Anyone want to add to my ever increasing list of words/terms that are just really bloody annoying?

[TitaniasAss]

There are many but this year I've been able to add even more:

Weaponise
Twixmas
You do you

Feel free to add yours!

@RicherThanYews , it’s not a question of omitting vowels, it’s a q. of short or long vowels and stress on which syllable.

Research was traditionally pronounced reSEARCH, short initial e and stress on 2nd syllable. To many of us, REsearch sounds profoundly and irritatingly wrong.

A pp mentioned words that are now mangled - e.g. DISpute - which should be disPUTE, etc.

I once knew of someone who pronounced delay as DEElay, but thank goodness that was long ago and I’ve never heard anyone else do it.

'Give your head a wobble'

'Paps'

It's only recently I've discovered it isn't some version of food from McDonald's.

I lead a sheltered life

The one I hate the most is 'for sure' or 'seemingly' or 'awesome' or if I am watching a U.S. show and they say 'do the math' as we say maths. Another one some people use and say it completely wrong that annoys me is 'I could care less' as it is 'I couldn't care less'.....great thread.

Another one that really makes my blood boil is when our government here have fecked up yet again with another big scandal and not one of the td's are fired when they say 'lessons will be learned' yes at the normal person's expense and not at their expense.

I absolutely hate the phrase 'curl up' as in 'curl up on the sofa with a book'. Something about it just makes me feel sick.

It makes me think of some dried up crispy person sat there like a quaver.

I hate ‘baby steps’. So twee and cutesy-little-girly. (To me, anyway, but then I’m a GOB (grumpy old bag).

British English also used "math" until fairly recently, linguistically speaking. Then, for some unknown reason, the S was added while in America, the original form was maintained.

For free. 😡 No. It's for nothing, or free. You can't get anything for free.

Not to mention lately ‘coronated’ instead of ‘crowned’. And before anyone says it, yes, I know it is a word, but it refers to e.g. a lizard with some vaguely crown shaped growth on its head - not to the act of putting crown jewels on royal heads.

Maybe David Icke’s on to something with his theory that we’re being ruled by lizards. 😂

I like the DH/DW/DS/DD thing because in my mind it reads as anything other than Dear/Darling. Usually something like Dickhead/Dumbfuck/Deadbeat Husband, Deranged/Debauched/Depraved Wife, Degenerate Son, Demented Daughter......

When people use the word 'training' when they just mean excercise.

Any expression with the word back in

He has got my back, I have got their back, he should have your back

Anything like this

Make or making noise. It's making a noise, FFS.

@PAFMO, how recently?

I’m old enough to remember usage at school in the early 60s, and it was invariably ‘maths’.

"I resonate with it" instead of "it resonates with me". Seems to be everywhere at the moment

Linguistically recently, so some centuries ago. I can't remember exactly. I'll try and find the article about it. It just tickles me when US English is derided when, in almost all cases, it has kept the "original" whereas it's British English which has seen the biggest changes. Understandably, of course, as English used in America is, (again linguistically) new, so hasn't yet made the changes.

I thought that ‘maths’ was a contraction of mathematics. We don’t say ‘mathematic’, or at least, I haven’t encountered that.

Math first appeared in print as an abbreviation in 1847 and maths in 1911. Believed to be, in the case of the latter British usage, due to a misconception that the etymology and spelling of mathematics indicates a plural.
Here's an article with other details, but tbh, the last part is the salient bit. People in different countries use perfectly correct variations.
www.irregardlessmagazine.com/articles/etymology-of-math-and-maths/

It is, and so is math.
The point is, the S in mathematics doesn't indicate a plural, so there was no logical reason for the abbreviation to put it. That British English did, and US English didn't, ultimately doesn't matter. It's just an interesting quirk.

I'm no going to debate you.

Instead of: "Have a debate with you" / "Debate this with you."

I still go to the pictures.

In the Chalet School books they refer to Maths, and it's plural (1930s to 50s)

By the time I went to school in the 80s it was Maths, but singular.

I wonder when it changed.

Fayre for something like a summer or Christmas Fair. It's only possibly appropriate if you're going for a medieval theme, and even then it's still dodgy.