Small things that annoy me.

LadyGracie - you pinched my ^ Beginning a sentence with^ 'So'. This seems to be a recent(ish) thing - but once you notice it, you hear it all the time! It drives me mad! 'So' means therefore/ in that case, but you need a precursor before you can say 'So' - it can't just come out of the blue, referring to nothing at all! (It obviously means very too.) The number of politicians who begin a response to a question with 'So' is increasing. I think it gives them an extra second to dream up a plausible answer!

But the thing that irks me beyond reason is people who use that upward inflection of the voice, as if asking a question, when it's not a question at all, but a statement. i.e. I went to the shops today? I want to reply, 'How the hell would I know if you don't?' I'm less polite with the grandchildren (who do this all the time!). 'Are you asking me or telling me?'

Grrrr!

Arksing in instead of asking
Ribbin instead of ribbon
Chimley instead of chimney

Can I get when ordering food.

People who are constantly looking at their phones when you're talking to them or even worse shop assistants who don't break off a phone conversation to serve you!

A friend on FB who constantly gives our cryptic messages, counts sleeps until some personal event, calls her friends pals and finishes thanks messages off with 'love you all - you know who you are'!!

One BBC weather forecaster who says ‘the remernants of the storm will be passing over the south-east today’. I shout back ‘it’s REMNANTS not remernants’. Her boss should explain about the mispronunciation but I suspect he doesn’t know either.

I complained about ‘off of’ to the same BBC team and things have improved.

I’m not really bothered by peoples’ quirks of speech. Many of the points raised appear perennially on Pedants’ Corner. I care far more about manners especially when lacking
BradfordLass did mention a small point which I do find annoying, though, and that is “ people that”. It just jars somehow but starting sentences with so and some of the other points raised just show that language evolves. People will always mispronounce words but as long as I know what they mean I don’t mind

I like to start sentences sometimes with ‘so’. Yes I know it’s not grammatically correct.
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But I still do it occasionally. It’s intentional. Language evolves. I’m not a pedant. Mea culpa.
But then I’m a forgiving soul.
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‘So’ really grates on me, but then I recalled that it used to be ‘Well’ or ‘ Erm’. It just buys the speaker time.

I cannot stand people saying "HAITCH" instead of "AITCH"

“Love you” - “Love you too” at the end of phone calls when they’ve probably seen the person a few minutes previously.

Oh no - I do that Calendargirl . The one and only time my mum and I ever said “I love you” was on her death bed just before she closed her eyes and my dad and I have never said it to each other. I always vowed my children would hear it regularly from me and we say it a lot as a result.

SirChenjin I never ever heard my parents say ‘ I love you’ to me, but do remember that on the day Princess Diana died my brother phoned me to say it had brought it home to him that he had never told me he loved me. He never did it again after that, but I knew!

And Dannirae, in Edinburgh ‘ itch’ is common!

Currently, I'm being crazy by news journalists, politicians and many others who speak of being "anti-Semetic" rather than anti-Semitic.

“Ok guys “
“Hun “

Yep, all of those, and one daughter calls me "mom" which I hate and the other daughter says "you guys" which I also hate

Nobody should EVER ( sorry to shout just want to emphasise ) stop telling your loved ones you love them ... never ever ever ❤️❤️❤️

That’s how I feel Flowerette, thank you

It annoys me to find I have wasted hours fiddling with a screen - again!

People who walk along the pavement so occupied with their mobile phones that the walk straight into you.

Oh and people who say drarwing instead of drawing. It seems to be becoming more common to insert and extra r into draw, drawing etc.

I used to get told off for saying drawring and I was always worried to say roaring incase that was wrong too!

I agree with most of the posts here!

"Drawring" is common in England along with "lor and ohdah", in other words adding an r where there isn't one and missing out the r which is there at the end of a word.

Another one I notice is using an n instead of ng at the end of words like "endin". Priti Patel does that all the time and I find her very annoying - a lot of things about her, not just her accent.

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I rather be called 'You guys' than 'Lovely' which makes me feel about 105!

Eating out at a restaurant, receiving my food and being told to enjoy it. Is that regardless of it being cooked well ?

Restaurant staff who serve your food and then return when you've barely had time to take the first mouthful to ask, "Everything ok, guys?"

Arrogant people who think the sun shines out of their backsides. A lot of what has been already mentioned. Cold plates in restaurants. Everyone assuming you like butter (I hate it!) People who take up two parking spaces. The list goes on................

People that use strikethrough.