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?

What irritating is people saying "plural of pound" when they mean fecking "pounds"!!!

Texted is just wrong

Someone at work says "last day" instead of yesterday. As in "I went to see that client the last day". It makes me want to scream.

None of you want to.live in Bolton then people here say I have got for go ter shop in stead of I have to go to the shop.very annoying ! Also.any drink such as cordial, fresh juice ,coke etc is pop in my world pop is fizzy pop!

Yabu.

Me and almost everyone I know says 2 pound etc

It is colloquial here in the North East to use "month" for plural months; I have a friend who posts a monthly photo of her DS on Facebook captioned "Four month old today!", "Can't believe X is five month already!" etc

Quids as in "I'm quids in" What's that all about, then?

Some people on The Jeremy Kyle Show say "tex-is". (For plural of text)

Yeah, euro is the plural. It was decided to use that because not all European languages pluralise in the same way, so it's euro/euro across all of Europe.

I couldn't agree more Op. I heard an ad on the radio last week, it was something about saving money and the whole way through the lady kept saying 'save five pound, ten pound, fifty pound, one hundred pound'.
I had to turn it off.
It's minor but soooooo annoying

That fb thing of dropping the 's drives me insane. Absolutely insane.

And I say 'pound' or more often 'quid', five pounds just sounds all wrong in my Welsh accent.

Yes 'euro' is also plural, hate when people say '10 euros'.

Also hate when Americans refer to 'legos'.

Yes I say "pound" as well, I don't think I have heard anyone local saying "pounds" it just sounds wrong.

Also guilty of pack lunch on occasion but more likely to say pack up or just use the word lunch. ie "What do you want in your lunch?"
both of which are commonly used here.

Packed lunch is a bit of a mouthful especially when you're just out of bed!!!

North Americans say, "that's a savings of 50%".

I'm trying to see the problem with this, but I am Canadian so maybe the wrong person to judge... It just means that you've paid half of what it was originally priced at. Care to enlighten me?

I will say though that I'd never, ever use Legos!

Yes, it's about time the working classes were exterminated so we don't have to listen to them.

Ill-educated forriners sound so much more lyrical and vibrant don't they?

I gotta tell you, squoosh, American's don't give a fuck what you think.

Ha, are you sure about that? You certainly sound most put out.

FlipFlop this will explain your grievous errors to you. Your savings are in the bank. It is saving in the case of money off. SAVING.

You don't say irregardless, do you like my Canadian DH used to?

That'll teach me to RTFT.

More cross atlantic diplomacy tonight?

'A savings' sounds wrong to my UK ears flip but I wouldn't cross the road to correct the sign

Plural of panini = panini
Singular = panino

Ie "Can I have 1 panino / 2 panini please"

It sort of sounds like an interesting fact to point that out but I sound like a right wanker if I do that in rl

I really don't care, Flamingo. I'd guess it to be a regional thing.

Queen I regularly have this conversation,

"can I have a ham and cheese panino, please"
"panini"
"panino"
"panini"
"whatever"

Along with espresso not eXpresso and biscotti when there's one. My excuse is that I did live in Italy so it sounds really off to me.

My DH says pound - it irritates me endlessly. I managed to stop him from saying trainees for trainers after a gradual war of attrition when we were first married - this is my next target / bugbear! YANBU!

I never say 'pound' for 'pounds' but it doesn't bother me to hear it. Same goes for mile instead of miles. It's very common in Ireland, so much so that I feel like a right pedant when I notice it. I really hate 'two Euro' though. Deep down I feel it should be 'Euros'. I can't bring myself to say 'I text' either, when I want to use the past tense. For me it's 'texted'.

'Legos' makes my teeth itch.

Here in Liverpool I hear a lot of people say" I'm going to THE ASDA" never the Tesco or the Sainsburys. I don't get it:)