Words and phrases that piss you off for no good reason

[ChicJoker]

I’ll start.

“fair do’s”
”cool beans”
”loaded up on”
”bliss”

there’s so many more. I’ve no reason they annoy me so much but hearing these words evokes violent thoughts 😂

Ah, never thought of it like that. I like it.

"You know what I mean"... after every sentence
"I'm not gonna lie"

People shortening things that really don't need to be. I've only heard these on Instagram but they made me cringe 😬
Antibiotics - anti b's
Mental breakdown - menty b

Oh & "date nice" & "my happy place" make me shudder.

I blame Frank Bruno for that.

I am NT, and can’t stand it. it’s likely the English language is being butchered irreparably, and it is suffering a death by a thousand cuts.

The word brigade irritates me. I never hear anyone say it in real life, but on MN there is often used to reference things like the ‘woke brigade’ or ‘anti private school brigade’ (or substitute anything they don’t agree with). It always feels so unnecessary sneery. Often coupled with accusations of ‘jealousy’ when someone, say thinks wealthy people should be taxed more or believes in distribution of wealth etc

Ritual. As in "your skincare ritual".

I'm washing my face, not filming a remake of The Devil Rides Out. 😡

Elevate - seems to be the word of the year. Before that it was ‘curated’ and before that, ‘bang on trend’)
Baby daddy
Date night
Play date
Another vote against ‘gifted’.
ALOT. Has to be written in capitals and for added impact, BOLD.
Loose instead of lose.
Also mispronunciation of ‘sixth’ (sicth) and mischievous (mischievious).
Don’t get me started about ‘ashume’ and ‘Aushtrailia’.
I tried to like, watch a programme about the like, daughter of two ‘celebrities’, but had to like, stop because she like, managed to use the word ‘like’ like, five times in like, one reasonably short sentence. I didn’t like it.

Don't know why fish supper and outwith would annoy someone- they're just Scottish words.

Wholesome - every bloody thing is wholesome these days

"I'll just jump on" - someone going on to Instagram to impart some nonsense. You're not jumping on to your phone.

Gifting, carolling and antiquing. Eugh ... Twee Martha Stewart world.

Jacky spuds? Please no 😱

‘Neurospicy’ needs a good punch up the bracket.

Haven't heard that for years! My nan used to threaten to 'punch you up the bracket' when we were misbehaving as kids!

'gave 110%' - that's impossible 🙄

Definitely Grab. Also Bung (bung in oven) Chuck ( chuck in some ingredients). Wow - look how busy and careless we all are!

I love it. Makes me think of Tony Hancock.

‘How do you feel about….’ Asked by every reporter/ interviewer in the media. It has replaced ‘what do you think?’

Called out.
Virtue signalling.
This one.
A cheeky anything.
Reach out/touch base.
If you insist (in response to an offer).
Get. There’s almost always a better alternative.
Triggered, mainly as it’s so overused these days.
Neurospicy (smacks of desperation to be different).
Unctuous when used as praise. It’s really not.
Fulsome when used as a good thing, it isn’t.
Blip.
Glee.

That said, I love words and language, and how things evolve.

A pop of colour 😩

Pudding - yes.
Pud - NO!

Keep calm and carry on - do nothing and keep doing nothing….

And the word tweak

@GinToBegin I also love language and how things evolve. We are resistant to change so I understand why my hackles rise when everybody starts saying 'wait on' instead of 'wait for', or pronouncing 'schedule' as 'skedule', or spelling (TV) 'programme' as 'program'. But I remember an English teacher who banned the word 'get' in our writing. Yes, there's always an alternative but sometimes 'get' is fine and fishing round for an alternative isn't necessary. I suppose the teacher was just trying to make us more adventurous in our word choices. Having said that, I will NEVER ask if I can 'get' a coffee!

Holibobs

@PeachPumpkin I work in music and totally refuse to use that stupid phrase - being old school I just use’released’

Get go (start)
passed (died)
there are others but can’t think of them