THAT (bl**dy) woman dealer on Dickinsons' Real Deal who; when shown an artifact worth circa £2000: offers 5 shillings and sixpence!!!!!!! She REALLY gets my goat!!!! (very relavant apostrophes I think!!!!)
Bellanonna. I love wood pigeons, except when we are camping and they start at daybreak. I always think that they are saying “You did do something.. You DID do something!” ?
The fashion for young white people to insist on using language / phrases originating from other communities. Particularly using language/ expressions which are part of the speech patterns of people from the Afro Caribbean communities. It drives me nuts and sounds ridiculous
Young people who misuse the word ‘like’, e.g ‘I was like, wow’ etc. Sometimes I count the number of ‘likes’ in a sentence (yes, I know, sad ..,). I read some time ago of a school which had banned misuse of the word and almost, like, cheered.
Swearing. If I am allowed a second - would of/could of/should of instead of would have/could have/should have. I am in agreement with Americanisms too.