Cringe expressions

[Silverseas1]

I know this has been covered loads of times but here it is again. Feel free to ignore. Does anyone else positively cringe when reading or hearing people say 'would of' 'could of', 'should of' instead of have? It makes my toes curl 🤦‍♀️🤣

And prints are always ditsy and you never see a big black dress.

🤣 So true.

I'm adding 'a red lip" / 'a navy trouser'. When did it become acceptable to reduce a plural to a singular?

I also cannot abide 'I'm pissed that my friend did such and such'. It's pissed OFF- we are not living across the Atlantic (only my lovely work colleague from Maine is allowed this).

When people on forums tell an anecdote and write "reader". E.g. "I went to the shop and, reader, I realised I'd forgotten my bag for life!"

A tiny part of me wants them to fall off a cliff. Would be rather unfortunate for the attending voluntary & emergency services though.

I also hate "the Mrs" and "hubby". "The Mrs" makes my toes curl. "Sainsbos' sounds stupid and "if you know you know" is in the cliff camp.

"...,no?" At the end of a sentence (see upthread)
Reaching out
Little man
Invite instead of invitation

Also - did I actually see "chazza" for charity shop on the charity shop thread? AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH.

"Love you to the moon and back" - urgh!

"Making memories"

🤢

No need to pull faces at other people's accents, I'm sure I wouldn't be fond of yours either

But no, those examples are ones where I would pronounce the O sound clearly. But if I say, for example, "the first of January", the "of" sounds exactly like 've' 🤷‍♀️

@sammylady37 grammatically it's horrible, agreed, and personally I'd never say it.

However you said 'it makes no sense', but now you're saying you understand what it means...

Grammatically it makes no sense, given that (as I said already) ‘today years old’ isn’t a defined period of time, but it is possible to infer a meaning from the phrase nonetheless, similar to how I know what my friend means when she types the grammatical abomination “that must of being so hard”.

That's up there with "quality time". My hated one is "you do you hun".

“My other half” when referring to their partner or husband.

Use your words.

Aaaarghhh.

'First come first serve'

No one saying this is playing tennis. When did it become normalised? It's 'first come, first served' - suddenly its everywhere and I really hope language doesn't evolve to make it the standard version!

Or even worse , ‘click’ instead of clique.

”I brought it at the shops”

ITS BOUGHT YOU BELL END🤣

I also hate it when people say "decimated" to mean destroyed, wiped out etc. it means to reduce by 10% (the clue is in the name) but it's become normalised 😡

Little man is awful

“But hey”
Hey what? Do go on…

”Bless you”
patronise me some more

"find your happy"
shut up and go away immediately.

If it just says vegan burger, it implies it’s dull - which it probably is 😅

So at the beginning of a thread on MN / any SM story. Why not just begin the opening sentence as it is?

So, my DH went out early this morning.
So, MIL licked my toddler’s fingers.
So, DD used all of my posh face cream.

We're pregnant. This winds me up as only the woman with the baby in their womb is pregnant.
Going forwards. Well we can't go back in time.
Chill time.

Are you OK?

People saying gobsmacked
Also no shit Sherlock