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?

When people say ‘baby’ when they mean to say ‘the baby’ gives me the total rage. Not ‘baby needs a nap’ but ‘THE baby needs a nap’. THE baby! A midwife once referred to my child as ‘baby’ not ‘the baby’ and I really had to restrain myself so hard!

When influencers do the Get Ready With Me videos and every piece of make up they start using they say, ‘now I’m going to go in with the (insert brand name and exact shade of mascara).’ I don’t understand why they can’t just say, ‘now I’ll be using…’

’Go in with’ is especially cringe when the people doing this aren’t make-up artists. It just really angers me for some reason.

It is what it is

Old uni flatmate (English Lit under and post grad courses) used to rage when people said “off of” as in “I took it off of the table.”

I still don’t know what a noun is so I’ve no idea how they put up with my heathen International Politics ways for all those years…

^This. See also ‘mum’ and ‘dad’ e.g. can dad sit there while mum holds baby for his injection

Not a new one, but one that annoys me is "flashing her pins". Tabloids do it all the time. "Amanda Holden flashes her pins in black minidress". What they mean is "Amanda Holden walks down a street".

The other thing that riles me is the elimination of "to the" from sentences. "I'm going shop", "I'm going town" etc.

"Unboxing" for opening a toy.

And of course... "was ya?"

It was always a sign that the primary school child saying it was lying when I was a teacher.

I didn't do it by purpose miss, it was on accident!

If you go to Australia bring your ear plugs cos this lot muddle up words non-stop 😂 My most hated is ‘crutch’ instead of ‘crotch’. If they can switch a word for one that means something totally different they will. Now I’m off to find some more relative information for this thread…

Vicious circle is correct. It's older.

I can never quite figure which one of these to use to be honest and I've genuinely tried to understand it!

'Cockwomble' is the stupidest word. What does it mean? It's not even an insult.

So that's one thing that makes me angry

When you ask someone how they are and they reply, "very well thank you" So braggy. Why can't they just be "fine thanks" like the rest of us

I'm not a bloody snob! And my dislike of "Can I get" is nothing to do with reading too many Bronte novels.

"Can I get" sounds like you are expecting to have to go and fetch the goods yourself and that you need to ask permission before you take it/them. Given that this question is most often asked in an environment where the items are required to be handed over to the consumer by someone else, then "Can I order" or "Can I have" just sounds more appropriate.

Using "apart" instead of "a part" makes my eyes bleed. "I'm so thankful to be apart of this family/team/whatever. Morons.

I also die inside a little when I hear "I'm going to change their bum" instead of nappy.

I have only ever seen "holibobs" referred to in threads like this, never in the wild (thank goodness!)

This one makes me twitch, as it often comes across as a passive acceptance of poor treatment or exploitation and the person's been worn down so much they've just given up on fighting it.

On a similar note, I've always hated "life's not fair". It may be true, but it's so unsympathetic and dismissive of a person (usually a child) with a strong sense of justice.

To be clear, I don't have any issue with the sentiments behind these phrases. It's the modern day Serenity Prayer: focus on the things you can do something about and stop fretting about the rest. But it doesn't really come across that way.

Yes! A navy blue trouser eugh

I just remembered PlattyJubes and Beveragino - both give me simultaneous rage and the ggiggles

Same. I’m Irish and ‘can’ is often used in place of ‘may’ but ‘can I get’ is a recent import from the US. Same as in the UK.
Don’t get me started on how so many young people in Ireland are talking in a fake American accent. Very annoying.

I agree but "it is what it is" seemed to take the place of "it's all good" which was even worse as at least "it is what it is" is factually correct.

Me too! I mean no one says “I have physical health” when they’re talking about being diabetic or having cancer (or whatever other poor physical health).

‘Off of’ makes me want to slap whoever said or wrote it.
Ditto ‘inside of’ or ‘outside of’ where the ‘of’ is redundant, as in ‘outside of the town centre.’

my husband says it, along with Morribobs (Morrisons)😫

On the whole he's a decent man, so I try to switch off to it.

I refuse to believe anyone says "holibobs" with their tongue anywhere but their cheek. 😂

"We're going to have a wonderful holibobs over Chrimbo" is, tbf, the sort of thing I would say on a wind-up.

That and "bluebs" for blueberries. I'm amazed I still have friends.

Yes I always thought it was vicious circle