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....to be even more irritated by the fact that the person who was just saying it was my Health Visitor?!

I have never met her, managed to dodge that bullet for 2 years But on the phone she says this and REALLY annoys me!

I am probably BU but it really winds me up!

No I agree YANBU IMO

My midwife said to open my iccle legs when I was in labour. She was lucky to survive tbh.

YANBU. My bugbear is "gawjus" it makes me want to slap the user of it very hard.

Ikkle is just the absolute pits. I have one particular friend who aways refers to her kids as ikkles.....I pull her up on it every time

No YANBU. ''Ikkle' sets my teeth on edge. In much the same way as referring to children as 'smalls' does.

YANBU.

It is up there with hun as far as I am concerned.

I think the fact that she is a HV annoys me more because, and this IS the I bit, it makes me question her professional abilities if she can't even pronounce little properly!

I think that MW would have been kicked in the face if that had been me Pickled!

This is the "U bit not I bit!

YADNBU. Hate it

YANBU my FIL says it about DD, makes me grind my teeth every time

'Arks' instead of 'ask' winds me the fuck up...it really does.

When my DS2 was in reception, he kept saying it because his TA did

My particular dislike is people who say 'Arksed' instead of 'Asked'. I hear it more and more often; most annoying.

Also, someone I used to work with would say 'Mort-gauge' instead of 'Mortgage'.

Oh cross-post with Worra.

And Hospickle instead of Hospital. Drives me crazy ...... SPEAK PROPERLY!!!!

You live in Yorkshire don't you. . I do too. It makes me want to kill people.

As does bokkle, hospickal, kekkle and whater. Oh and you put oil in your car, it's not something you dig.

I am in Yorkshire but I think this is something more likely to be heard in Manchester/Oldham?? Always think of Ashley from Coronation Street! My husband thinks I am being very unreasonable but it is something I would put firmly in my room 101.

YADNBU. And at the midwife who used this word in a labour situation!

Hospickle, Likkle, Lellow - hate it, hate it so much. Almost forgiveable if you are 7 or younger.

I know a few kids who have had endless speech therapy, when it came to light that they say these words as they do because their mother is a dimwit who talks in baby-speak to them.

Arks is the Jamaican way of saying ask.

And likkle is Jamaican patois for little.

So maybe your HV is from there? (You say you've never met her).

What makes me laugh about most of the people I know who say 'arks' is that they've never been outside of England...so it's not as though it's a phrase they were used to saying all their lives.

Agree 'arks' very annoying.

Ickle is vile but a mom at our school calls her dds bubbas.. They are a well grown 7 and 9. Want to spit at her.

I do say 'binockears' for binoculars though. Not sure why.

My husband is Jamaican and it winds him up too. She wasnt using any other patois, so I doubt she is Jamaican but will let you know if she does indeed turn out to be!

Skellington and chimley are equally as nauseating.

Thick cunts!