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?

Moist is my pet hate word. Makes me gag. Also some of the more vile words like hock up or blow job. I dont understand blow job because you suck. Bit suck me off also makes me vom

According to my dictionary, 'a myriad of' is correct when myriad is a noun.

When 'myriad' is an adjective, it's just myriad, no 'of'.

It's funny how some words or phrases aggravate us. I cannot bear it when people say 'do' to everything. For example, "oh do come to the party, "do join us" etc. It's as though they no longer want to say 'please'.
It's a way of speaking that only seems to have cropped up in the last couple of years and it absolutely drives me to rage 🤣.I think it's because it sounds patronising.

Aggravate when it should be irritate or annoy, not make worse...

@LunaNorth
‘A myriad of’ - nope. It’s just ‘myriad’. Such a beautiful word, please use it correctly.

I must have been making this mistake . How would you use it correctly? I would have said something like 'there are a myriad of choices' - is the correct way to say 'there are a myriad choices'?

@snowgirl1

‘There are myriad choices.’

Use it like ‘many’.

That's using it as an adjective.

You can also use it correctly as a noun. A myriad of choices.

I think its usage as a noun has come about due to people using it wrongly as such.

@Charcutaria

I know this is meant to be "light-hearted" (my personal bugbear) but it leaves me feeling depressed when people pick apart the way others speak like this... There have been no names given here, no workplaces shared, if you are feeling depressed about words on a forum, I suggest that you stop reading said (I hate this) forum. I also really dislike the use of the word sadly when someone has died. Another one I dislike is the use of the word passed, when someone has died.

Where I work (medical place), we are told about anyone who dies, by a company-wide email from the practice manager entitled "today's RIPs". If I am the person that sees a death notification from hospital, I let the manager know and say "this patient died yesterday, please process as usual". My colleague told me off for being unfeeling. She expected me to write "this patient passed away". To me, you pass someone in the street, or pass wind. Death is death and medics shouldn't be coy about it!

I would rather say died, too. I was on a work call recently where someone started talking about a US colleague who had passed, and it took me a while to realise they meant died rather than passed an exam.

And yes! to the pp who is annoyed by people not understanding the difference between upload and download! I worked with someone who would every day say "I've uploaded the online mail so you can get on with it" and everyday I'd want to say "you didn't write it, the consultants did, and you DOWNloaded it to our system" But I never did.
She also didn't get the concept of internal v external mail. When the postie brought letters with stamps on to us, I said "the external mail is here" and she would ask "do you mean the stuff from our other sites?" and every day I'd want to reply, "no, that's internal mail, from withIN our organisation, brought here by one of our colleagues, in a box". Every day

Another colleague confuses bought and brought.
Another says 'at the end of the day' and 'not being funny' (she really isnt!)
And DH says '8am in the morning'

And bloody every woman I know seems to call everyone Hun, and put a x at the end of every text, email, Facebook comment, or even work notification. Aaaaaaarrrghhhh

''Beautiful girl, you can do hard things''.

Just makes me picture a girl bearing down on a hard dick.

It's plastered all over ''encouraging/motivational'' cups/blankets/coasters etc at the moment, like this:

www.naturallife.com/collections/blankets/products/beautiful-girl-tapestry-blanket?collectionResult&collection_id=218715127971&collection_handle=blankets&pos=3

Absolute shite.

I think its usage as a noun has come about due to people using it wrongly as such.

No, apparently it was used back in the 16th century as a noun, and Milton used in the plural - myriads of.

My exh announces the time of an appointment as 1600 hours. I know it's not incorrect but I want to kill him. Sometimes I reply 'as opposed to 1600 carrots?'

I'm amused at how many people say ''I turned around and said........." or "she turned around and said........". Sometimes there is so much turning round they must be dizzy & fall over.

Cutie What a crock of shit that is! It's not even a well-written sentence!

"Hard" things? "Do" Hard things??

Baby talk....utter shite.

@CherryRipe1
You beat me to it, I was talking to someone a few days ago she was repeating part of a conversation she had with someone else and said
so I turned around and said at the end of the day I dont think so if you know what I mean

Umm that will be just no then .

Just thought of another one.
I give you ‘old money/new money’ 🤮

'Comprised of ' or 'comprising of ' also irritates the hell out of me ...no 'of' is required!

Another one that really annoys. I have a friend who says 'and that' on the end of sentences - as in 'I'm going to see Fred and that'. I always want to reply 'and that what?' but end up biting my tongue....

@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?!

Both very irritating! I lived in Australia & often heard "can I get the cheeseburger?" Self-catering/help yourself.