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?

I know a lot of you will be disappointed here but “can I” / “may I” smugness does not work in many service industry situations.

“Can I buy a coffee” - a good question, checks that the coffee shop is open for business, hasn’t run out of coffee etc

”May I buy a coffee” - I don’t fucking know mate are you on day release or something

‘Plate up’, said by my teens. Shall I help you plate up? We’re not in a bloody restaurant here!

What’s wrong with that? To be honest, I can’t get past the thought of someone’s teens offering to help plate up the dinner (dish up?!)

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth! 😆

I hate 'pre-warn'. I hear it a lot at work and it really annoys me - if you're telling me about it it's already a warning!

Also using 'myself' instead of 'me', e.g. "Could you send that to myself"

Are you the op ?

"Can I get" is old English 🤷🏻‍♀️ not grammatically incorrect

Yes to both these! "Pre-prepared" - so... it hasn't been prepared yet, then?

I also once had a call centre operator say "if yourself could just pop that in an email to myself..."

I dislike 'unhoused' and 'reach out'

I remember a very long thread on that in which a handful of us teuchters were very much outnumbered!

Gotten is correct in hiberno English.

I'm in Ireland and never said that, nor do my kids?

Myself is correct in certain instances I hiberno English. My particular favourite is "Is it yourself that's in it?" as a greeting to someone you're surprised to see.

That’s just to get past the suicide filters on TikTok etc. It was written about in one of my uni textbooks. See also ‘sewer slide’ and ‘kms’. Finishing shampoo and conditioner at the same time is another one. There’s a whole world of mental illness related phrases that are coined to bypass filters.

Me neither. I could say "Can I have?" while knowing that it should be "may I have"

Vile and cockwomble.

Muchly
ridic (ulous)
neurospicy
to name a few

The one at work that always bothers me is ‘on a night/on a morning’ - ‘they get two paracetomal on a night, he loves his coffee on a morning.’

What does that even mean? I’ve eventually worked out it means every night, but it’s just a weird phrase and a weird way of putting things.

Work is a mix of northern English accents but this seems a Boro thing.

‘LOL’ gives me the rage
Brought instead of bought

Calling Autism 'the tism'. I don't know why it makes me cringe so much.

Perhaps the colour on the other lip transferred to the coffee cup, leaving it a more muted colour?

Ugh yes. First time I heard it I hadn't a clue what it meant and had to ask.

@OchonAgusOchonOh, the gotten hatred on here drives me crazy. Completely correct in Hiberno-English which an entire nation uses.
As an aside, one of my mum’s phrases when we were having a catch up was “Now tell me this, and tell me no more” followed by a query re various grandchildren’s activities etc.

Ahhh we say dish up

Fruits and "veggies"

🤢

So juvenile.

Very much agree with this one.

Renovating in place of decorating! Especially instagram accounts that take you on their “reno journey”

@OkPedro

Alright Pedro, keep calm. It's a lighthearted post,