Does anyone else now find certain phrases extremely irritating?

[Welovewhitenoise]

I don't mean the new Covid phrases like "social distancing", "new normal" etc although reading the word "masks" makes me really cross for some reason even though I am fully behind and adhere to mask wearing etc

For some reasons phrases like "fed up", "had enough", "end of my tether" make me feel furious! Not because I don't empathise because I absolutely, completely do (I'm not angry because I'm one of those scathing race to the bottom posters, more the opposite)

Maybe it's the frustration and feeling of impotence of not being able to help those who similarly feel fed up etc etc as I do? And that empathising with other posters makes me feel my same feelings more acutely?

I don't know! But I've found I read many threads any more because I feel so stressed and irritated even though I'm completely with the posters and agree with them

But that’s not a schwa though.

The short /o/ sound is the same as the sound in ‘coffee.’

A schwa is the sound that ‘e’ makes in ‘women.’

Jab (is it too hard to use the 2-syllable word vaccine?)

Road map

Exit strategy (because the last 'exit' strategy led very effectively right back to the start again, thanks government).

Countess if I say "coronavirus" out loud, the first o definitely comes out as a schwa. But it's a short o at heart

(it only gets schwaified cause it's unstressed; in "coronation" the first o is stressed and comes out, as you say, like in "coffee")

Not so much just on here but on adverts and work emails:

Hope this email finds you safe and well

Now more than ever

Covid secure

Stay safe

And basically anything that is said on a fucking bank advert.

New normal
Unprecedented times
If I may...
And, usually from the BBC reporter during any briefing, ‘can we safely book a holiday/getaway now?’

The rolled “r” in coronavirus: I don’t listen to radio 4 any more at all because of this.

Has nobody mentioned nicknames for face masks? I’m afraid I love calling them by words people hate; if I fancy a longer nickname, I refer to them as “badges of allegiance to the Johnson school of obedience”, especially following the u-turn on them being “ineffective”.

Yes, but we were discussing the word ‘covid’ and not ‘coronavirus.’

Agree the example you give is a schwa.

No, it's not a schwa in Covid. I mentioned the schwa in coronavirus because the co- of Covid comes from the co- of coronavirus, and the schwa in the co- of coronavirus makes it harder to tell that it's originally a short o (and that therefore it's okay for Covid to be pronounced with a short o).