What Phrases or Words Irritate You?

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.

Sent from my LGLS775 using Tapatalk

 

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?

 

Using except in place of accept

 

Well, you got me on THAT! I sit corrected.

 

HERM

 

y'know, here in metro Boston, "grammar sound" like "gramma" or to be more pacific...."grandma".

 

That's a difficult one to read.

 

Where does ax-cept fit in?

 

"Can I ax you if you axcept credit cards?"

HERM

 

Thx. That clears it up. I'm glad I axed.

 

There's another word that gets me...."axe murderer". You'd think it refers to the killing of axes, but I guess it refers to killing ANYTHING.

 

right-"ain't got no" does look like "I got some".

 

Well, you know what they say, a good ax deserves an honest answer.

 

Which reminds me of another peeve a la' Richard Rawlings ("Fast 'n' Loud")... "Git me/ya some." Makes me want to yell at the TV.