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?

How do you feel about people saying "Lidl's"?

As in, "We'll go to Lidl's first and then to Morribobs."

It’s Specifically not Pacificly

It’s Definitely not Defiantly

It’s Too not To (As is me too)

It’s Genuinely not Generally

Haitch is correct. Well, unless you're a protestant obviously.

Platty jubes…I had to think for a min to work that one out😡. I’d be willing to do time for assault if I heard someone say that in real life 🤣🤣

That would put an instant end to my sex life, he must be God like to survive that.

I’m guilty of “tescos” and also see pp…not markies for me but “marksies” (…I’ll get my coat…😜)

Thanks for all the comments, we haven't got any heating in the house as the boiler decided to pack up and leave home this morning, so reading all the replies has taken my mind off the fact I'm so damn cold!

As a final hurrah. a friend has a couple of heated blankets that she has offered to lend us while the boiler gets sorted. She messaged me earlier to say she would drop them in on her way to visit her mother who lives in the same village as us. The friend's message read "I'll be leaving around 8, I'm still unchristmassing, it's taking me longer than I thought".

Unchristmassing??

Draws instead of drawers is my pet hate. White hot rage.

‘Chester drawers’

I think that’s ok because the nurse can’t be expected to know the names of the parents of the patient.
I agree it’s only ok to use ‘baby’ if the baby doesn’t have name yet.

I'm desperately trying to resist Googling PlattyJubes - I'll ponder it overnight!

Is it 'I can't be arsed' or 'I can't be asked' ?

I say arsed but my DP says asked. I have never heard of that before.

Wahaha ‘moribobs’ made me laugh
he may get on well with my dh who refers to Sainsburys as ‘sainsbo’s’ 🤣

Also the GennyLec and CozzyLivs 😰

Oh god, I sometimes say bluebs for blueberries, think that's the first time I've spotted something on one of these threads that I actually say!

My DP often says "can I get a coffee" if I offer to make him a drink. I dislike the expression at the best of times but it makes zero sense at home! It's just as well he's nearly perfect in every other way as otherwise he'd be under the patio by now!

It's Old(er) English, Scots or Irish English

Fine, mosti yet conjecten that ye wolde finde it pretty damn weird if people started hoyen ony auld words from any version of Béarla into their sentences.

It's not the gotten gotcha you think it is 😏

Effect is the noun and affect is the verb.

Thank you @OchonAgusOchonOh - but that seems to be one of those rules that's broken as much as it's adhered to - for example "flat affect".

Go on, @BarbaraHoward!

You forgot

‘groceries’ when it should be ‘messages’

‘rather softly-spoken’ when it should be ‘fierce quiet’

’I’m practically dead’ when it should be ‘I’m grand’

’he has poor mental health’ when it should be ‘his nerves are at him’ (which can cover anything from a bit of a cry to full-blown psychosis).

... but ... you can effect a solution, which is one of those awkward noun-to-verb neologisms that people love to bicker about!

You could just as well bring off, pull off, achieve, complete or even deliver the solution. Some things just aren't worth the argument, though.

I misread that as ‘Moriboobs’ and thought it was some niche new coinage involving death and bosoms…

Ooh, ooh, I know this one! It's a different meaning of affect. It's an appearance of mood, or demeanour, same source as affectation.

"A whole nother"

I've never heard of flat affect so googled it. Maybe the term started as a verb phrase and was abbreviated or something?

Which pronouns?