To be genuinely/generally annoyed? (Light hearted... sort of!!)

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A person in my office keeps saying "generally" when what they mean in "genuinely" ... it drives me crazy every time!

I know, I know,I should pull them up on it but I don't want to make them feel daft , or come across as condescending, so I inwardly seethe instead!

AIBU for getting so annoyed?!

What drives you mad similar to this?

Used to work with someone who kept talking to customers about 'logging onto the customer porthole' rather then 'portal'. I couldn't work out how to subtly let him know...

Sazzle - brought/bought is my absolute pet peeve!!

E.g. I brought a new top today. Aggghhhhhhhhh

My DH is one of those that says Pacific instead of specific. Drives me nuts and no matter how often I try telling him it's specific he will continue to say Pacific because he knows it annoys me...

Where I used to live people say “he frit me” instead of “he frightened me”. Shudder.

Can you borrow me a tenner?

I won him at monopoly

He gived me it not for nothing

All from BIL3.

I quite like frit, although where I grew up it was used as an adjective eg "She was frit". I think of it more as local dialect.

It's the malapropisms, poor spelling and bad grammar that wind me up.

My DD always says "brought" when she means "bought". Me too. I know the difference. I TEACH the difference. I just can't consistently use the right one.

My dh adds "if you know what I mean?" On to the end of just about any information he imparts however obvious. Eg "I'll pop into Tesco on the way home from work if you know what I mean?"

I swear I am going to kill him one day.

I know a lot of people with twins. One intelligent mum is always referring to her boy's instead of boys.
Also defiantly, pacific, burgullry and cutullry

Amberlance, instead of Ambulance - that's another one I hate!!

As appose to.

Opposed! The word you want is opposed God Damn it!

Or sometimes they even write "A suppose to."

My DH says 'excape' instead of 'escape'.

I know.

How funny.

My DM's an English teacher and she used to go mad at me if I ever said 'I done' instead of 'I did'.

It annoys me now as an adult if I hear someone else say it

People saying "jags", presumably instead of jabs when referring to immunisations really irritates me

"Taking baby for jags today"
" is x reaction normal after jags?"

Worse still when people type it!

That is my biggest bugbear it gives me the rage! That and Pacific instead of specific

I'm a Pacific rather than specific sayer. I have tried so hard to train myself out of it but I can't - I hate it, I know it makes me sound like an idiot. I'm an academic and I remove the word specific from all my paper and lecture scripts so that I never have to say it publicly... So sorry to those who it drives mad, but I'm not doing it on purpose!

Amberlance, instead of Ambulance - that's another one I hate!!

I see your amberlance and raise you ambliance.

I think 'jags' may be more prevalent in Scotland?

Colleague who talked about a client being in a "sticky wicky". She couldn't understand why we found it so funny and repeated it to herself as if to convince herself it was correct, which didn't help 😂

Incorrect use of literally winds me up, and I now work in a neighbouring city where many colleagues use the word "like" far too frequently 😬

I hate it when people say 'off my own back' instead of 'off my own bat'.

Also, it's 'packed lunch,' not a bloody 'pack lunch.'

My best friend uses myself in ALL kinds of wrong sentences that make my skin itch. She’s otherwise a brilliant human being so I have never said anything but it gives me the rage.

“I look forward to meeting yourself tomorrow”

“Steve and myself went into town this morning”

“Laura isn’t coming so it’ll just be Betty and myself”

"take precedent" rather than "take precedence". Especially when it's all the way through a Staff Handbook that they've asked you to proof read, and they refuse to believe that "take precedence" is the correct form.

Learn and teach and all there tenses. Eg. "Miss learned us some spellings today." Gives me the rage. Honestly, if I ever swear at a pupil it will be because of that. It honestly doesn't make sense to me why I get so annoyed about it but I do.

Specific/Pacific - some family members do that, it bugs me too but not as much as the one above. I think I get more annoyed by the ones that mean similar things rather than those that sound the same. I can't complain, I was once trying to sound smart to a man (in my teens) and said orgasm instead of organism.

I can't stand 'I've done' rather than I've finished'...I constantly correct classes.

Also done/did and N 'Haitch' S which was on the Great British Menu earlier.

I once got very irritated in a staff meeting at a primary school when the staff were asked to agree to call words 'infinitive verbs'. ARGHHH!

The number of staff who can't use basic grammar is appalling.

My partner once said of a meal I'd cooked for him 'I fullery enjoyed that'. He struggled saying thoroughly, he can say it now but we mostly just stick with fullery lol. Defiantly/definitely really winds me up though.