Little things which really annoy!

In linguistics, a word that is heavily overused is said to become an 'empty' word.' Amazing' is an obvious example.

Really, very, completely, or totally unique is annoying.

It's not a new novelty Theexwife!

In some cases tautology irritates me e.g., added bonus, and also, very rare, to name a few.

I don't know why they do as I’m not that proficient in grammar.

Germanshepherdsmum

I’ve never heard of that one, thank goodness.

I don’t mind ‘passed away’ but can’t stand ‘passed’. Passed what? The bus stop!

Me neither GSM. When the time comes I'm going to die. I'm not going to pass away, pass on, or pass !

I’ve never heard of that one, thank goodness.

I don’t mind ‘passed away’ but can’t stand ‘passed’. Passed what? The bus stop!

Witzend

*wheniwasyourage*, people pronouncing Bach as Bark make me want to slap them!

Thought of another one. Why does a preview always have to be described as "sneak"? if someone is giving you a preview of something they are doing or making, they are allowing you to have it, so no sneaking is involved.

At the moment, the expression "unalived" or "unalive" is driving me mad. I hated passed away too. Dead is Dead. I don't understand why its so triggering. LOL I can just about take passed on to a better place but even that is only because these people tend to believe in God or something similar.

If its an accident or an attack of some sort "did not/failed to survive" would be acceptable to me at least.

Once in N Wales, a chap, I think who was from Liverpool asked for directions to ‘Egglesbatch’. Luckily I knew he meant Eglwysbach. A good approximation but it still makes me laugh.

wheniwasyourage, people pronouncing Bach as Bark make me want to slap them!

I’m in an off and on little band. One guitarist, when discussing what we are doing with a song, refers to me as ‘she’, as in “Then she will come in third bar” etc and I’m standing next to him. I wish he would use my name, it sounds rude and I have said
“Who is she, the cat’s mother?”

Not saying please and thank you is generally a cultural thing.
Some years ago I socialised with South Africans and Zimbabweans.
It was very noticeable that non of them said please or thank you to the barmaids.
I asked them why. Their answer was that the bar staff were only doing their job, why should I thank them.
To be fair, when they knew they were upsetting the bar staff they changed. If they forgot the bar staff would say and what’s the word

It was the same when I lived in Bulgaria.

Marydoll

It's loch*s*

That's even more difficult!

You are forgiven! 🤣

Thank you MD it must be all about the pronunciation then.

I’m guilty of saying what sounds like ‘locks’

Sigh…..

It's lochs

So what’s the plural of Loch?

Do I visit 3 Scottish Lochs

Or 3 Scottish Loch?

I understand the pronunciation, I won’t do it now as I’ve just had breakfast…..

fourormore

Not the same as mispronunciations and perhaps not relevant on this thread but I really get irritated when contestants on various television programmes fail to say 'Please' or 'Thank you' Even when at the end they are told they have won hundreds or thousands of pounds there is often not even a 'thank you'
It doesn't even 'sound correct' to us oldies especially when we have brought up children and grandchildren to add those two simple words automatically!
A recent episode of celebrity Tipping Point featured Colin Jackson and on one occasion only did he say please! The other two contestants (Lisa Riley and Phil Tufnell) were great.
Why does a silly thing like that irritate so much???
More relevant to this thread is that we have relatives who live on the Isles of Scilly NOT the Scilly Isles!

I do agree with you about contestants with missing manners. I always hope that the rude ones on Only Connect don’t win!

Thank you for the information about the correct name for the Isles of Scilly. I wish people would stop referring to the Orkneys/ Shetlands. It should be Orkney/Shetland or the Orkney Islands/Shetland Islands.

The use of 'mayo' instead of mayonnaise.

'Can I get' is awful. I cringe every time I hear it.
Also I dislike it when I ask how someone is and the answer is, 'Good'. My dear late Dad would say, ' I'm glad you're good but how are you feeling?'

"Can I get" is pretty grim too, Georgesgran

There’s a new ad where at the end the girl says ‘can I get a pina colada’. Every time the fact that there’s no ‘please’ afterwards really annoys me.

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He's the one with Scottish ancestry!

Och, loch! I hope Mr C wasn't too traumatised by the research.

Elegran

Callistemon21 Clearly the public performance was a bit premature. more private rehearsal needed. Try a bit less hawking and add a light touch of gargling.

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By Jove, I think I've got it!!

It it a bit like Och Aye The Noo - everyone knows how to pronounce that?