What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

@Paul Turner, do you work in HR by chance? You keep saying the stuff I hear from the HR team at my office.

 

Here's another one that irks me; "We're pregnant." For a couple to say they are expecting is fine, since both members of the couple are. But trust an old science teacher. Only one of them is pregnant.

 

I found this today on my facebook page, and thought you might like it.

 

I think I just wet myself laughing!

 

There is a special case, "most funnerest."

 

A traffic reporter saying "we have 'pockets' of traffic". A weather reporter saying "There are 'pockets' of cold air coming in". Pockets? When I put my hand in my pocket, I don't feel a car or cold air. Y'know?????????

 

No, I don't, but it's easy to imagine these things being said at work.

 

"Make no mistake...." "at the end of the day...."

 

" Actually..." "No yes.."

 

"My bad.."

 

http://www.grammarerrors.com/word-choice/chester-drawerschest-of-drawers/

 

That is too funny

 

aahhhh yes.....,"at the end of the day". That one can be replaced with "in the end", "in the final analysis"....I mean, at the end of the day I go to bed.

 

who is this Chet Drawers fella, anyway?????

 

I don't know...I can't put "eloquent" and "rigged" in the same thought.

 

I'm not sure if I mentioned this before and I'm too lazy to look:

lie-berry for lie-BRary
fuss-tray-ted or fuss-TER-ated for FRUS-trated.

 

On the latter, it's always hard for me to figure out if it's that or "fLuss-trayted".

 

Dunno if it's been mentioned before, but the omission of double-t's?

Mitten, kitten and so forth

 

you mean when someone pronounces those words "mit-ten" "kit-ten"?

 

Yes. They become mi'en and ki'en. Also happens in a lot of other words with t's.