Latest irritants

[tametiger]

Must get these off my chest:
People who insist on pronouncing the final 'g' in 'ing' words - as in sin-G-in-G.
The trend for turning nouns into verbs - torching, mothballing etc.
Why is everyone talking about 'anytime soon'? What's wrong with 'soon' or 'in the near future'?
Phew!

Weather announcers who all talk about 'some decent sunny spells.' Wonder what indecent sunny spells are like. Hot?
What about the 'insecure shed' mentioned in our local paper? Or 'this door is alarmed' in my workplace? Since when did sheds and doors have emotions?

The use of the word super where you would usually use the word very.

He is super tall.

I was super happy.

Those jeans are super cool.

STOP IT IT IS AWFUL

YES GetOrf.

That makes me super murderous.

Where did it come from tethers.

WHERE?

It is all over the bloody place within the last 6 months.

I know!

One minute it was confined to the Boston area of the USA.

The next minute it's IN YOUR EARS.

I've lost friends over it.

Yes - it is the kind of thing I imagine very monied WASP americans to say.

Not youngsters in the UK with west country accents

PLEASE can we have a Mumsnet dictionary/spellchecker? If I have to read 'appauled/appauling' one more time I might have to resort to violence.

"DS is balling his eyes out."

I imagine the child having at his eyes with a melon baller.

Personally, I'm getting quite perturbed at the way 'getting involved' seems to be creeping into common usage.

It just sounds bloody ridiculous.

Forgive the intrusion ladies - usually just a lurker on this delightful topic but a dyed in the wool pedant.

Euphemia, is it not bawling? I use it all the time!

Why do I keep seeing 'chest of draws' being advertised everywhere? Is this a new abomination?

Just realised I might have misunderstood, Euphemia, and you were referring to it being incorrectly spelled?

Sorry if so (creeps back into hidey-hole...)

Of course it's bawling- I imagine Euphemia is saying she is apauled by the misspelling

Yes it's bawling, which is why balling gets my goat.

Whilst I too personally hate sinGinG and spend most of my time correcting ds through gritted teeth, it is actually a regional thing....most people brought up round here will say it like that.

Is it alright to say someone or something is 'all right' when you mean OK or well. See it everywhere. There was a movie called The Kids Are All Right. Is this a reference to their political leanings?
A local estate agent told me 'more people are choosing to let (homes)..' when she was talking about the tenant, not the landlord.

"arksed" instead of "asked"; "I arksed him if he wanted to come round....".
Also
"he turned round and said....then she turned round and went to me, like, whatever..."
Surely all that spinning should make the conversants quite dizzy.
Also
The use of "like" as a conversational filler word (as above)
Don't get me started on "versing", the vein in my forehead is already throbbing

I was taught at school that it should be written 'all right', two separate words. But now it seems usual way to write it is as one, 'alright'. Don't know how I feel about this yet. Been several years, I know, but I'm still in two minds about it.

It's just good to know that someone else has noticed. I was beginning to think my memory was playing tricks on me.

Oh joy, I can be all judgy in company.

"Haitch" instead of "Aitch"

"Loose" instead of "Lose"

and the Antipodean lilt at the end of every sentence?