Words that make you want to go AAARRRRGGGH!

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Anyone else got any words/sentances that make you mad? Mine's - Well of course he/she is so forward for their age..........

Another 'childish' word which really bothers me (which MIL insists on teaching ds - aaaargh!) is ticktock. It's a b*** clock for goodness sake.

Wrong time of year but I hate crimbo too.

(I don't mean to be funny, but... basically, the point is) the next time you get a cold caller on the phone, say it's not convenient right now (to be honest), but ask them to give you their home phone number (right) so you can call them back... Hmmm - not many do... (whatever, yahdeyaya) DOH!

It fairs better than Xmas!

Janh - I'm another Aussie over here which is why I shouldn't be too critical as I know we convert everything with a name to having a y on it. Doug = dougy, ben = benny and so on. My cousin was so intent on this not happening she tried to name her kids with the least amount of letters in their name and names that can't be shortened. It's still bound to happen as we then insist on calling you by your surname and shortening that and putting a y on the end.

Strawman isn't actually from the show THe Office but from my work place. Can you believe I had to sit in a meeting which went for 5 hours and we reviewed the strawman policies we had devised. As far as I'm concerned they were drafts and pretty bloody good ones but why admit that to yourself when you can preten they are just rough that need loads of input and work!!!

Meanmum, the name you need is "Kay" Can't be shortened, can't have y added to the end. "Zoe" is another good one - although you can shorten it to Zo.

Why is it when I comment unfavourably on DH it's "nagging" and when he does it to me it's "constuctive criticism"?

Ooooh, meanmum, surname+y, I love it, footballers get it a lot - eg Giggsy - but try doing eg Beckhamy or Rooneyey or Oweny or van Nistelrooyey. I do it at my DS's and they look at me as if I'm demented! (Makes my dayey in fact.)

I have dead posh friends with a daughter called Amy and they call her Ames. Ways and means!

(How do you feel about prat, by the way? Another favourite of mine!) (Or is that also an Oz word?)

Prat is great. Sums up a lot of people in times of need. Tends to be used in the car a lot.

We would go with Becks for Becham, Owey for Owens and Vanny for Van Nistelroy. Honest we can do it with anything.

Umm...I say 'At the end of the day', and I hate it! I try to say 'ultimately' now. I also say 'Doh' on here if I have been really stupid, as it is easier than typing a whole sentence.

My hated word is 'moist' shudder shudder bleugh.

robyn3- I have the opposite problem - I hate it when people tell me off for saying "gee gee" to my three year old. I use it becuase he can say it. If he tried to say horse he would say "an" which he already uses to mean red, bus, stairs, creche, bed, watch and anything else of one syllable that he doesn't have another Martian word for.

Um hate the word "space" that seem to be a popular one round here. It makes me cringe every time I hear/see it.

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sb34 - you're a poxy idiot :0

Oops (Perhaps I'm the poxy idiot!)

Ooooh - I was SO tempted to type that too! I managed to restrain myself.

I quite like the word poxy actually. I can often be heard muttering "stupid poxy "

GOOD GIRL, SOUPDRAGON!!!!

Chinchilla, moist???? Did you ever read Bill Bryson's book on Europe? His literal translation of what Dutch sounds like includes the phrase "most moist" in relation to armpits - it always turns my stomach!

Meanmum, Becks is (of course) OK - anything to do with him is OK! - slurp slurp - not sure about the other 2. Just checked with DH and he says Van N is just "Ruuuuuuuud" - Owen doesn't appear to have a pet name, poor lamb.

Mmmm - might not have been armpits, come to think of it.....

A colleague of mine used to hate the word 'dooberry', which used to be used instead of 'thingy' or 'whatsit'.

but chinchilla - "dewberry" is a bona-fide Norfolk dialect word for "whatsit" - would be annoying from someone not from Norfolk / Suffolk though.

My flesh crawls at the phrase 'luncheon meats.' (Is that American?)

And I dislike the habit in the corporate world of adding 'ise' to nouns and getting nonsensical verbs, such as 'incentivise.'

Zebra, LOL.

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The phrase "way to go".

"By the way" added onto the beginning/end of a sentence (usually Glaswegian).

"As it goes" (SE England)

Pukka.

Wicked (as in something desirable).

Moreish.

When people say "I can't believe she's nearly a year old" (WHY?!!)

Regarding property schedules - have you noticed that rooms always "boast" a fireplace for example. Also that a room is "deceptively spacious".

I am sure there are lots and lots more I could think of in due course.

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The fashion round here at the moment is for kids to say a sentance and then add the word "yeah" at the end. It is soooooo annoying.

I hate somethink instead of something. I'm sure some people think it's actually a word.

My Dad has always said that an excited child is "showing off". Now that I have my own children the words showing off are banned in this house. As a child it was so insulting.

For all those driven mad by work jargon this might be amusing.

Lots of adolescent stuff drives me wild. 'Talk to the hand, cos..', 'whatever'.

Arggghhhhh

I absolutely hate "sexy" when someone is referring to a piece of software. And I have only ever heard men use it.