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Sangwich really annoys me. As does Skellington. DH says it and it gives me the rage.

Oh and ice- ring.

It's ice RINK!!!!!!

Oh god yes ice-ring. And med-sin (there is an i! It's med-i-cine!). And lil instead of little - one of my facebook friends has taken to this one. In fact, last week she was twittering on about building 'sum draws for her lil one'. Rage, rage, rage.

Sammidge - just wrong.

What on earth does skellington mean? Skeleton? And chimley?

I hate biccy for biscuit and for some totally unknown and unreasonable reason, I also hate poorly. Think it's just me on that one!

Also hate tummy in anyone over the edge of 6!

My bugbear is x-er-ray, no - it's a frigging x-ray!!

Heard a lot of ath-er-lete during the Olympics. Kept turning to my husband/cat/other fellow living room occupier and saying 'it IS still just ath-lete, right? Did I miss something?'

Also hate lickle. Never heard it til I moved to Manchester. When someone used it I laughed, then realised they were entirely serious. Cripes.

Kind of off topic but "chillaxing" has to be the most irritating non word ever.

Mini I hate poorly too! Yay it's not just me

I think I could forgive ickle if the person said it to a baby, but otherwise not.

Hate likkle, bokkle, hospikal. Argh!

My DH told me last week he had a sore tummy. The withering look I gave him. Jesus. What are you, 5?

Abliance for Ambulance I loathe too.

Hate lickle, bockle, chimley etc. I used to have a colleague who said hospickle. She was a health care assistant in a busy surgical unit. Made her sound utterly ridiculous.

Recently noticed my boss says struddle instead of struggle. Now I've noticed it he says it all the fucking time and it makes me (inwardly) furious!

Baf instead of bath. Horrid.

Nope poorly is awful. All wet and drippy.

Pacific instead of specific.
Haitch instead of Aitch

Lully instead of lovely. Urgh! Makes my blood boil.

irregardless is another one.

I have heard it used by otherwise intelligent people but who cannot seem to differentiate between regardless or irrespective!

Prolly for probably [stab stab stab]

Chimbley for chimney. Why why why.

Pacifically for specifically. Not often a word you actually have to use very often. To be pacific.

That pronunciation of words ending in -er or -or as "aaaah", the worst example being the X Fact AAAR.

Holibobs<loads gun>

My dad used to take it a step further. He didn't like likkle - fair enough - but also used to complain if we placed too much emphasis on the 't' sound. "It's not littul, it's little". He also used to get wound up about incorrect use of 'hopefully' . He's a lot more relaxed about it all now.

Anyway, yanbu. Likkle is stupid.

YANBU, I also have a total hatred of the word 'mither' bleugh!

My personal one is tenderhooks rather than tenderhooks. People say it all the time.

My Mil also says 'prostrate' when she means prostate. Not that we discuss this often!