What current day words drive you up the wall?

Haitch. If you ring the probate inheritance tax number the woman giving the initial spiel says it about twenty times.
Passed, no, the word you're looking for is died.
Let me be quite clear. It's shorter to just say 'Let me lie.'
My youngest grandson says 'aminals'. I'll weep when he recognises his mistake and says animals ♥️

Grannybags

My bad

Poppyjo My Mum used to go mad if I said bit instead of drop if talking about liquid!

This really annoys me too. It has suddenly appeared. The other thing that is so irritating is the mis-use of the word "like", as in, "I was like", "he was like". It used to be said to express a preference for something but not any more.

Impactful

I’d never call aitch anything but aitch except on the ‘phone when, to avoid any misunderstanding that it could be an “a”, I always say haitch. Don’t see it as a problem.

‚Back to back‘….. that makes me think of the starting position for a duel

Haitch is terrible. In N Ireland it marks you out as a Catholic.
Stan when used by young people to mean like.
Exasperate when meaning to make something worse.

Contra Bute instead of contrib ute.

I am happy that language evolves, but there are one or two words that I bite my lip not to correct. Upmost, rather than utmost for example.

My granddaughter is three and a half and today heard someone say ‘loads of…..’, which prompted her to respond with, “that’s not right granny, she should say ‘lots of’, not loads”. ?

He/she/my friend 'wrote me'. Eh? Wrote what? Wrote to me. Wrote me a letter.

I absolutely hate it when someone says "No problem"

GrannyBeek - I agree. 'Amount of' instead of 'number of' is the only one I correct aloud when listening to the radio or hear TV interviews. I expect better from Radio 4, though I suppose they can't control what their interviewees say.

Haitch is terrible. In N Ireland it marks you out as a Catholic.

A bit judgemental there, Kircubbin ?

I’ve explained that I use it on the ‘phone mainly for my own benefit but don’t aspirate the word otherwise.

My children (adults) both inexplicably say 'haitch'. I assume a teacher is responsible, as neither my husband nor I do.

AFAIK neither of them has converted to Catholicism though ?

Same over here, they say haitch is used by and taught by Catholics. Doesn’t bother me, I think it is rather cute and quirky. We have paddicks instead of paddocks and Austraya for Australia. One particular politician was known for that.

I loathe being told to "stay safe".
You know what? Life's a bit risky. Get over it!

I hate all these Americanisms. A couple that I hear a lot -

Can I get (no, you damned well can't)
I'll just grab a coffee (don't you dare grab it)
There are a bunch of people (bananas come in bunches, not people)

No belladonna, not judgemental at all. It's true here most Catholics say Haitch, no idea why.

People starting every sentence with 'So.......'

'Fave'. What's so difficult about saying or writing 'favourite'?
I've even seen it on these forums.

at the end of the day
can't get my head around it
build back better
stay safe

I'm not even gonna lie.
That's a strange one.
I think my boys deliberately use every new saying they can until I get really cross because I have no idea what they're talking about. (And they both mumble)

"My bad"
saying "no" as in "That was a good meal, no?"
In real life

Latest pet hate: 'populate''.
Populate (fill in) the spreadsheet, form etc
Populate (cover) the wall with pictures.

Bored of, fed up of instead of with.
Different to instead of different from.
Incorrect use of less and fewer.

Debark instead of disembark