To be honest I've picked up a bad habit

Chewbacca,I agree,I find it very irritating.Nearly every person on T.V starts speaking by saying, So.

my DD1 says Really? (as a rhetorical question) ALL THE TIME
Granny23 My DD says 'Really?' very earnestly to people who are coming out with a load of bullshit whoppers

It's as much as I can do to keep a straight face.

Chewbacca, I agree entirely. What is it with 'so' beginning every sentence? It's everywhere - TV presenters (Countryfile one of the worst offenders), authors, academics, schoolchildren, teachers.... I could go on for ever. Where did it come from? Is it an Americanism that has taken off over here? Will it ever go away? Or is it now in the English language for good? It annoys me SO much - see that's where it's meant to be - in the middle of a sentence, not at the beginning - Grrrrr!!

lemongrove
'That's disgusting that is' is another Nessa saying I think!

Even toddlers have their overworked phrases, “It’s not fair” being the most common.

Oh yes Jalima and another Nessa saying ...crackin’

"Howya doin" annoyed me so much I asked the builder "how am I doing what?"!!!

Oh and "how are you" to be told "good", I was not enquiring as to their behaviour but their health!

I used to have lunch fairly regularly with some friends where I lived before and DH would tell anyone who phoned or wanted me that I was out with the Actually Club.

As someone from Northern Ireland I have the habit of calling everything “wee”. I laughed when I rang to book theatre tickets in Belfast and was asked what my wee name was, and my wee phone number, did I have a wee card, then to give her the wee number etc. Then since then I have noticed my own tendency to use “wee”: “wee cup of tea”, “wee bun”, “wee dote (a darling)”, leaving a “wee message”, sending a “wee card”, ad infinitum. I’m not sure if it’s a bad habit or not but it’s so ingrained I doubt if I’ll ever be able to stop.

My husband says "As I say..." when he patently doesn't!

Rosieroe
Don't change, I love an Irish accent! Especially the girl in 'Motherland' (Eire, I know) who mentions someone 'acting the giddy goat'!

Camelot ??

Son sticking his head round the door saying, Allright?
and a husband who says ‘exactly’ when he can’t think of anything better to say.
Me-for goodness sake?

I find myself doing a little laugh at the end of a sentence. I seem to do it when a stranger talks to me, like I'm trying to appear really pleasant. I must stop it!!

In the days when doors were left open for visitors to just come in, my aunt used to come round, knock and say 'It's only me' as she came in. That used to annoy my mother

I had a friend who said, 'You know what I mean?' after every (somewhat banal) statement. I felt like saying, 'Of course I know what you mean. An amoeba would understand that.' However, I knew the question was rhetorical and a verbal tic. Also, that my own conversation probably wouldn't bear much examination either!

Coconut 'actually' is my bad habit right now. I just don't seem to be able to stop saying it!

Oh dear - basically I actually seem to say many of these but to be fair as I'm on my own most of the time so no one hears it - much. My husband seems to have started say etc etc all the time!

HaHaHa I do the same!!

"You know" after every sentence is my pet peeve! Some people use it after every few words. It drives me crazy.

I was listening to someone talking recently at a meeting. They used this phrase 110 times in 15-20 minutes.

Yes I did count the use of cos I was being anal. I find them boring in a speaker session. I knew they used this phrase alot so decided to count the use of. It drove me even more mad. Yes my fault I know.

There are others however "you know" is the worst

My cringe is 'life's too short'. Ugh!

Life’s too short to be worrying so much. I’m sure we all use the cited phrases from time to time, or more frequently, often to be noticed in our posts. It doesn’t really bother me and I probably don’t even notice.

My gripe is 'I don't blame you' about something perfectly harmless, like having a hot bath.
Another is the expression 'in terms' - not 'in terms of' - which I often hear on the news on Radio 4, as in 'He stated, in terms....' I think it means 'explicitly'. I can't find it on Google. John Humphrys says it.

A neighbour, after she had been to the shops , would say I have invested in some streaky bacon,never just bought it!