Annoying words that people use

Not a word but when people go 'ohhhhhhhhhh', i'm refering to one time when there was a mum and her two teenage chav daughters on the bus playing the worst music sung by someone on helium. I asked them to turn it down and all they can say is 'ohhhhhhhh' in the most annoying voice.
 
Scuzi said:
The Irish bit
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But that's local dialect. She's a faux southerner, one of those borderline northerners that move south and sound southern until they say 'bath' or 'one'. I'm fairly sure it's only those two words that remain. She'd be living in London if it wasn't for her job, she's one of them.
 
ElvisFan said:
The absolute WORST one EVER, is the use of "Yeah?" at the end of a sentence. It's even worse when a boss uses it to enforce their opinion. It doesn't work with me because they keep repeating "Yeah?" while nodding their heads. Meanwhile I just stare blankly at them.
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That seems to be a phrase used mostly amongst British negros. I had forgotten about that one. That black girl on 'The Apprentice' says it a lot. For a supposed professional, saying "..., yeah?" at the end of every sentence doesn't do much for her professional image.
 
I really can't stand 'chat' and 'banter' e.g. 'yeah, she's got good chat' or 'I just love the banter!' I hear this far far too often!
 
Scuzi said:
"Lush". If you say it to me I will kill you.
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Agreed. There are lots of other words which I find annoying, but there is nothing quite like this one. Whenever I hear someone use that word it has the same effect on me as someone running their nails along a blackboard.
 
Scuzi said:
You'd love the majority of people from my town then. Every sentence is finished with, "So I did" or "So it is" or "So I was" etc...

Example:
"I seen you yesterday up the town so I did, you were talkin to big Gerry so ye were. What's the craic with him anyway?"

"He's just out of hospital so he is, next time I'm talking to him I'll tell her you were askin about him so I will"

"No baw, I have to shoot on here so I do, I'll get talking to you later so I will"

"Bye so"

:D
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Guilty of that, although not as bad as that example. :o

Can't think of many things that people say that annoy me but when reading it's always when people say "brought" instead of "bought".

Oh look what I just brought.

Where did you bring it?

Agh!!!!!!!!! :mad:
 
"know what i'm saaaaaaaaaaaying?" after every sentence.

Normally american black actors, fortunately I don't have face to face conversations with many american black actors:p
 
Tim said:
"know what i'm saaaaaaaaaaaying?" after every sentence.

Normally american black actors, fortunately I don't have face to face conversations with many american black actors:p
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I remember listening to a DVD commentary by white English director Adrian Lyne a while back, and he said that all the way through ;(
 
'Lovely' - I just hate that word and how people use it. Horrible.

People that don't use there, their and they're correctly (in written form, obviously). 'could have' is a another one - it's 'could have'!

I don't tend to mind things (or at least, not as much) that are an element of a person's dialect. But when it's just silly stuff, it does get on my nerves far more. I don't have much time for people that don't have at least decent English skills, and being in second year at Uni, it's disgraceful just how many people seem to have a lacklustre grasp of the English language.

I have noticed that I say 'like' a lot myself, which is annoying. Not sure who I've picked that up fro, but I'm consciously trying to stop it.
 
dirtydog said:
Do you mean when people use it superfluously at the end of a sentence?

Or when people use it instead of isn't it. The latter is fine with me.
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Both are awful.

My gf used to have the 'black' trait of pronouncing 'seen' as 'sin'. Like "nah, I haven't sin that".

We soon put a stop to that!! Hah!
 
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