[Closed] Phrases/terms that elevate the temperature of your urine.

[b]The[/b] hoi polloi
PIN [b]number[/b]

Grrr.

Cockpit!!!
When did a push bike ever have a ******** cockpit!!!

"Push bike".

I will now kill you.

Flaperon - I say "them" as in "look at them bananas", it's a northern thing, nowt to do with being thick!

I hate "slaw". "Coleslaw" uses up too much ink? It doesn't save any time, because of ****s like me who'll ask the waiter "wtf is slaw?"

"Different tact" is the one I always post in these threads. It's "different tack", tact just makes no sense in this context. Ironically, most people who use it, don't have any tact, let alone some other spare tact that would allow them to use different tact.

"Just saying like"

My dad, "I'm not being funny". Yes, we know.

"Can I get a medium skinny extra-hot hazelnut latte?" (Just get a flippin' coffee!!)
Pronouncing latte LAH-Te
Overuse of words like epic, epiphany, iconic, showcase
"Luxury apartment to rent" where luxury means one step up from hovel

Meeh?

"Luxury apartment to rent" where luxury means one step up from hovel

See also "Executive" - Used almost exclusively on mediocre coach companies for old biddy's day trips and dry cleaners.

BAU, business as usual.

There's some sensitive folks on here.

+1 for "Can i get"? Grow up.
"No problem".

"Are you with me?"

Thankfully not you illiterate oik.

Thankfully not, you illiterate oik.

I took the liberty of adding the required comma, you illiterate oik.

😉

I loved it the two times I have seen twits from England ask for a Latte in Italy and get served warm milk.

It does not mean a milky coffee in the language which you borrow to sound sophisticated at a crap Starbucks you numpties...

But I think some of these, trail dog etc are reasonable. Action as a verb is useful, and "medal" saves time versus "finish on the podium". I believe some grammar experts are now accepting less as well as fewer for countable nouns.

Meaningless interjections, like, you know, well, so I said to her, which add nothing but time, and I was, really, like really totes annoy me though... Oxygen thieves. Grrrrrrr...

Cheers Flashy 😳

My Mrs says imminent when she means eminent. I'm going to tell her one of these days, she'll enjoy that.

"My bad"

I know how it's used. I just don't understand how [s]them[/s] 😀 those two words put together make any sense.

Just lately I get irritated when someone agrees with something that someone on here has said by saying "xxxx has it." As though that's the end of the thread, no more discussion required.

My bad
Get in the sea
Netflix and chill
Bae

I loved it the two times I have seen twits from England ask for a Latte in Italy and get served warm milk.
It does not mean a milky coffee in the language which you borrow to sound sophisticated at a crap Starbucks you numpties...

Why would they get served warm milk when they just asked for milk. That is a strange mistake for a waiter to make in his own language.

If the writer wasn't good enough at his job to get an order for milk right, I don't think I would trust him to make a decent coffee anyway.

Sometimes when I catch myself asking 'whats the narrative around this?' at work I have to take myself in to a dark room and set about my head with a blunt object.

'Inhale' as in 'He was so hungry he just inhaled a banana'

'Banter' as in 'just having a wee bit of banter bruv'

'Chapeau!' - Eurggh. Ironic or not, makes me cringe every time.

quinoa
no matter how you want to pronounce it... don't

NG. In both cases the barman asked if they were sure, and then asked if they wanted it warm, but the twits didn't click.

So think you are blaming the wrong person here. I think it's a stupid misappropriation of someone else's language. Like cul de sac...

Bet you order lattes too... 😉

It's been said before, but the use of language like this allows bad coffee to be served to idiots at premium prices.

At a bar with an espresso machine there should only be a choice of 1) espresso/cafe/cafe solo.
2) Machiato/cortado/noisette
3) Capuccino
4) cafe au lait/con leche
In the standard volumes and costing between 1-2€ ... 😀

'Banter' as in 'just having a wee bit of banter bruv'

Following on from the London Olympics everything now has 'team' before it. It grates.

bae

Oh yes, I see this on my offspring's Facebook. I asked her why all her friends were obsessed with British Aerospace. She just doesn't realise how hilarious I am.

ticks all the right boxes

The bastard love child of consumerist conformism meets stating the ****ing obvious.

"Craick" or "Crack"..as in "what's the crack?" ....dunno, but i have the hookers if you have the...

I have several Cumbrian friends who say "Crack/Craick" lots... 😀

They also say "Bait" for lunch....
Nope, bait is what goes on the end of a fishing line.

