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Words that make you want to go AAARRRRGGGH!

211 replies

Furball · 03/04/2003 14:55

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

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jobey · 05/04/2003 15:05

Snickers you just reminded me of a word I haven't heard for years and hate it.Me too 'WOTSITS'I have a great big hang up about this when I was little my mum called my down stairs department,(sorry I didn't know what words I am allowed to put)a wotsit.Then when other people called every other thing a you know a wotsit I must of had such a confussed look on my face it scared me for life and now makes me cringe.

bunny2 · 05/04/2003 20:56

Bron, I know what you mean, I can harldy type this one - cltors .I can only say it when very drunk. Hate it.

Eulalia · 05/04/2003 21:51

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Eulalia · 05/04/2003 22:20

In case anyone is short of management crudspeak phrases, here's a link to an autogenerator.

I think DH's company uses it for its web pages and CEO's emails.

Bossanova · 05/04/2003 23:24

Telephone calls that start - "This is just a courtesy call.." trying to pretend they're not selling you something. Sorry, real courtesy is bloody well leaving me to get on with my life in peace thank you! By the way, if they ask that question about how many windows I would want if I could replace them free, I always say 600 because if they're free I may as well be generous and get the whole street done!

jasper · 05/04/2003 23:52

Bossanova - so called courtesy calls..argh! Do whay my dad does , say to them "before we start can I have your name and telephone number seeing as you have mine?". They always get off the line pretty quickly.

monkey · 06/04/2003 10:51

I can't bear any americanisms - sorry to any americans out there - but especially when uttered by Brits. The worst/ones that spring to mind are 'Monday thru Saturday' - What's wrong with Monday to Saturday - why can't americans seem to spell and have to 'idiotise' all the words with vaguely 'difficult' spelling, or 'add on' eg I was buglarised. No, you were burgled. aaarrrrggggghhhhhhh.

I saw on some us chat show or other some man saying 'I was conversing with my wife'. Why not just say 'talking'????

Leaving our American cousins for a moment - engorged - yuk, horrid word. No, back to america - enough already!!!!!

Don't know why, but in SE, or at least in Kent everyone seems to say 'out door' and 'indoors' all the time (I never used it - always outside & inside) don't know why I don't like it - maybe it was the strange frequency they managed to squeeze it into their conversations. Oh, and always refering to London as 'up town'.

monkey · 06/04/2003 11:13

My mil, who is very lovely, nevertheless, insists oon refering to everything she likes as 'delectable'.

Eulalia · 06/04/2003 13:32

People who call the ground the 'floor'.

Panties.

The Wife or The Missus.

jasper · 06/04/2003 23:41

More Americanism, "math" (as in maths), and their pronounciation of mirror as "Meer" , at least thats how a Scottish person would write it the way it sounds when they say it.

Sincere apologies to Sofiames and others.

Incidentally , annoying words as spoken by Scottish people are too numerous to mention but my pet hates are seen instead of saw ( "I seen him yesterday " ) and done instead of did (" I done that yesterday" ) and went instead of gone ("the water level has went down" )

monkey · 07/04/2003 08:06

Another southernism, but i think it's spread into general use now(thanks to certain (ex?)celebrities, perhaps?), but 15 years ago it was very strange when everyone kept saying 'alright?' I couldn't work it out, as it seemed to be both a question & an answer, in fact, a whole conversation.
-Alright?
-Yeah, alright.

But also doubled up as 'keep your pants on!
ie- alright!

My grandma clearly has a thing against people saying they're fine or ok, & it used to wind me up. eg she'd say
Would you like a cup of tea?
No thanks, i'm fine
I didn't ask how you were, I asked if you wanted a cup of tea.
Blimey - alright alright!

janh · 07/04/2003 09:41

jasper, I take it you watch House Doctor, she has a meer in every programme!

jasper · 07/04/2003 14:11

yes janh

NQWWW · 07/04/2003 16:02

People who phone you up and start off by apologising every time ("Sorry, its only me, you're not busy are you?"

edgarcat · 07/04/2003 16:06

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edgarcat · 07/04/2003 16:18

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IDismyname · 07/04/2003 16:50

"At this moment in time"
"Moist"
"Lush"
"Flesh" - you can string the last 3 together..!

... and anyone calling me "Dear".
I just want to thump them

Bugsy · 08/04/2003 10:50

The "people's princess", the "people's party" hated all that people stuff when Labour first came to power.
Very old fashioned but saying "Spend a penny" for having a wee.
"Hubby" and "footie" also make me grit my teeth.
Using the word "cheers" instead of thanks or thank you.
Everytime Tony Blair says "look" I have violent feelings.
"Bottom burps", "parping", "trumping", in fact any euphamism for farting.
"Share with you" when you are being told something at work.
And bizarely "womb"!
Love this thread.

Dizzymummy · 08/04/2003 11:00

pronouncing sandwich as Sangwich (probably an irish thing!)

People you don't know calling you darling or sweetie

Bobbins · 08/04/2003 11:10

Don't like 'garage'.

Also I don't like it when I end up saying par cark instead of car park. That happened to me twice at the weekend and I think the people I was with thought I was drunk.

Ghosty · 08/04/2003 11:13

Some Kiwi words that get my goat ...
'Sweet as ...'
'Good as gold'
and 'hey' at the end of every sentence. Eg ... 'I watched this great film last night, hey. It was about this bloke, hey. He was being chased by the cops, hey.' AAAAAAGGHHHHH!

Ghosty · 08/04/2003 11:14

Bobbins, did you have your keyboard fixed then, hey?

rainbow · 08/04/2003 11:17

Most americanisms. They are chips not fries, crisps not chips, nappies not diapers and it's biscuit not cookie. A hood goes on your head not on the front of your car, but then again so does a bonnet and elephants have trunks not cars! but I suppose boots go on your feet, perhaps I had better leave it there before the men in white coats come to take me away!!

Meid · 08/04/2003 11:18

Bobbins, I am ALWAYS doing that. When I was at school we were reading Macbeth out loud and instead of saying MacDuff I said MadCuff. The whole of my class, including the teacher, creased up. That moment will live with me forever !

Bobbins · 08/04/2003 11:18

Ghosty> nah... I'm at work, which means I'm meant to be working.

My home keyboard is still kaput and funnily enough typingwithoutspacesmakesyoulookdrunktoo APPARENTLY.

How many offending words did I manage then...then?