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?

When my dd says "x told off y to the teacher" i always correct her and say no "x told on y to the teacher" why it drives me mad i have no idea but had done since i was a child.

I say a few words wrong and drives oh mad but thats my accent and it comes across differently and im just a bit strange lol

I hate when people say "hey guys" makes me want to squirm inside when did people stop saying hello....

The word babe used outside in front of people......keep those words for inside the house please

Im sure there is more just give me time.....

On the nouns used as verbs thing - my pet hate is 'scapegoated', as in 'oh yes well your son does seem to have been scapegoated'....
Aarrgghhh no it's not a verb!! My son was the scapegoat. FFS

And basically annoys me too. If it was that basic then surely I could have worked it out

"Up and down the country". It's never 'people throughout the country' or 'the whole country', it's always 'people up and down the country'. Always. It's been going for years. Drives me INSANE.

You can say a hotel or an hotel. Not everyone pronounces the h in hotel, even these days, though it probably is dieing out.

When people start every sentence with ‘So’
It really gets on my nerves

I've never even heard 'fry off' and secondment means nothing cringe-wise.

No, don't care about 'secondment' at all. But -

"hubby". Hate it hate it hate it.
"Grandkids". Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh !! For fuck's sake, they're your grandchildren, not a flock of goats.
"incredibly" - vastly overused.
"robust" - ditto. And it should refer to support tights or suspension bridges, not government policy

ooh yes "gift". I "gifted" them to blah blah blah.

No, sod off, you GAVE them.
REPEAT AFTER ME, GIFT IS A NOUN NOT A VERB thank you.

Excuse me, just had a long shift and I am on the juice.
(hope that expression doesn't annoy anyone ).

@CheetasOnFajitas

“Onboarding”

As in “I am onboarding three new receptionists today”. Or “we’ll need new staff to do this, we must make sure we budget for the onboarding costs”

Often used with “piece” as mentioned above- “Josie will be looking at the onboarding piece in advance of the meeting.”

What would you call it?

“ it’s not normal” ... as in ooh that chocolate was so delicious it’s not normal ..,
What?? It’s a chocolate, people eat them because usually, normally , they taste nice
🤷‍♀️

@CheetasOnFajitas

The piece, as in

“We must make sure we consider the Finance piece in this project” or “then you have the whole Health and Safety piece..”

It’s especially amusing to Scots because, to us, a “piece” is a sandwich.

I hate it when newsreaders refer to a correspondent's "piece". When did it stop being a "report"?

Chocolate Bicky.

As in Chocolate biscuit.

A boyfriend said this on our first date. He was a lovely man but I remember thinking it wasn't going to work out. Although it did for four years so the Bicky was misleading.

“Y’all”. Makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

My sister hates the word "curated"
DH never liked me calling my FIL" your dad". "He is my father not my dad". Dad to him was some weird nickname that English people used, he is German so Dad was Pappi.

- panini’s and pizza’s. No, just no! Panino and pizza (singular) or panini and pizze (plural)

So, presumably, piani and stiletti?

OH MY GOD IVE FOUND MY SOUL MATE OP.

This gives me so much bloody anger. Food is not beautiful. This comes from a lady who has put on 2.5 stone during lockdown from eating too much food haha.

"So fun" annoys me intensely.
Fun is a noun, not an adjective. The correct phrase is "such fun" or " lots of fun"

Also hate "fry off".
Actual most chef phrases make me cringe, from baste to simmer, from making a "bechamel" or "Ragu" to "casseroling" or "saute-ing". Urrgh.

Frying and stewing should be enough

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'.

An holiday? An hockey stick? An hospital? An helicopter?

Actually I also hate it when people say they "need to get on". So very self important.
"Press on" is fine though.

I've always said a Hotel. An hotel with a dropped H must be leftover French so very cringe-y. As in Armoire cringe-y or bouquet cringe-y. Cupboard and bunch please.

@user1496146479

Alternative words for “onboarding”:

In the context of (eg) budgeting for new staff- recruitment

In the context of introducing a new joiner to the company and settling them in- induction, settling in. Possibly “bringing on board”.

The one phrase I hate, especially when written down is
of when it is used instead if have - so: I could of ..., She won't of ...

Cringe!!!
Lol

@Yespresh

Lawyer. No the word is solicitor.

No, lawyer is the umbrella term for both lawyers and barristers (in England &Wales).

I am a solicitor and have no objection to being referred to as a lawyer. Nor do any of my thousands of colleagues.

Off of.
I had to get off of the bus. Gives me rage

@lollylimejuice

My son is a Solicitor, calls himself that. I always thought Lawyer was an American word.

Well, lawyer is also used in America but the American word which they use and we do not is “attorney”.