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?

I hate adverts which say 'all this for just one nine five'. No - it's one hundred and ninety five pounds, not just a random collection of numbers!
I probably would be annoyed by pound vs pounds, but growing up in Sarf Landan has inured me to it somewhat!

My Mum does it with miles too - "it's about 12 mile away" .... argh!

YANBU. I hate "bag of crisp"

I get just as irritated when people refer to "euros" as the plural of euro. The plural of euro is euro. Like sheep, if that helps. Not hard.

But I really can't understand why people say that something is "really cliche" rather than cliched.

YABU to find it really irritating, you would not BU to find it mildly irritating.

My mom does this with 'trouser' and 'trousers'

As in 'I'm going away for a few nights so I'll take two pair of trouser.' Pair / pairs is annoying too.

I hate it when people say 'pounds', despite it being the proper way

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YANBU - DH does this sometimes and it makes me

Pact and packed aren't the same to me.

When I say packed my tongue touches the roof of my mouth. Pact not. Weird.

My ex mil when talking about my children's weights when babies would say "she go 8 pound now".
Made my teeth itch.

Is it really correct to say 'two euro' rather than 'two euros'? I had no idea and it's my local currency!

I just find it really unattractive when a person writes '50 pound' or '50 pounds', rather than '£50'. Strange.

Even though I am not fussed about the pound/pounds spoken error, I don't think YABU, because I get really irritated about many things that wouldn't bother others.

Pound for pounds is very annoying.

"He lent me five pounds" not pound.

But

Don't we say

"He lent me five quid"?

No one would say quids.

EatShitDerek
Perhaps I should have specified that I meant in sale ad context etc. On here, with the discussion of words, writing 'pound' is perfectly acceptable.

Just looked it up and the Collins dictionary says the plural is -os and then gives a load of examples where it uses euro for the plural

How do you cope with 'Five pound note'?

Maybe the person meant 'He lent me a five pound note' is that worse because it has 2 grammatical errors/ omissions?

I can't get to excited about it. I'm trying to fight off my DDs picking up a regional accent that would have them saying 'He lent me fooooiiiiive pounds'. Grammatically correct but raises my hackles.

It's the same with height

People say I'm five foot two not I'm five feet two

I say quid for everything after one pound ninetynine

Two quid. For the straight amounts.

Then three fifty Two forty nine etc.;

Fiver

Tenner

etc.;

thass five pahnd dahling