Unchartered as in unchartered territory.

[quote=tenfoot ]"My bad"
I know how it's used. I just don't understand how [s]them [/s] those two words put together make any sense.Is disappoint.

'I was sat there' rather than 'I was sitting there'.

I am increasingly aggravated by people who repeatedly say "I am a reasonable person" in an high-pitched voice, while going scarlet in the face, 30 minutes into haranguing me about something no sane person would care about. But that's quite situation-pacific.

I'm digging out for a new patio if it helps.

"Your call is important to us"

aracer, you might find this interesting:

http://blog.dictionary.com/inflammable/

Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.

The overuse of the word 'narrative' by anybody from southern England when interviewed on radio 4.

Overheard the other day,

"So he turned around and said... so I turned around and said... so then she turned around and said..." I had a mental image of a group of people having a conversation whilst spinning on the spot. Maybe they were all on those little exercise turntable things.

Bae

The only time I've ever heard this is on Facebook reposts where people are complaining about it. What is it? Is it some sort of non-word off something intellectually bankrupt like TOWIE or something?

Lush

****ing word

The article on decimate seems a bit weak I have only read secondary sources for basic history but decimation being the word for the execution of 1/10 of a body of soldiers seems to have significant weight behind it and appears in primary sources such as Polybus . so the article suggesting that decimation has been retrospectively applied to the well attested Roman punishment seems wrong . To hold water surely the author would need to demonstrate the sources used a word other than decimato for the procedure.
I accept usage changes over time .

For those who work in IT, every word used in Agile. Not sure why it annoys me so much but it does

"Top of the hour" unless it's been said by Jessica Spunkmeyer on CNBCBNSDC

Any British broadcaster that says it should be sent to read the local news in North Dakota.

"Gifting". Where's that come from, as if I couldn't guess? Last week I saw a box of biscuits in a shop described as a "gifting pack".

Another one is "inbox me", no f&^% off - I will not.

Or people who pronounce "th" as "f". Anyfing, or Efan

"lay an egg on it".... WTF does it even [i]mean[/i]???

manvstarmac - Member
"Your call is important to us"

Ohh, this phrase irritates me no end. Coined by some CRM manager in deepest Tyneside on a day when it had been raining constantly for the previous 16 1/2. Thought of as a joke initially, then the person forgot to press 3 to re-record it then forgot, then went out on the Tarn for a few bevvies.
Industry standard created right there.

"Bevvies" - no, no the term you seek is Beer.
"Cold ones" (as in down a couple of) - cold what? poo? wee? cups of drain water?
"The train on platform..." - possibly one of the most depressing introductions to a sentence that brings up hackles on the back of my neck. The rest of the sentence could be good news, but invariably it isn't.

Reach out I'm happy with, when you don't know someone or intend to find out a link or contact you do indeed "reach out".

Thankfully, in my part of Shiny Town, all the silly management speak some of you lot spout out that annoys you isn't spoken "round these parts". I think you must work/interact with/for some above their station companies who quite possibly need their wings clipped.

Oh, and I cant stand being called 'mate' by someone I don't know.

Mate I can cope with, it's matey that winds me up. I'm not a pirate or a bottle of bubble bath thanks.

Fella

Natch, ace and many of the other annoying words people only seem to use when posting on STW. I never hear them in real life.

The misuse of reflexive pronouns, usually by salespeople. "Please do not hesitate to call myself". No, it's "me".

Arks. As in, "Can I just arks yourself a question?"

Kill. Kill. Kill.

My Mrs says imminent when she means eminent. I'm going to tell her one of these days, she'll enjoy that.

Coincidentally we had the expresso discussion last night. "is that like really fast coffee?"

monkeysfeet - Member

I have several Cumbrian friends who say "Crack/Craick" lots...

I say "grand" a lot and I get really selfconscious about it when talking to irish people, like they're going to accuse me of racism. Or put a bomb under my car.

See irish people, that's what anti-irishness looks like! Not just innocently saying "grand".

"Crack/Craick"

It's "craic" I believe.

lodious - Member

The overuse of the word 'narrative' by anybody from southern England when interviewed on radio 4.

Ah, yes. [i]We need to have a conversation about[/i] narrative.

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"The traffic is coping well ......." on the radio traffic news

The one I'm finding most annoying at the moment is "going forward," largely because I've started saying it myself. It's a ridiculous phrase; what else are we going to do, change the past?

