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AIBU by being really irritated by people saying "likkle" instead of "little" and...

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Bogeyface · 25/01/2013 14:41

....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 :o But on the phone she says this and REALLY annoys me!

I am probably BU but it really winds me up!

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Crawling · 25/01/2013 14:42

No I agree YANBU IMO

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PickledInAPearTree · 25/01/2013 14:44

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

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FeckOffCup · 25/01/2013 14:44

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

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BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 25/01/2013 14:44

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 :)

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TheRobberBride · 25/01/2013 14:45

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

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Samnella · 25/01/2013 14:46

YANBU.

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

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Bogeyface · 25/01/2013 14:46

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!

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Bogeyface · 25/01/2013 14:46

This is the "U bit not I bit!

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Theladyinpurple · 25/01/2013 14:47

YADNBU. Hate it

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JoinTheDots · 25/01/2013 14:47

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

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WorraLiberty · 25/01/2013 14:50

'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 Angry

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wineandroses · 25/01/2013 14:50

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'.

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wineandroses · 25/01/2013 14:51

Oh cross-post with Worra.

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Charlie01234 · 25/01/2013 14:59

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

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BridgetBidet · 25/01/2013 15:08

You live in Yorkshire don't you. Grin. 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.

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Charlie01234 · 25/01/2013 15:13

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.

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spatchcock · 25/01/2013 15:17

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

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manicbmc · 25/01/2013 15:21

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. Hmm

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PessaryPam · 25/01/2013 15:33

Arks is the Jamaican way of saying ask.

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suburbophobe · 25/01/2013 15:39

And likkle is Jamaican patois for little.

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

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WorraLiberty · 25/01/2013 16:18

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.

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thebody · 25/01/2013 16:23

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.

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Bogeyface · 25/01/2013 18:34

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!

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Bella88 · 25/01/2013 18:50

Skellington and chimley are equally as nauseating.

Thick cunts! Angry

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