Your answer to annoying sayings

You’ve started me off now on my pet hate. This always happens in my bank. The greeter says ‘Are you alright there.’ I take this as a question and answer ‘yes, thanks’. I don’t say anymore or move. She then gets the message and we progress.

I was sitting on the ‘bus behind two young lassies and the conversation went like this:

Girl 1. “Well, after we heard, I was like ‘Uh?’, and Naomi was like ‘Eh?’, and Chloe was like, ‘What?’
It was like, AMAAZING!”.
Girl 2. “OMG! You musta been like, WOW!”

I know I was like, eavesdropping, which is not like, very nice, but I really would have liked to know what had been going on!

Grannyknot. The origins of the word afraid being said as you mention is politely introducing bad news so Alexander Armstrong is using the word correctly

Oh - its 'sat sitting' around here. Sorry razzmatazz but I just love the sayings in my adopted county.

Being told someone "has lost a relative." I always want to ask them where was the last place they remember them being.

Another irritation - when people are asked if they want something they reply 'No - you're alright' . What does that mean?

Not a misuse of words, but an annoying occurrence, when my bank rings me and then asks security questions. Do they think I'm a burglar in my house , answering the 'phone?

Paddyann
Here in N Ireland a wee poke is an ice cream cone, usually from the poke-man (ice cream van) - it caused much confusion the first time my work colleague from Somerset heard the phrase...

“See you later” can also be misconstrued in some situations
Whilst working abroad my male colleague said this to someone he had just been talking to at a bar in an hotel. Being a Northerner he meant” Goodbye “ He then went up to his room. 10 minutes later a knock on his door and he opened it to see the ‘friend ‘ standing there wanting to know if she could come into his room. He was horrified!

What about ‘like’that always comes up.
So annoying.

'Would you like a cup of tea?' 'I'm OK thanks'. I didn't ask how you were, I asked if you wanted a cup of tea!

...don't get me started on the me, personally at this moment in time!

40 years ago I moved house, a distance of 30miles. More than one of my new neighbours said "see you later" when saying goodbye. I was confused as I had made no arrangement to see them again that day and this wasn't used 40 miles down the road.

5 years later I moved 25 miles and even in that short distance people used different phrases.

Gransnet has a number of threads similar to this and it does make me cautious what I say.

I love that in Ireland and to a lesser extent it happens here in the West of Scotland .I'm very guily of adding wee though its a wee "poke" not bag .A friend married a lady from Essex and when my OH asked if she needed a wee poke (for the leaflets she was carrying) she was very flustered and confused .Caused a lot of hilarity when she explained what a poke meant in Essex.

This is just grammar but when people say He/I was sat....... It is NOT 'was sat' . it is 'was SITTING'.

I could SCREAM .

"Kind of" is driving me mad - Hope I don't start kind of saying it.

Here in Ireland people put "wee" in front of a lot of words. "What's your wee name", "would you like a wee bag for that", "just put your wee card in the machine". I find it quite endearing.

And therein lies the problem Sparklefizz I am never thinking quickly enough for a riposte.

Pedants' Corner, anyone?

So....is this new!!! Count this sometimes, mainly young people I think.

*Candelle" My brother always ends his phone calls with "see you later" - he lives in Australia and I haven't seen him for almost 4 years - I am tempted to ask him what time his plane lands!

When I was 12, I was asked to take a message to a teacher who was in the middle of a class.

I was nervous and shy enough as it was to interrupt the class and pass on the message in front of 30 other girls, but wanted a big hole to open up under me when I said

"Mrs C says can you go to her office."

and the teacher replied

"I can, but will I?"

I had no idea what she was talking about at the time but have never forgotten the red-faced embarrassment at standing there while everyone giggled.

I get really irritated when people repeatedly add a particular word to many sentences. For example I have a friend and there is a tv presenter I see a lot who both add the word ‘obviously’ to everything they say. I want to say ‘no it’s not obvious to me’ or ‘ why do you think it’s obvious?’
I was watching the presenter do a a show and within 30 minutes I lost count at 50+ repeats of the word.

On a recent Would I Lie To You, Rob Bryon said to David Mitchell, "You won't mind me saying this ..." and David's response was, "Won't I? I wondered what I was feeling."

Love it, oakleaf. Wish I could think that quickly!

The landlord at our local, if someone asked "Can I get...." Would reply " No you can't, that's my job"