Gifted.

i.e. for e.g.

Epicentre, when nothing is happening underground.

Grammar Nazi.

"scotrail* apologises for any inconvenience caused" by the fact that despite doing this every day for about 200 years we still can't get the fn train to it's destination on time

This has become meaningless trite even worse on Twitter.

*insert transport provider of your choosing

Overheard the other day,

"So he turned around and said... so I turned around and said... so then she turned around and said..." I had a mental image of a group of people having a conversation whilst spinning on the spot. Maybe they were all on those little exercise turntable things.

Was it at the Dervish Convention by any chance?

Cougar - Moderator

The one I'm finding most annoying at the moment is "going forward," largely because I've started saying it myself.

Aaargh. My old boss used it as code for "I will now ignore everything you just said". ie, why did this process fail? We'd spend an hour talking about it, figure out the issues then she'd say "going forward" and we'd do the exact same thing again.

Probably on here already but never mind

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[quote=surroundedbyhills spake unto the masses, saying]" apologises for any inconvenience caused"

This plus a zillion. What it actually means is "**** you and your expectations".

"future planning"

As opposed to what? Perhaps I should relax a bit about unnecessary words. When I'm dead.

'Sound as a pound'

'Aww MINT, mint...'

'Aaww LAD, laaad'

In fact most trending 'blokey-lad-mate' phrases tend to irritate.

"Banter".

See also "bants", "bantz".

It's a bit like "conversation" only for complete and utter morons.

Wild swimming

Or, as we used to call it, swimming.

Journey

FFS. Unless you actually are going overland to Indo China.

In fact most trending 'blokey-lad-mate' phrases tend to irritate.

Most blokey "lads" irritate, to be fair. Seems to be an excuse for misogynistic comments and generally being a monumental self-important bellend at complete strangers.

Oh and when did every man and his dog start "curating"?

Misuse of the word hero.

A selfless act of courage, not to be confused with making it into work in the rain.

Putting "ists" on the end of words where it doesn't belong e.g dog walkerists.
Being called Bud by people I don't know.

Being called Bud by people I don't know

Are you a Paisley-ist, Bud?

[url= http://www.paisley.org.uk/2008/09/what-is-a-paisley-buddy/ ]http://www.paisley.org.uk/2008/09/what-is-a-paisley-buddy/[/url]

Epicentre, when nothing is happening underground.

OK, this and decimate...Hold onto your hats grammar nazis, it's perfectly OK for words that have a specific scientific meaning to be used for something else when used in normal conversation, every-one knows what epicentre can refer to, and it in no way reduces or changes the meaning of the word in science...

Chill.

Edit, actually, if you self-redact that much on a language as malleable as English so that when it comes to narrowly defined words such as epicentre...You have my sympathy, the plays of Shakespeare (and indeed most literature) must be lost to you.

The train ones have reminded me: "We are now arriving into..."
This just sounds all wrong.

It is wrong, unless it's a posh bloke talking dirty to his missus.

"Roadmap"

Unless referring to a map with roads on it.

Momentarily, used to mean soon, when it means for a very short time.

"We will be landing momentarily "

No we won't, you ignoramus, we will be staying on the ground for at least long enough to get everyone off, refuel, and get the next lot on board.

momentarily
?m??m(?)nt(?)r?li,?m??m(?)n?t?r?li/Submit
adverb
1.
for a very short time.
"as he passed Jenny's door, he paused momentarily"
synonyms: briefly, temporarily, fleetingly, for a moment, for a second, for an instant, for a minute, for a little while
"as he passed her door, he paused momentarily"
2.
NORTH AMERICAN
at any moment; very soon.
"my husband will be here to pick me up momentarily"
synonyms: (very) soon, in a minute, in a second, in a trice, in a flash, shortly, any minute, any minute now, in a short time, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, in (less than) no time, in no time at all, before you know it, before long.

Momentarily, used to mean soon, when it means for a very short time.

Isn't that another Americanism? Ie, it means different things either side of the [s]pond[/s] Atlantic.

EDIT - what he said.

the term ‘glass’ that amateur photographers tend to use instead of calling a lens a lens. guess it’s an americanism but wherever it comes from it BMP.
not a fan of bokeh either but it’s a real word with a Japanese origin so i tolerate it. we managed without it for a long time and now it has caused an obsession with bokeh instead of just making images.
“hey look at my lovely bokeh this sweet new piece of glass renders so well”

your cat pic BMP.