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  • Words which grate against the very fabric of your soul
  • CaptainFlashheart
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    In opposition to the "Words you like the sound of", what about the vilest of the vile. The words which stir the stomach to shout soup;

    For me, it has to be the use of "innit". In fact, any laziness in language. Use the words properly!

    neilsonwheels
    Free Member

    Use the words properly!

    may I be the first to say…

    innit… 😀

    DaveVanderspek
    Free Member

    Celebrity.

    CHB
    Full Member

    dis fred am well wkd.

    iDave
    Free Member

    social media

    accountant

    49er_Jerry
    Free Member

    Wha'ever

    Loath it.

    neilsonwheels
    Free Member

    Put out.

    Onzadog
    Free Member

    real-time.

    Just watching season 8 of 24 and they want everything real time. What other sort of time would in anyway be relevant? What would someone give you by mistake if they didn't realise you specifically needed real time information?

    loddrik
    Free Member

    Alex curran! Eurgh..

    Sandwich
    Full Member

    For sure, it's certain you eejits

    aleigh
    Free Member

    'kinda like' – so annoying

    bravohotel9er
    Free Member

    'Ourselves', 'yourselves' and 'myself'….

    Utterly neutral on their own, but when left in the hands of some of my plantlife colleagues you end up receiving emails/telephone calls along the lines of:

    'Ourselves have contacted yourselves about this matter on previous occasions. If yourselves could reply to myself, then ourselves will be in a position to pursue it further'

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    Synergy.

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    'Innit' gets on my nerves as well.
    'Frank' & 'Skinner' are another two.
    'Football'
    'Management' (not linked to the previous bit)
    'Medication'
    'Methodone'

    rexated
    Free Member

    Isn't 'celebs' even more irksome?

    'Butt' and 'ass' and other such Americanisms are really unhelpful to my mental well-being.

    clunker
    Full Member

    24/7

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Real time has a specific meaning. In TV it means that one minute of screen time equals one minute of plot time. In computing it means that calculations or functions are performed on a continuous basis all the time.

    Not a silly word at all.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    'Ourselves have contacted yourselves about this matter on previous occasions. If yourselves could reply to myself, then ourselves will be in a position to pursue it further'

    AAAAAAAAAARGH!

    brakes
    Free Member

    period

    Paulio
    Free Member

    Guesstimate.

    john_drummer
    Free Member

    "Manchester United"

    😉

    MOT

    49er_Jerry
    Free Member

    Verbation of the noun 'Medal'.

    piedidiformaggio
    Free Member

    Empowering
    Facilitating

    joolsburger
    Free Member

    Know what I mean

    Reality when applied to any TV shows

    plop_pants
    Free Member

    'celebrity' chef.

    grumm
    Free Member

    actioned

    YoungDaveriley
    Free Member

    Your instead of you're.
    Yeah yeah yeah,instead of just one yeah.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    "most unique" or any variation thereof.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    What's wrong with celebrity? What adjective should we use?

    What annoys me is words being used as verbs when they are derived from verbs in the first place.

    Such as leverage. The verb is to lever.

    Bunnyhop
    Full Member

    Any word that should have 'ing' on the end – Please pronounce the 'G', it does my head in. As does missing the 'H' off the beginning of words, except maybe 'otel' which is posh.

    Hate Basically….. arggghhh.

    catnash
    Free Member

    I say could have

    they say 'could of'

    MrSmith
    Free Member

    is not
    does not in any way
    wuzzent
    dijical

    all pre-pubescent affectations of a vertically challenged forum member who is now banned.

    'an' when preceding mountainbike or hotel

    Surf-Mat
    Free Member

    Strategic
    Premier
    Springboard
    Demystify

    And many many other business BS words.

    jahwomble
    Free Member

    LOL, ROFL, LMAO, ROFLMAO,!!!! etc.

    Pedant(ic/ism /ary) consistently being used improperly, and being considered a virtue as opposed to a flaw.

    JulianA
    Free Member

    'I'm sorry, it's passed closing time',
    'I', when the speaker means 'me',
    'Disinterested', when the speaker means 'uninterested',
    'Myself' when 'me' is correct,
    'Decimated', when speaking of a situation where less or more than 10% of the subjects of the sentence are dead,
    'Enormity', when speaking of the large size of something
    'And now we leave the live action for another episode of the Good Life / Dad's Army [delete as applicable]'

    molgrips
    Free Member

    And what's wrong with abbeviations?

    Christ, your worlds must be dull as ditchwater if you can't cope with humorous linguistic creativity.

    Reluctant
    Free Member

    TORY.

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    "my bad"

    retro83
    Free Member

    Proactive.

    molgrips – Member
    In computing it means that calculations or functions are performed on a continuous basis all the time.

    Afraid not, it means they have a constrained response time. Nothing to do with operating continuously.

    sockpuppet
    Full Member

    "winningest"

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