Annoys the pants off
 

OK..

What annoys the pants off you with respect to what people SAY.

As I said in a previous thread....The mispronounciation of Hypothermia really gets my goat. THey are always saying Hyperthermia....which is the complete opposite, of course. An increase in body core temperature.

Maybe it's because I am in the medical profession.....

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It really annoys me when people say 'I have the Internet' when what they really mean is 'I have Internet access'.

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anyone being excessively verbose in order to sound authoritative, e.g.

'We are unable to ascertain the cause of death at this point in time,' instead of 'We can't yet tell how he died.' Does police school train recruits out of the art of speaking clearly?

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Not sure if this is just a northern thing but when folks ring through at work and say "yeah what it is right love" :blah: I can feel myself cringing

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LOTS of things I'm afraid !! .... far too many to list in fact, but then I am a bit of a pedant when it comes to correct usage of words, grammar, punctuation and spelling.

A typical gaff is when people say or write for example "them computers" instead of "those computers" or the classic use of their, they're and there etc., etc.

:rolleyes:

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Ha ha. I know what you mean...

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when someone says "can I lend a fiver" when they mean "can I borrow a fiver"

- oh & the answer is no, either way.;)

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it is a northern thing :erm:


that's a northern thing too :p

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When companies I speak to ask about my 'partner' :grind:

My perfect response is "Business or dancing?".

Or when you you call a garage or motor factors to price something up and they say something like "It's £50 plus VAT". WELL WHY DON'T THEY JUST TELL ME HOW MUCH IT IS *INCLUDING* VAT??????? A good way of annoying them back is saying you'll buy the said product and you'll be down for it in half and hour plus 15 minutes. :)

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Northern term of endearment

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yeah calling someone love is....but why to a high proportion of northern men say "erm what is it?" why why why?

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Being called mate, duck, chuck or c0ck when someone calls me on the telephone at work.

I don't know you, did you hear me quack/c0ckadoodle and again you don't know me :)

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Not all of us say that

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When people say, can I borrow a ciggy off you.

Sure not a problem, just give me the butt and ash back when your finished!

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true........but i have meet a lot of northern men that do :erm:

:rofl: