What words / phrases don't you like?

Ayahuasca said:
Those both seem incredibly pedantic.
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Tbf, 90% of what people are commenting on is 'incredibly pedantic', my own included. I guess it doesn't mean it can't really wind you up though.

Ormy1 said:
Type "could_of" with a space instead of an underscore, watch it appear as "could have" when you hit post.
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could have...

**EDIT** My guy is right, hence why I've edited this post!
 
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SourChipmunk said:
"Hack": overused as some kind of attention-getter when demonstrating a clever method of performing an everyday action. That is definitely not how that word was intended to be used. They have managed to deface the slang which it already was from back in the '80s when it meant breaking into a computer system.
Further on that, when a Facebook user states "my account has been hacked". No, it hasn't. Someone just created a new account using your name and started inviting all your friends in an effort to establish trust so they can eventually beg for money or phish information from them.
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That's a good one. Everything nowadays is a clever "hack". Anything that saves a bit of time doing daily activities is a "life hack".
"OMG guys I came up with this hack to get on OCUK faster, I made this little video showing you how to add it your browser favourites bar!!"

jaybee said:
Unless I've misunderstood, you are saying some people refer to online gambling as online gaming? I doubt that.
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It does happen sometimes, I've seen job adverts referring to 'gaming' when they are actually online casinos. Essentially where there is gamification of gambling.

Haggisman said:
"Search up" - no. It's "look up", or "search for", get it right or cut your tongue out so we don't have to listen to your stupidity you braindead inbred fwit.
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My son uses "search it up" sometimes and I'm hoping he's not inbred, but he does need to snap out of it.

Personally I dislike:
  • "grinds my gears"
  • "the feels" (as in "this really gets me in the feels", "all the feels" etc)
  • "rail replacement bus service" (surely the most depressing four-word phrase in the English language, notwithstanding the fact that I'm pretty sure the actual rails haven't been replaced with buses, although that could make the next trip more exciting)
  • "hot" in relation to someone being attractive. The ship has sailed on this one but it felt like some Americanism that gained traction here in the noughties or perhaps 90s. I'm accepting of it now but I tend to hold grudges over this sort of thing... :)
  • "where's that to?" (I think this is a regional thing, it confused me a lot when I first heard it).
  • "WiFi" when used inappropriately to mean an internet connection.
  • "Out of office is ON!" as some sort of elaborate way of letting the world know that you are going on holiday. They never seem to report "Out of office is OFF!" when they return to work so I assume they remain on holiday indefinitely.
  • "Cheeky" inserted in front of everything in an attempt to make it sound rock-and-roll. "Hey guys, I'm just going for a cheeky dump. Must be that cheeky burrito I had for lunch. Might have have a cheeky **** whilst I'm there. You up for a cheeky pint after work?". I say this as someone who wanders the kitchen of an afternoon muttering "cheeky vodka and coke, don't mind if I do" to myself so I'm a hypocrite.
 
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A little one that grinds my gears (sorry @HangTime ;)) is when people say "10am this morning" or "7pm last night".

You don't need to say the period of the day (morning / night) as you've already mentioned AM or PM.
 
Saying am/pm instead of using the 24 hour clock.
People saying 12pm when they mean midnight and 12am when they mean midday.
People saying GMT when they mean London time or BST.
People saying EST when they mean New York time, or EDT, or ET.
 
Oh, anyone that talks about energy deserves a slap.

"I was just matching their energy"

"Oh hes got that big **** energy"

You sound like an absolute tool. Stop it.
 
“The customer is always right” said by customers who aren’t right. For example wanting to refund a swimming costume. Had the hygiene tape removed and skid marks on gusset..

“sick” when something is good.
 
Yaayuh! said:
A little one that grinds my gears (sorry @HangTime ;)) is when people say "10am this morning" or "7pm last night".

You don't need to say the period of the day (morning / night) as you've already mentioned AM or PM.
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"this morning" and "last night" might be used to indicate the day. If you just say 10am or 7pm, they might not know what day you are referring to. Consider we are speaking at 9pm tonight, and you want to tell me about something that happened at 7pm last night. You can't just say "at 7pm" because I might assume you meant 2hrs ago, not 26hrs ago.
 
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HangTime said:
"this morning" and "last night" might be used to indicate the day. If you just say 10am or 7pm, they might not know what day you are referring to. Consider we are speaking at 9pm tonight, and you want to tell me about something that happened at 7pm last night. You can't just say "at 7pm" because I might assume you meant 2hrs ago, not 26hrs ago.
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7 o'clock last night or 7pm yesterday would suffice.
 
arent these all just Americanisms that have infiltrated the common UK vernacular?

most kids under 15 predominantly watch Americans on YouTube either unboxing something or playing a video game and an example of the more annoying ones:

Zee (rather than Z, thats the worst crime for me)
"right now" as in "im so hungry/im so tired/im so mad right now"
"roasted" i was initially alarmed at this but it just means you've been "owned" which means something like youve lost, said far too frequently and for virtually anything.
"three time" rather than a triple world champion

at work i get a lot of "can I wait on you for that" which perplexes me, "it is what it is" is heard once a day at least and the worst ones are "happy place" and "living his/her/my/your best life" is various tedious supposedly joyous things, IE the dog found a tennis ball on his morning walk (that was this mornings one from a woman at work who im sure you'd all be happy to shoot shortly after meeting her)
 
Yaayuh! said:
A little one that grinds my gears (sorry @HangTime ;)) is when people say "10am this morning" or "7pm last night".

You don't need to say the period of the day (morning / night) as you've already mentioned AM or PM.
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Well... do you know how many 10am's there have been... and will be... if you don't say 'this morning' it could have been any of them. 'in the morning' is different, but not specifying which 10am. That's valid.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Well... do you know how many 10am's there have been... and will be... if you don't say 'this morning' it could have been any of them. 'in the morning' is different, but not specifying which 10am. That's valid.
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Of course.

"10am yesterday"
"10 o'clock Tuesday morning"
"10am Tuesday"

Not "10am Tuesday morning".
 
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