To cringe when people say...

[Dalmore30]

Food being described as ‘beautiful’, ‘gorgeous’ or ‘stunning’ makes me wants to vomit.

I have to bite my tongue when people say ‘fry off’ rather than just fry.

And the word ‘secondment’ makes my skin crawl!

Is anyone with me on these?

Put the hoover round! Put? Round?

"Annual leave" makes me irrationally angry. "I'm on annual leave" no, you're on holiday.

I have taken annual leave without actually going on holiday. So there is some difference.

I cringe when people say craft "let me craft that for you" "can you craft me some words" Vom.

My MIL describes food as ‘scrummy’ which drives me around the twist

I absolutely hate on Masterchef when the judges say “plate of food” as in “That is a stunning plate of food”. Just say food, meal, dish, whatever!

Starting a sentence with 'So' grrr!
Saying 'a hotel'.... it's 'AN HOTEL' okay!
People are HANGED, meat is hung. You cannot be hung by the neck until dead unless your an inanimate object or a piece of meat.
Voice rising on the last word of a sentence, sorry all you Aussies out there.

Threads like this make me feel paranoid. I’ve definitely used both “super” and “secondment” in emails today. I do not know how I could avoid using “secondment” that’s just what it is. The only error that I find irritating is “very unique”. No, it is either unique or it isn’t. I dislike being called “Hun”, actually, I dislike the moniker for anyone. Someone will now tell me that they dislike “moniker”.

Possibly controversial but......Hubby 🤢

@lollylimejuice

‘A hotel’ is correct. ‘An hotel’ is incorrect.

@lollylimejuice sounds like something my Nan would have said in strong Brummy accent whilst trying to be posh (think brummy version of Dot Cotton) "We am going to an hotel" 😂

“Touch base” particularly when used to mean that someone is mentioning something.

[quote Lucy830]@lollylimejuice

‘A hotel’ is correct. ‘An hotel’ is incorrect.[/quote]
No - 'a hotel' is incorrect - it is 'an hotel' - read the grammar websites. It's something I have known all my life, if you use an indefinite article before a noun which begins with 'h', then it should be 'an'.

Not quite the same but the recorded message on our doctors surgery phone says “you are queue position X, in the queue”. Every time I think why.

""to be fair......" enrages me. I started picking people up on it when they said it and it turned into a weird kind of contagious Tourettes syndrome. Also, "Obviously....." Who is it obvious to? Certainly not me. I also agree with the previous poster regarding starting sentences with "So....." Grrrrrr!

Lawyer. No the word is solicitor.

Moist

I hate it when people use ‘of’ instead of ‘have’ and say things like “I could of / should of/ would of etc.....It also bugs me when the words
‘they are ‘ are replaced by ‘thems’ in sentences such as ‘ thems the ones I wanted’, etc....grrrrrrrr!

People using the word delicious to describe none food things, like "a delicious run", "a delicious yoga session", I mean no, just no.

I hate it when people say soz ,whatevs, BFF and FYI. It makes me want to scream

Think you need to chill out 🤣

@MagicSummer

You would only use ‘An hotel’, if you were dropping the ‘H’ and pronouncing it ‘o-tel’. It was originally a french word so it used to be ‘an o-tel’.

If you are not dropping the ‘H’ and saying it like most people in Britain today do, it is ‘A hotel’.

From the Oxford dictionary: Some speakers do not pronounce the ‘h’ at the beginning of hotel and use ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ before it. This now sounds old-fashioned.

@MagicSummer. Thankyou, I was beginning to doubt myself!

@Yespresh

Lawyer. No the word is solicitor.

My husband says he’s a lawyer. He’s a barrister and is trying to be modest.

Can’t stand sentences beginning with ‘so’. Hate when people say ‘haitch’ instead of ‘a itch’. ‘Can I get (a coffee)’ instead of ‘can I have’. People adding ‘socially distanced of course’ at the end of any description of an outing/meeting. I can think of a million more things....

Pre-order. Pre-effing-order. Isn’t every ‘order’ in advance???!!! Just tell people to flippin’ order your product!