Words you’re currently sick of seeing misused

ansdellmafia said:
As already stated - loose instead of lose , what's that all about . And maybe not a word as such , people using ect instead of etc . It's short for et cetera obviously .
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Could texting language be the fault for all this poor spelling we see these days?
 
Calling everything science, even things that are hotly contested or not being looked at in the round.
 
20togo said:
it's definIte not definAte.

That said the older I get the more spelling mistakes or getting the word wrong eg their, there, I'm making and I'm having to quickly edit much more than I used to. Used to be pretty much spot on a few years back.
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20’s these days I often find myself wanting to use a word in a written sentence on here or in an email and then getting frustrated when I suddenly realise I can’t get the spelling correct so then I have to find an alternative which is not always straight forward.Sometimes I completely give up.Some on here might wish I would do that more often😉.

Worst still is when I am talking to someone and I realise I am about to say a word I have always had difficulty with pronouncing and panic trying to find something else in its place.

It could of course be even worse when using the wrong word completely as I once did at University when I said orgasm instead of organism ,not just once but a few times, and this was at a Christian Society meeting which my friend whose ( I hope that’s correct😳) room was next door to mine in our Hall of Residence had organised.I think he asked me along as some form of catalyst to get conversation going as I was certainly not the religious type.To this day every time I think about what the people thought I still get embarrassed and this was sometime in 1970 to 1971.
 
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“Awesome”

and as above “cheeky”…coffee, beer, Nandos……what’s ** cheeky about any of these activities? Is the addition of the word supposed to indicate that you are a rebellious type engaging in an almost forbidden activity?
 
Coinslot said:
You know drives me mad. An ex boss of mine would use it a lot. I decided to count how many times she said it in the first ten minutes of a meeting (this simple activity was far more interesting than listening to whatever she was droning on about)


38 times.
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I’ve taken to counting the number of times Brett says “you know” after a question.
 
I don’t like being referred to as “guys” when in a restaurant with my wife.

I don’t like overuse of question marks or exclamation marks.

I don’t like football pundits who put football teams in the plural e.g. Your United’s, your Liverpool’s, your Cities. Say which ones you mean for goodness sake instead of saying there’s more than one Liverpool.
 
Seriously, so if I’ve got this right guys, and I’m down wid da yoof, tonight I’m hoping we don’t loose. I’m going to have a cheeky Nando’s and pint before I’m of to the game cos I’m a legend, obvs. Hoping it’s an awesome match, oh my days, I bet there’ll be some brutal bants for sure. Literally I hope we spank them hard, innit absolutely etc. 👍
 
🙄 Obvs that is defiantly the best post on the thread.

I think we’ll win 1-0 with a Jerry Yates pelanty

Jerry’s good at pelanties but he’s not in the same league as your Kane’s and Salah’s
 
Goin, walkin, instead of ing. Even we’ll know presenters like Beth Rigby do it regularly, really grates on me,
 
The current political speak favourite of failing ministers 'we are surging capacity' gets on my nerves.
Because;
  • it is so unspecific that it could mean anything
  • it just sounds really stupid
  • it has become a euphemism for doing next to nothing

Examples are 'we are surging capacity for Ukranians to get visas in Calais' - which amounted to two people in an office on an industrial estate in Lille giving out bags of crisps and bottled water (if I remember correctly).

leverage as a verb really annoys me as well
 
Someone does something good and they have “smashed it”
Smashed what? A fukcing window, a vase, a mirror?

A lot of words that seem to start off with the juveniles down south for some reason end up here.
OK fam, innit,
Yo, blood, ganwan.
I aint doh.

One can only assume that these illiterates are not taught the Queens’ English in school anymore.
 
The thing is - is …..

Here’s the deal ……

‘I turned round to her’ and said ………

At the minute …… (when did at the ‘moment’ turn into a whole sixty seconds?!)

‘Hardship’ - I.e has mobile phone, wears fashion labels, is morbidly obese - but is starving and doesn’t have enough money to squander on even more excessive living 🤷‍♂️

Extremist - for anyone slightly right of the hard leftists

One hundred percent

Life-changing

‘A myriad’ when it should just be ‘myriad’

Crisis - used for any slight or significant problem

Unbelievable for something which is perfectly believable though surprising.

It’s just warm - used by Gregg’s staff when they’ve taken your money and are handing you your cold pasty.

Mayonnaise - vile filthy heart clogging grease added to cheap food to increase its shelf life
 
Eternaloptimist said:
Someone does something good and they have “smashed it”
Smashed what? A fukcing window, a vase, a mirror?

A lot of words that seem to start off with the juveniles down south for some reason end up here.
OK fam, innit,
Yo, blood, ganwan.
I aint doh.

One can only assume that these illiterates are not taught the Queens’ English in school anymore
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Don't those words originate in the black community and then copycatted by the white yoof?
 
Trammo said:
“Labour is working.” Are they feck !🤣🇬🇧
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Labour aren't in office Trammo. It's the Tories who aren't working. Well, to be fair to them, they do put an awful lot of work into hobnobbing with Russian oligarchs. That's because they want their cash to prop up the Tory party.
 
So, I get sick of people using so as the start of an answer.

Bugger, I've just done it myself. 😜
 
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