certain phrases which give me the irrational rage. Anyone else?

[NolansEpicDressSense]

'is your husband babysitting?' actually that's not an irrational one. It annoys the fuck out of me.

'I am eating my meal'. No you're not, you're eating your breakfast/dinner/tea/lunch/supper/whatever you want to call it, not your meal.

Yes - little man gets to me. I have never heard someone call their baby girl little woman.

"said friend" as in "said friend did XYZ". I've been seeing it more and more on MN and it really irritates me.

I also hate stabby.

At work, "reach out" and "ping a Note" annoy the crap out of me.

More Americanisms. 'I'm on it' (on what?) and 'I'm not comfortable with that' -- urgh.

I detest
Singing from the same hymn sheet
Pushing the envelope
Keep me in the loop
Get into bed with ... Meaning a business term for working together with.... Makes me want to scream ... Oh fuck offfffff
Yes to lil' man - so pathetic
Sentences ending in so .... So yeah ..
Over use of the word awesome
Lastly random strangers (usually shop assistants) who can tell my sight or sound what is wrong with child..... Ohhhhh someone is tired/hungry/doesn't like shopping!

"In the West, we....."
Followed by a facile, unquantifiable generalisation.
"I'm not rascist" always followed by "but..."

Over-use of 'random'

I'm not a (something) person.
Hear it all the time on Come Dine With Me: "I'm not a cinnamon person" "I'm not a chocolate person"!

"On-trend".

And text/texted as the past tense - to me, neither of them sound right.

I can't stand "I love her to bits/I love him to pieces" or "I love the bones of them". It sounds so bland but people use it to convey how they feel about kids etc.

I also have a friend who mis-pronounces things and I get (secretly) irrationally mad with it (things like "Dermatalogica" instead of "Dermalogica". It's spelt out, there on the bottle! Or she says things like 'illegible' instead of 'inelligible', Or 'Pin-interest' instead of 'Pinterest'.

But my biggest pet hate is people mis-pronouncing 'espresso' as 'expresso'. Even some celeb chefs do it, drives me potty every time.

Thought of another:

My mom refers to getting pregnant as 'caught'. So "when I caught for your brother".

Like it's contagious!

Many of you won't agree with this but "Nanny, Nana, Nan" for grandmother really grates.

And "kids" Such an ugly word.

You're making a rod for your own back makes me

i agree caitlin all of those put my teeth on edge, it sounds like a nanny goat.

When people say "we're going to take in a show"...arrrrghhh.

Also when they say "do you just have the one child" as opposed to just saying one child.

Also "I like to have a glass of wine of an evening"....of an evening? What? Why not just say "in the evening" or "some evenings".

Actually I have loads......!

'Touch base'
'Tommy K' for tomato ketchup
Yum/yummy/yummo/yummers
People talking about themselves in the third person
Pricey/dear
'A' coffee/'a' wine ('a' pint is fine though...)
Erotic
'Hard-working families...'

'Good times'
'Have a good one'

Oh.....people talking about themselves in the third person beats them all ephemeral!

Fashion articles, TV, shopping channel etc. articles of clothing seem to have become singular.

"A perfect winter trouser"
"This would be good with a black legging and red shoe"

Argh!

My DH also has the nasty habit of using "Can I get..." when speaking to waiting staff at restaraunts. It just seems rude to me!

I also agree with 'an invite'. It's an invitation!

'Cuppy' to describe a cup of tea. The most pretentious fucking word ever!!!

but it was always 'trouser' 'shoe' etc for the rag trade and market traders!

Has anyone mentioned this one:

"Happy mum - happy baby"

simplistic, self-serving nonsense.

"24/7" - just hate this.
"going for a bite to eat" - what, just the one bite? that's not much, is it?
"How are you spelling that?" re. one's surname - which admittedly is a PITA to spell but still - "How is that spelt", or "how do you spell that" please!

i am sure someone has already said this, but when people put state verbs into the continuous -
I am loving it! I am liking the trouser!

Haven't read whole thread so apologies if duplicating others...

I "aksed" her. WTF? asked is not a difficult word to pronounce .
It is what it is. Really? How profound.
I'm mad / bonkers / crazy me. Yes, you sound it talking like that.
"On" the weekend. Do you mean at the weekend / on Saturday?

actually Queenie 'aksed' is interesting as they used to say that in Shakespeare's day here in England, then it crossed to the Caribbean via the slave trade, and was re-imported back post - Windrush.
And in fact 'asked' is quite hard to say, it has a consonant cluster like 'crisps'