To ask you which other '-isms' you find really grating....

[Sebsaloysius]

Following on in the spirit of the "I could care less" post earlier, what other new age/adopted phrases make your ears burn? Unfortunately, I'm adding to the USA pile on (although they likely could care less) as I'm pretty sure they are responsible for my own pet hate.

When ordering food at a cafe, restaurant, bar or anywhere in fact, when and why did we lose "Can I have" or "I'd like to order" to "Can I get"??

Only the other week did I overhear an elderly, well-spoken lady in a deli queue drawl "Can I get a pear and Shropshire Blue sourdough loaf". I wanted to tell her that she had no right to that beautifully crafted, quintessentially British artesan bread by asking for it in such a manner, and push her out of the door to reinforce the point (I didn't, before the MN police come at me).

I also find "sorry not sorry" vile. Not only are you 'not sorry', you're now also a dismissive cockwomble, so I like you even less than I did 5 seconds ago.

What are yours?

"Different than" is incorrect - it's different "from" or "to". "Than" is used with a direct comparative (bigger than etc).

How are you? I’m good.

No! You may be well, or not. I’ll leave your goodness to you and your moral conscience.

Don't know if it's regional, most people refer to M&S as Markies in Aberdeen and it's a popular meet up point in Aberdeen .

"Different than" sounds moronic to me.

Hahaha. On reading the hatred for gotten, I thought it would be good to start a thread on Hiberno-English words/phrases, incorporating English words whose origins lie in Gaelige.

Oh I loathe this as well!! “…much?” I’ve heard jealous/confused/angry… ..
awful much? 😜

I'm not sure the "or not" in "whether or not" is needed

My dad was irrationally annoyed by "whether or not." (Mind you, he was irrationally annoyed by a lot of things, which is probably why I try hard not to be.) He was adamant the "or not" was redundant. Once when he was moaning about it I said I was going to carry on doing it whether he liked it.

People who think it should be "vicious cycle" rather than "vicious circle" - I think I'd only ever heard "vicious circle" for nearly 60 years until I started reading this thread. Could it be a regional difference?

Lose/loose.

'Loose' is used nearly all the time, on MN at least. It's got to the stage where I'm astonished to see 'lose' used at all.

Someone senior at work does it all the time, and now several other people have started doing it. It drives me mad!

I know this is regional but I cannot handle baked potatoes being called jackets. Makes me want to scream!

'Future-proof'
'To be fair'
'Could of, should of, would of"
'Prep' instead of 'prepare'....how much longer does it take to say the full word?!
'Excited for' instead of 'excited about'
'Somefink'
People who drop the word 'obviously' into sentences, when the thing they're describing isn't at all obvious. 'Obviously I had chips for dinner'.
People who say, 'She turned round and said bla bla bla, and then he turned round and said bla bla bla'. I just imagine pirouetting ballerinas having a slanging match.

ARGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH

Oh yes! This drives me mad. I always want to ask, "Good at what, in particular?"

It’s better than ‘popping’, though. Popping out to the shops, popping a lasagne in the oven, popping in to see a neighbour, popping on a ‘pop’ of lip colour, having a pop of mustard in your teal living room. It’s so twee.

I would agree but when you're dealing with teenage girls, black and white is sometimes the easiest approach to take.

I can't stand it either, especially in recipes! Why do I have to 'grab' a handful of chives?! Am I in a dreadful hurry or might the chives run away if I don't quickly snatch them?!

I haven’t read the whole thread, has the ubiquitous overuse of “The” by marketeers been mentioned? It has been particularly bad in M&S - “The Trouser”, “The Jqcket”, etc.

I always use 'may I'm rather than 'can I', I also use the subjunctive where appropriate, you can take the girl out of the Grammar school...............!

I loathe 'peas' for pence, they're both single syllable words, I always used to tell my pupils that peas come in pods, tins or freezer bags but not in my lesson.

Influencers referring to a piece of clothing or home ware as 'she'.
Ie trying on a dress and saying 'she's giving 90's vibes'. Actually also see 'giving' in this context.

Non-native English speaker here with plenty of pet hates...

"I'm excited for Christmas"

"I brought it off of Amazon" (double horror)

"I was sat eating cake"

"John and I's relationship" (no words)

I know language evolves and, in a few years, these expressions will probably be fully assimilated and acceptable, but I LOATHE them.

On the flipside, I'd like everyone to adopt the most excellent Scottish word of "outwith". So descriptive and useful!

Thought of another one....

'End of.'

End of what?! People used to say 'End of story'. What happened to the story?!

PS: Dislike "curated", unless you work in a museum

May I add 'less than'' and 'fewer 'than' to the mix. Simply put, the former is used when measuring, the latter when counting. Fewer people were less than 1.6m tall.

I regard 'end of' as a verbal two fingers!

I irrationally dislike referring to someone who has died as "the late......" My father was never late for anything in his life - he would have been outraged at people referring to him as "the late XX". I realise that it is common parlance and my annoyance is irrational, but I'm grateful for the opportunity to have a little rant - thanks, OP!