll add “battery” when used to refer to a cell.

You’re quite right, i stand corrected 🙂

Outwith
Why has this word been invented?

It hasn’t. It is a pre-existing Scottish word that is slowly creeping into general usage outwith Scotland.

It’s in the OED and everythink:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/outwith

Jonny5 – Member
Steed, It annoys me a lot

do you quiver with rage ?
‘sled me to the point of despair too; maybe we could rig the forum to switch it to another word – say, “ride” ?

In kiting circles a collection of kites is referred to as a quiver. It vexes me greatly.

‘vexes’ is a great word!

“Really no need to describe a tube, packet or parcel as a ‘pack’ though, is there?“

Arguably not, but then by the same argument there’s no need for any synonyms at all, in which case we’re all the poorer to the tune of hundreds of thousands of words and a panoply of wonderful nuances.

It’s one of my favourites. I also like the phrase ‘incur my displeasure’. I use it with my 3yr old son quite a lot. He has started using it himself now.

An.
when put in front of MTB, Hotel, Historic etc.
I don’t care if its right, to me it’s wrong.

Gravitas —a few years back, here in the US, a couple of TV news people started using it regarding politicians, i.e. so-and-so speaks with gravitas and for a few months it was “the” descriptive of choice. It kind of went away, but just today heard it twice on radio news reports—still makes me cringe.

Guy I work with is always telling people he has a “property” adjoining the wilderness area–I tell him he had a f’ng house next to the forest.

Addicting.

Words (literally) fail me.

Most of the above. Although the majority would be absolutely fine if they weren’t overused. Variety is good but when a word is repeated too often it seems to lose both its meaning and its impact.

Except bagodrome, obviously!

Simples

Me likes

plush – when has riding over rock and roots felt like a velvet sofa from DFS, or a roll of andrex bog paper.

iconic paradigm shifts among networked diasopora

there I put my pet hates in a sentence – wanders off to see if actually remembered it from this weeks Economist

‘Incentivise’ and ‘Excellence’. WTF does ‘excellence’ mean anyway?

Excellence? As in ‘a fine example of excellence’, something that is the best of its kind, never to be surpassed, created by genius par example. What, pray tell, is wrong with that one?

There be some right grumbly monkeys around these parts.

I like panoply. A veritable gem.

Incidentally, contractions, i.e. chillax, that be a proper word not – whilst I laud the concept of attempting to advance the language, we should exclude America from this process, as they just don’t get it right very much.