What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

A mistaken order to diffuse the bombs, if obeyed correctly could have awkward consequences...

 

But, they'd smell nice....

 

I'd love to have an updated book on slang origins.

 

Not necessarily....

 

Tritonite cologne!

 

My mom hates it when people say tin foil. She corrected me years ago informing me that tin foil hasn't been sold for decades. It's aluminum foil.


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The same applies to "tin cans".

 

Most old timers still call it that where I live. I do too most of the time, I think. I am not an old timer yet, but I have spent enough time cooking around them that it has certainly rubbed off. It seems it is maybe a colloquialism, at least in my area, nearly everyone calls it tin foil. I guess we all know that it is aluminum.....

 

Lots of old timers around here still refer to a refrigerator as an icebox. And some of the generation after them use the brand name Frigidaire for all brands of refrigerators.

 

For 28 of my 32 years as a teacher, I wrote on green chalkboards. Yet, I persisted in calling them "blackboards."

 

Xmas

 

"That'll do me" when the customer is done ordering food.

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Love the Avatar. Very funny.

 

In other words, it's hard to have a battle of wits with someone who is unarmed.

 

...or half-armed.

 

Dubbing. Silly word, silly thing to do.

 

There must be a context or meaning you are referring to?

 

Sorry, I. Think it's called "Dabbing". It's a silly pose that kids and some people do. It's being worked into kids conversations. Also, Paul Ryan's son did it as Paul Ryan was being sworn in.

 

what did Ryan's son say-"There goes Dad, dabbing again"??

 

Guilty! My shorthand in inter-office emails, usually only during the crazy months of November & December.

However, X does represent 'Christ' so although I understand not everyone is keen on the usage—especially in promotions ("Join us for our Xmas Service!"), I don't have any qualms about its use in certain circumstances.

Here's an online explanation behind the X in Xmas (for those unfamiliar with the origin):

"Christos is the New Testament Greek for Christ. The first letter of the Greek word Christos is transliterated into our alphabet as an X. That X has come through church history to be a shorthand symbol for the name of Christ. We don’t see people protesting the use of the Greek letter theta, which is an O with a line across the middle. We use that as a shorthand abbreviation for God because it is the first letter of the word Theos, the Greek word for God.

The idea of X as an abbreviation for the name of Christ came into use in our culture with no intent to show any disrespect for Jesus. The church has used the symbol of the fish historically because it is an acronym. Fish in Greek (ichthus) involved the use of the first letters for the Greek phrase “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” So the early Christians would take the first letter of those words and put those letters together to spell the Greek word for fish. That’s how the symbol of the fish became the universal symbol of Christendom. There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect."