Single words that make you cringe helplessly

[blue and white army]

Lush and banter, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[brightonlass2009]

coinkydink o_0

 

[Paddy B]

Oh and the very clever(!) journalists who when have to come up with ridiculous conjoined names for celebrity couples and shorten other names such as:-

Brangelina, Jedward, SuBo, LiLo etc

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Meh! - An Americanised concoction used by feeble minded geeks.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Oh and the very clever(!) journalists who when have to come up with ridiculous conjoined names for celebrity couples and shorten other names such as:-

Brangelina, Jedward, SuBo, LiLo etc

I like the one for Charlotte (Church) and Gav (Henson) - CHAV

 

[LeicesterGull]

leverage - as in 'leverage the opportunity'.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

In my younger days I dreaded the word "Late" but only if preceeded by the word "I'm"!

 

[tottenhamseagull]

In my younger days I dreaded the word "Late" but only if preceeded by the word "I'm"!

Thats bad nowadays when the missus turns to you and goes "I'm Late...... on" argghhhhh!!

 

[Biscuit]

'Hero' when people mean 'Soldier'.

Soldiers are mostly honorable, dutiful, necessary and appreciated.

There is a difference between defending our own shores and pushing our values on other nations. Whats heroic about forcing our views on to others through the use of violence?

There are no heroes in war.

 

[Norman Potting]

I'm with you on that one. Also hate it when couples call each other 'baby'

Reminds me of one of Harry Hill's older jokes - "I call my wife Hun, she's from Germany".

"Attitude" gets me, as so rightly referred to on TV (Arthur Smith I believe), "the Spice Girls have attitude, you mean they are rude and shout a lot". However the one that gets me the worst is much beloved of policticians of all colours, not sure how it is spelt but it comes out of their lying mouths as "weirgunna". I think they are trying to say "we are going to".

Straying a bit off topic, shops that advertise "Cheaper prices" or "Where quality is cheaper" get me. Haven't plucked up courage to go in and asked them for a pound of prices and a couple of qualitys.

.............And relax.

 

[cannedheat]

Diss or Dissing, words used by utter pricks,

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Okay, I know it's not a single word, but the way some Australians end a sentence with a question really gets my goat, as in, "What are you doing next year?" "I'm going to uni?" Why? You're the one giving the answer. Not intending to tar all Aussies with the same brush, tedebear, but it's just a particular habit of some of your countrymen/women.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

The other thing I can't stand is text speak in normal writing. Sorry if that makes me a boring old you-know-what, but I was brought up to use the English language properly. Spelling and grammar mistakes don't worry me; we all make them and I myself am dyslexic, but using 'u' instead of 'you' strikes me as downright lazy. Keep it for phone messages.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

innit

That'll be me completely f***ed then, innit.

I've never liked the term "shagging", by the way. It makes sex sound about as exciting as a slice of burnt white medium sliced'.

 

[SussexHoop]

Burgelry.

 

[clapham_gull]

'Dead'

As in 'dead tired' or 'dead sexy'. Is that a northern colloquialism?

No, it's a very old way of expressing an extreme.

As is the "dead of the night", "dead on time", "dead of winter".. etc..

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Oh no, I agree with the usage in those cases, but it doesn't make sense for the examples I highlighted and it seems very northern..! Notice that you have prepositions in there.

 

[clapham_gull]

...seems very northern

, they've got electricity up there and everything these days.

What about dead jolly good bloke ? Sounds more Surrey than Sunderland.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I guess that helps when it comes to counting all the children at bedtime.

 

[Willow]

I bet I hate 'literally' more than you hate 'basically'.

add 'absolutely' and you have a triumvirate of annoyance.