Your answer to annoying sayings

Amount: instead of number. You can't have an amount if people - custard yes, but think countable nouns. Sorry, I used to teach English and realised something horrible about myself: I liked to feel superior to those who misused language. Now I'm 75 and suffering the shame of old age: depleted hair, memory, mobility I intend to curb my irritability.

Oh yes, I agree with so many of these!
Another is the confusion between lay and lie, as in, “I was laying in bed”. I want to ask how many eggs they produced.
Over use of ‘robust’, ‘I turned around and said’ and ‘obviously ‘ irritate me.
Might just be me, but two female weather presenters say ‘as well’ repeatedly in their bulletins. I’ve counted it used five times in a couple of minutes. I know I’m being niggly, but after all they’re professional speakers.

Most of these expressions annoy me too, but I'm just wondering what we used to say in the past instead of some of them. Usually people are only trying to be polite or sociable when they use them. Having said that, I hate "different to" - surely if it's different it's moving "from". And "bored of" I've even seen in books.

Rosyposy I hate it. I want to say its not wee, its the standard size. grrr. And I feel shops use it more with older ladies ( or maybe that's my paranoia).

Oh Margs I do feel for you, it can be tedious I know. If it were me, I think I'd walk to the next stop to avoid this situation, if it's not too far.

Margs I sympathise but having been recently diagnosed I sort of know where they are coming from.
I would just avoid eye contact if you don't want to have the conversation.

I live very nearby our main hospital and the bus stop is directly outside the entrance, so whenever I'm waiting there's ALWAYS someone bound to come beetling up to catch the same bus and though I try to get away with a polite smile and "hello" they always throw their opening gambit at me - "I've just had to see a Consultant...." which obliges me, out of basic manners, to reply "Oh - is there something wrong?"

And I get their full medical history, detail for detail, medication for medication, agony for agony Ad Nauseam.

And the worst thing is that I sense they revel in their 'horror' stories. Drone, drone, drone. Still, maybe their nearest & dearest have got tired and given them a sharp "shut up!"

While I think the meanings of the words antisocial and unsocial have shifted, I still bridle if I decline to attend a social event and am accused of being antisocial.

For me, antisocial means law-breaking and/or indulging in activities which make life difficult and unpleasant for other people: graffiti, littering, neighbour noise etc.

I used to retort that I wasn't being antisocial at all but rather unsocial on that occasion as I just didn't feel like going to that particular event.

Nowadays, I only seem to hear the word unsocial in the context of working hours which is odd as people are asked to work unsocial hours because that's when other people want to be social. I have yet to hear anyone say they have been asked to work antisocial hours

Here in Northern Ireland it’s ‘wee’ everything - drives me nuts. What’s your wee name, what’s your wee number, etc! Especially when said name and number are not at all ‘wee’ but very long. Mostly said by hairdressers and beauticians for some reason,

I think voicing what we dislike does not make us rude especially since it is the topic of this thread.
The thing is, Lumerai, that isn't exactly the topic of this thread is it? The topic is Your answer to annoying sayings. But, as is the way with threads, many posters have strayed and simply used the thread to post sayings that annoy them, not their answer to them

Realise this isn't strictly "sayings" but everyone has come up with the ones that annoy me and I just felt I wanted to join in with a grump.

Presenters on tv and radio who pronounce th as f - Fursday, fink, fank etc. It's nothing to do with regional accents, which I like hearing. It's childish and lazy. If you're in the public eye, shouldn't you make some effort to sound like an adult.

A acquaintance of mine in her late 70s , has an amusing reply when asked if she has a ' partner '. She has been married over 50 years. She says No I do not have a partner. I don't do dancing '. Usually met with non comprehension by younger people.

Call centre assisstant: "Could I have your name please?"
Me: (give my name.) Then,
Call centre assistant: Excellent!
Me: (thinking assistant thought I am so barmy I wasn't going to know my own name!)!!

I had a friend who always used to say (when she was repeating a conversation she'd had) "and I turned round and said" she must have been quite dizzy as she was always turning round and saying!

@MOnica, you are absolutely correct, nobody speaks perfectly all the time and most of us have a particular word or phrase we say a lot and just the fact that it crops up so often can annoy other people. I am guilty of a few of the linguistic offences stated here (for example starting a sentence with “so” or asking people if I can have their name when they call at work) etc.

I think voicing what we dislike does not make us rude especially since it is the topic of this thread.

Above post to lemongrove

Thread 'I predict...' Dec 8th
Started to to go bit Pete Tong (wrong) after my post at 22:46, page 7 ( if using mobile)
Bit of flak and it continued onto page 10.
Women being silly...IMO.
I'd much rather have someone ask me outright than have concerns about the veracity of my 'conflicting comments' re my 'earlier life'.
If that person doesn't respond by telling me what comments were, in her opinion, conflicting accounts made by me, then I cannot address the issue or correct her.
You'll get the picture when you read it.
G'night.

Just posted this on another thread but thought it was worthy of this one too.

When someone says ‘we love that’ I always feel like replying
‘You and who else’ ?

The use of the word "like" annoys me. When I was teaching maths if a student answered "it is like, 10", my response would be, "No, it IS 10".
My other issue is starting an answer with "So", when asked what they did at the weekend, they might respond, "So, I went to the cinema". Such a common occurrence these days.

you say "bears are always right.." (winnie the pooh stories) bear right .lol

Totally agree razzmatazz. I do scream when that is said ,so often, on radio or TV. Don’t they know that ‘was sat’ means someone else put them in that position.
The other thing which really makes me want to scream is just how many people cannot tell the difference between ‘their’ ( belonging to) and ‘there’ (a place).It is such a common mistake now.

Are you sure that you are still you GG54 ?
We have had a few strange ones on GN of late. Who is from Widnes btw ( am I too late to catch up?)

margie303 I loved your comment.

dragonfly46
The recorded intro when you ring H&M has me rolling my eyes as the 'girl' pronounces it as a very strong HAICH and em. Wish I could politely tell them to change it.

oldbatty
I asked GN if it was ok to amend my name as some remarks were made about someone with my intials and, as the persons involved were being IMO 'silly', I wanted to make clear that I am not 'GG is a bloke from Widnes' and 'a person to be ignored' as someone with the initials GG is supposed to be. The people who wrote this stuff may well have been referring to me but there are others here with the same initials.
I put a short note re name change on that thread to avoid confusion.