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

[bluemoonchances]

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?

Someone I know posted about how they were fed up with 'been made a escape goat' - I had to bite my tongue pretty hard at that!

This was one of a number that Dave Gorman mentioned on an episode of Modern Life Is Goodish. Escape goat, doggy-dog world, from the gecko, bowl in a china shop etc. He got the audience to guess them from short animations in an 'original' gameshow that he introduced called Catphrase, starring a little yellow character called Mr Roast Potatoes! Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it (it'll be along on Dave again before long).

I hate it when anyone says "of" instead of "have"...."I should OF stayed in" instead of "should HAVE"

"I text her yesterday to see if she was coming."

HOW?!?! HOW could you possibly HAVE text (present tense) somebody yesterday (which is in the past)?! Maybe I'm the one BU and it's now passed (yes, 'passed' - NOT 'past'!) into everyday usage, but who made the unilateral decision for the English-speaking world that it should have an irregular past participle and not simply be 'texted' as common sense clearly dictates?

Also, people referring to A panini. The exact same people who would doubtless look at you as if you'd gone mad if you asked for 'a sandwiches'.

"I could of done it" and "This is are house" also give me the rage.

Will people continue doing this, though, no matter how much we point it out? Does the pope poo in the woods....

@Lynne1Cat

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People who use ‘each’ wrong.

Like when I attended a BodyPump class for the first time and the instructor said ‘put two 2.5kg weights on each end’. I was confused and didn’t understand why I wouldn’t just put a 5kg on each end in that case, but I did. She came over a few minutes later, confused, and clarified that she’d meant two weights, one on each end.

Later on in the class she told us to pick up ‘two dumbbells in each hand’ and I realised it was just a really odd (confusing) quirk of the way she spoke. Since then I’ve come across it a few times in other people too and it’s maddening!

Talking of getting words wrong... this genuinely just appeared on my Facebook feed...

People saying ‘on my behalf’ rather than ‘on my part’, something like ‘that was a mistake on my behalf’.

People saying ‘the proof is in the pudding’.

OP I first noticed people doing this about 20 years ago, drives me fucking potty.

I hear 'genuarally' quite often, maybe the two words will eventually become one?!

Also DH says fucking 'slither' of cake. STAB.

My mum used to absolutely hate it if we ever said ‘a bit’ when referring to a liquid. Like, ‘could I have a bit of water please?’ She’d always correct us ‘you mean a DROP of water!’

I have never, ever come across anyone else who gets annoyed by this. Is this a thing?

My OH says "windowscreen" instead of "windscreen" and "pastor shelf" instead of "parcel shelf". Drives me bonkers! 😂😂😂

Cut of his nose despite his face.
On route.

Chimley for chimney.
Skellington for skeleton.

I love local dialects, but I think that's a different thing to saying the wrong word with the wrong meaning of what the correct word is, such as generally/genuinely pacific/specific.

I agree, but there are some regional variations which still grate on me. Some examples upthread are, "can you borrow me..." "we was" and "I done" - they are normal in some areas, but ...no. "Shew" is East Anglian.

I am usually more forgiving in speech, but one colleague writes things like, "he done that the previous week" in reports which go to management. And she's meant to be in charge of finding someone to assess the spoken English of our Czech colleagues... In one meeting, I made my lip bleed, as I was literally biting it so much, to avoid saying what I was thinking out loud.

I don't mind things like, "he give it to I," if it's in a strong Dorset accent, but then my accent be mostly from down by there.

I did offer my Dutch colleagues a lesson on irregular past particles and the like. We have a number of servers which have apparently been builded, putted into production and then shutted down. Annoyingly, one of them then quoted Blake's Jerusalem at me, with its use of builded. My British colleagues are mostly not so well educated.

My DFriend says chicken tiki masala . It has nothing to do with tropical cocktails. Arrg. I gently corrected her years ago, but its just stuck in her head as a curry cooked on a tropical island with palm fronds waving and a rum cocktail in hand.

DH went to boarding school and always tries to tell our DC to say I not me.

I keep trying to explain to both him and DC that sometimes I is appropriate and sometimes it isn't and me is the correct grammar.

I am a poor girl with no expensive education so obviously wrong....DOH.

Its iced tea, not ICE tea...! Grrr.

And it should be "it's" not "its" in my previous post, but clearly autocorrect disagrees. More rage!

Guy at work says basically at the beginning of nearly every sentence, drives me potty. He also says myself instead of me and ca-jooooon instead of cajun...the ca-joooon one makes me laugh though 😁

Someone on a Facebook selling page was selling a "Washington machine"

Less vs fewer - if you can count the items it's FEWER, if you can't it's LESS.
EG there are FEWER children here today: I'm eating LESS cake than I used to; 8 items or FEWER;

Also hate it when people muddle 'use to' and 'used to)'

And I hate 'was sat next to' rather than 'was sitting'. But that seems to be increasingly common nowadays

Bought (buy) vs brought (bring). Someone saying 'brung'...

Justask ooooh that one annoys me too! ‘Do you want to come with Chris and I to the cinema?’ Aaaaargh!

Even worse, I’ve actually seen people correct it on Facebook and the like. I once saw someone comment on a post which (correctly) said ‘Chris and me’, saying ‘sorry but I’m a real grammar pedant, you mean Chris and I’

It really bugs me when people use the word "nothing" in place of "anything", eg "I haven't received nothing" 😫

My OH also calls a Prawn Cocktail a Prawn and cocktail! 😂😂😂

@bluemoonchances

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Ex colleague used to go for a wonder round the shops. 🤔🤔🛍️👡