What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

It bugs me when someone says, "I take responsibility for my actions, even when things go wrong." It's so much more eloquent to say "the system is rigged" or "you're wrong."

 

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

 

Thank you. One simply can't take anything for granite these days.

 

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.

 

Yup.
'Round here, the capital of New Jersey is "Tre'on."

 

wow, what did the first N do to anyone? Give that letter some respect and pronounce the capital "Tren'n".

 

A'ight. I don't hear it at all where I live, but when I lived over near Detroit, that word was used a lot. Along with aks, and just poor grammer, and crappy English.

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No takers? That settles it-See ya later "in the final analysis" (lol).

 

Umm ... that is normal English ... British maybe?

A pocket is a cluster of something that's different from it's surroundings. Don't know if it's regularly used in that context in the USA though.

 

Using "shall we say" in about every sentence.

Though I have a great colleague who does exactly that, so it can't be all bad

 

Shall we say that he's an exception?

(@Eeyore ... edit: Laten we zeggen dat hij een uitzondering is? )

 

All right, I'll except that description of "pocket", but it leads me to ask, if that is what it has always meant, why have people just begun to pick up on it now?