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?

Download. "I need to download my meeting with my team".

1. It's wankerspeak.
2. Wouldnt you actually be uploading? You upload information you have. You upload your information or files. Downloading is taking information. The user downloads information themself, you can't download for/into them!

Omg.... "suited and booted" makes me rage 😂

@Spybot

I'm in the States. I have to restrain myself when I hear people, most often men, say " I'll do the double cheeseburger" or " I'll do the fried chicken". What's wrong with saying " I'll have the chicken" or " Can I have the cheeseburger". Can't stand it! Another one is that is driving me bonkers is when people say " I'm super excited" or " I'm super pissed off". Why don't people say very anymore?!

LOL, also in the States (HI NEIGHBOR!), and knowing what "do" is a euphemism for here, when I hear "I'll do the chicken," I always want to say, "PLEASE GOD, not here in public, you prevert!"

You lot need to get a life

@Noidontwantmootard

Cringe is a word I would never use. It rhymes with minge.

This made me giggle!

Thought of lots more..

Hubby... although I've took the piss out of this so often it's starting to sound normal 🙄😂

"Should of" or "could of" etc

Its SHOULD HAVE AND COULD HAVE ARGH!

Source. As in "Timothy, can you source some ink for the printer"

Wtf is wrong with "can you buy/find/get some printer ink Timothy?"

*taken the piss that should HAVE said 🙄

@lollylimejuice

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.

Yes! Australian Questioning Intonation. My daughters have it as we lived in Australia for a few years. However my stepson has it & never lived there. Ditto daughter's boyfriend. So annoying when everything they say sounds like a question.

Stunning gives me the rage also don’t know why but I hate it when people refer to “this one” as in “this one’s birthday” or they’ll say “these two” Facebook obviously

People complaining about the language others use gives me the rage

My sister calls family "you guys". We are NOT Goonies.

You'd hate me then haha I go way further than that! I have often referred to food as sexy or slutty.

Foodie. It is awful. It makes my shoulders reach my ears and my whole body frown 😖

Lawyer. No the word is solicitor.

Lawyer is a perfectly good Middle English word meaning someone who practises law. Could be a solicitor, a barrister or an advocate.

Or, of course, even someone who practices law outside the UK. (Such things do happen.)

practises law FFS I know how to spell that word

When did 'get go' take over from the word 'start'? It doesn't even make sense, but it does p*ss me off.

@Stylinson

When people say “can you borrow me £1”. One of DD’s friends says it. and she says “I brung” rather than “I brought”

Oh I HATE that!

It’s LEND, can you LEND me

Proper winds me up

Very entertaining thread. I just thought of the Bernard Shaw quote: ‘It’s impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate and despise him.’ Substitute ‘British woman’ for ‘Englishman’ and not much has changed in 100 years.

Haha, Fortune you have just used one of my pet hates!

"I'd be like OH FUCK OFF!"

You would be like it? Not say it, for example?

Squishee It's a way of introducing a performance of sorts...so you say,

"I'd be like...." and then play out how you would act! It's like saying "I'd be like this..." and then showing how you'd be reacting.

@lottielimejuice we must be related....

In radio traffic reports "the accident at X location has been moved"
Surely the vehicles involved have been moved, not the accident itself?

People saying "reach out" instead of "contact"....

When people say , “ he/she is a stunner”🙄 stunner.... hate it.
Or as in a child , they are going to break a few hearts when they are older 🙄

Or love you to the moon and back 🙄

"My journey" as in the life I've lived through. "Tell us about your journey". It's a typical 'X' factor expression when they want your vote so tell you a sob story.