To find it really irritating when people say 'pound' when they mean plural of pound?

[Alsoflamingo]

Realise it's nothing new, but really….. why? I mean, no one says 'one car, two car', do they? So why on earth not knock yourself out and shove the 's' onto pound like a normal person?

[wowfudge]

Yep - it's irritating. So is 'one pence' - it's a penny, perfectly good word for the singular.

[redexpat]

Annoys me too.

[Binkybix]

Yes a million times over. A real pet peeve of mine!

[pippop1]

Oooh, and me about the pound thing. Very annoying.

[HappyAgainOneDay]

One of my peeves is that the singular and the plural of 'lb' is 'lb' not 'lbs'.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

I'm hearing this in a South London accent. "that'll be 50 paaaaand, innit". I miss home. YAthereforeBU.

[Iveabsolutelynofekkingideadoi]

YNBU!

[FelixFelix]

I do this, sorry. It's just how I was brought up to talk.

Worst one is the plural of vinyl. It's not vinyls

[flightywoman]

Irritates me too! But I have a lot of things like that that which wind me up!

My current bugbears are mainly food-related, I can't bear the way people talk about "tucking in"!

[OmnipotentQueenOfTheUniverse]

It's a regional thing surely? Lots of people round here say pound (or Pahnd). Or quid even.

[OmnipotentQueenOfTheUniverse]

Oh so YABU as this is an accent/dialect thing and totally normal in some places so ner really.

[Iveabsolutelynofekkingideadoi]

Flightywoman

A cheeky anything kills me on so many levels!

[MrsTerryPratchett]

North Americans say, "that's a savings of 50%". My teeth are just nubs

[WhenMarnieWasThere]

Ooo..... 'free pound' for £3. Urgh.

MIL says 'a two week' instead of fortnight.

[OmnipotentQueenOfTheUniverse]

Don't come to London then.



This feels a bit snotty to be TBH.

[PesoPenguin]

It is annoying but what's more annoying is the current fb trend of not bothering to put 's to denote something belonging to someone eg, 'It's Ben birthday tomorrow', 'Love Poppy new outfit' ( this last one was written by a teacher fgs).

[Iveabsolutelynofekkingideadoi]

I don't mind Londoners shouting it however, weird that.

[yumyumpoppycat]

actually I think it is hard to say pack ed lunch! Not sure how I say it now .. like when you over think breathing.

[WitchWay]

Tesco's and Sainsbury AARGH no it's Tesco and Sainsbury's (DH I mean you)

[TooManyMochas]

I do it. I'm Irish and lots of Irish people do it. And I'm not backing down so tough