Another one to go "grrr" about!

MadeinYorshire my DS1 (now 42) used to refer to it as Marks & Spensive too!

Shortlegs for some reason my tablet recently decided that when I typed "hedgerow" what I meant "bacteria"

Febury does it for me every time. Ugh!

apparently there’s a railway station (in Fife?) called Drem which was very exposed to wind chill.
School kids who had to wait for a train to school used to say in the Lord’s Prayer “lead us not into Drem station”.

I hate it when people say get 'off of' something, instead of just 'get off'!

'Return back' is one of my pet annoyances. I also dislike 'Try and get that hat' - nobody seems to ue the correct 'Try TO get that hat- surely if you 'Try and get' something it then a foregone conclusion that you have got whatever it is?

My favourite subtitling error was about ‘cabbages rolling along the Mall’. They meant ‘carriages’.

quizqueen

I hate it when people say get 'off of' something, instead of just 'get off'!

Hey you get off of my cloud....

Rosina

'Return back' is one of my pet annoyances. I also dislike 'Try and get that hat' - nobody seems to ue the correct 'Try TO get that hat- surely if you 'Try and get' something it then a foregone conclusion that you have got whatever it is?

That’s seriously pedantic! Congratulations ?

My GS doesn't want to live near the sea incase a satsuma comes in

And wipers for Ypres

lizzypopbottle Sun 20-Sep-20 10:23:09
Spangler I love finding out about the origins of our idiomatic phrases and sayings.
Me too, but I was shocked and amused the day that a catholic priest, of all people, explained the origin of the 'F' word profanity.

Grandma70s

My favourite subtitling error was about ‘cabbages rolling along the Mall’. They meant ‘carriages’.

a surreal Dahl-esque vision, of cabbages and kings.

I liked ‘fragment’ of imagination.

Carol54

My GS doesn't want to live near the sea incase a satsuma comes in

ditto the GUO, or Giant Unfriendly Orange, that might just roll up the beaches..

wise grandson sounds a very attenborough-like naturalist in the making, to be so aware of such phenomena. commendable.

I get unreasonably annoyed when I read that someone has gone into ‘rest bite‘ care ?

Oh Gransnetters thank you, you did make me laugh.
Lucca, pedant that I am Drem is in sunny East Lothian

MeemawtoD

Oh Gransnetters thank you, you did make me laugh.
Lucca, pedant that I am Drem is in sunny East Lothian

Of course it is silly me my Ex OH who told me about this was teaching in Haddington at the time

I’m bored with people saying ‘bored of’. Apparently both are in use with bored of being popular with young people and bored with used by those of us who were taught correctly. Also flinch every time someone says ‘myself’ instead of me or I. For example ‘myself and the wife’ ....a sentence wrong in so many ways.

I laughed at a subtitle when I saw the name Harry Kane used instead of hurricane in a storm report!

hicaz46 they also say (round here anyway) things like, "If yourself would just fill in this form..."

Hey you get off of my cloud....

Lucca

I'm missing something, what is gadarene swine?

Fine toothcomb.... I have both of a fine toothed comb and a toothbrush........... but Iv'e never combed my teeth.......
Decimating means cut BY a tenth, not cut TO a tenth

and what is the point of being re-directed momentarily, when i will wait for just a moment to be proprly re-directed.......

Dinning tables are often advertised on our local ‘buy and sell’ page.