Words / phrases that annoy you

"can I ask you a question?"

"At the end of the day....."

Starting a sentence off with "Basically". To explain something complicated or long.
 
Sorry if I upset any SJWs with this one, but one that always irks me is "rape survivor", well duh every rape victim is a survivor because the alternative is being a murder victim who was sexually assaulted.
 
Ohh I remembered another one.

People that say "somethink" like it's a real word....

I can forgive if it's coming from someone who just talks like that (I.e "alright mate, I fink I've got sumfink you might like"), but when I hear people like Gordon Ramsay CONSTANTLY using it, in serious conversations, it makes me scream inside.
 
ubersonic said:
Sorry if I upset any SJWs with this one, but one that always irks me is "rape survivor", well duh every rape victim is a survivor because the alternative is being a murder victim who was sexually assaulted.
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I agree with your sentiment but I don't think I've ever seen that phrasing.
 
Sliver said:
Maybe but they said it all the time to everyone when speaking to them to English. Besides, I'm not a Geordie and don't have a Geordie accent. Another phrase one Portuguese woman who worked in our bar was 'Of course my horse'. Always made me smile.
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I did hear an explanation for this. Apparently the cafe owners ask their English patrons what greeting they should say to their guests. You can imagine what happens next. I have heard that someone heard "**** off you ********" all delivered with a broad smile on his face.
 
People who use brought when they mean bought. Seems to be the further south you go the more likely people are to use brought.
 
"UK". Can't stand this phrase because everyone today wrongly uses it to refer to GB, or a single country in GB (ie England), when in fact the UK is just the governing state of GB and NI.
 
stopper said:
"UK". Can't stand this phrase because everyone today wrongly uses it to refer to GB, or a single country in GB (ie England), when in fact the UK is just the governing state of GB and NI.
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What about when people are using it to refer to the UK?
 
WYNIR0 said:
' can I get' used in restaurants and coffeshops. Do you really want to get it yourself?
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OMG, a thousand times this - I utterly hate it. Horrid Americanism imported from TV dross like 'Friends' or 'Frasier'. I heard somebody say this in my local chippy recently and I swear my fists clenched. What the hell is wrong with the standard English "Could I have ..."?

Business-speak winds me up too - I have a boss who is extremely fond of it ... I'm sure he thinks it sounds flash, but to the rest of us he just sounds pretentious. We played Buzzword Bingo once and he got the right hump when he found out, but he still does it to this day.

That said, I confess I have been known to use words like 'ergo' when the conversation is getting a bit heated and I'm trying to make a point, especially if I want to emphasise to the person I'm talking to that they are being particularly slow on the uptake :o
 
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