Things that annoy you that shouldn't

Caleo

I say "owers" because I am Scottish. The way English people pronounce 'hours' as if it were "ars" is lazy.

I remember, many years ago, watching an episode of Top of the Form where there was a sequence of questions on homonyms.

The question master, and I think it might have been David Dimbleby, gave definitions of two words that were homonymic and asked the teams to say what the words were.

There was a team from a Scottish school who were given "the lower surface of a room" and "a mark or blemish". After a lot of blank looks Dimbleby offered “floor” and “flaw”. The Scottish team probably missed the next five questions looking at each other quizzically and silently mouthing the words.

Rogue apostrophes for me as well, it really grates.
People who refer to their dogs as fur babies and dress them in ridiculous clothes
People who refer to their husband as 'hubby'
Men who wear heavy gold coloured chains round their necks- don't ask me why it just annoys me.

Better stop now as I'm obviously turning into Victoria Meldrew.

People talking to animals in an infantile voice, the same people who abruptly curtail your conversation as a dog has appeared, ditto babies.
Those who leave their shop trolley abandoned rather than take it back to where they got it from.
People who leave tissues in clothes to be washed (I’m a culprit, after I’ve dabbed of course).

Mollygo Agreed. I’m from the West Midlands but have lived in London for 60 years , and like me, everyone I know says ‘owers’ for hours.

owers from me too Liverpool

mayisay

People who say 'owers' instead of 'hours', including presenters on tv and radio, who really should know better! IMO.

I remember reminding a friend that we had an extra hour in the morning as the clock was changing. A man in our company asked me what I meant and after I repeated it he said he still didnt know what I meant. When we explained he very condescendingly said Oh you mean ower.

I say owers, but then I'm from Essex, where we say everything wrong.

Ours, hours- ou phonetically sounds like ow in cow. How you can make it sound like ars is beyond me.
We say owers-but the er is very short. It’s just dialect then.

Victor Meldrew clones-here I come!

Today it's my husband!!!

New houses being referred to as ‘homes’! They’re not. A home is a house which is lived in by people. I don’t like the word ‘gifting’. Or any euphemism for death. I’m afraid I was a bit mean when my mum rang up to tell me my grandfather (her step father in law) had gone. I instantly said that he has died, hasn’t he? She was a nurse so saw death every day. There’s a lady on my WI committee who says ‘basically’ at least once in every sentence. I’ll stop now.

mayisay

People who say 'owers' instead of 'hours', including presenters on tv and radio, who really should know better! IMO.

I say “owers” - I’m a Scouser ?.

I have decided to identify as him. There will have to be two of us!

Germanshepherdsmum

Everything. I am becoming Victor Meldrew.

You can't be. I am already married to him.

Vintagejazz

Yes sniffers drive me mad. Also people who are constantly dabbing daintily at their nose with a hanky.

So people whose nose tends to run… what are they meant to do if they can’t sniff or dab their nose?

Got to dab here Vintagejazz after my third nasal cauterisation, I’m reluctant to blow in a quiet, ladylike manner, apologies ?

Bad manners in general (excuse me pardon me thank you) that's all I ask.

Germanshepherdsmum

Everything. I am becoming Victor Meldrew.

Haha???

Everything above! I am a grumpy old woman!

The saying Noth Easterners use "The Great North', I live in the Noth west and we are only mentioned on local news if there has been a mountain rescue [ usually not locals some stupid badly dressed person in plimsoles trying to do Striding edge} or a farmer has done something obscene with his sheep!!!.
We have the great North Run, the Great North Hospital,the Great North Children's hospital. The GreatNorth air ambulance I could go on.
I'm afraid in our house it is getting to be the Great North Yawn and sometimes The Great Noth F....t
I lived there for quite a few years and they were lovely jolly people always ready to laugh. Why have they started to tell everyone how great they are? You find out when you are among them.
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Yes sniffers drive me mad. Also people who are constantly dabbing daintily at their nose with a hanky.

HurdyGurdy

Phonetic spellings of business names - e.g. KwikFit, Super Cutz, XYZ Carz. They instantly lose any potential business from me. And don't even get me started on rogue apostrophes . Apple's, potato's or pear's.

Oh, and those drivers that don't acknowledge me letting them out of a junction, or waiting until they pass a row of parked cars.

There's a new hairdressers opened up near here called 'Luvely Hair'. Even if it was the only hairdresser for miles around, I don't think I could bring myself to go in...

How long have you got? ?

People who sniff. Blow your nose, for goodness sake!

People (my husband!) who say 'shall I do that for you when it's not just for me:

Shall I empty the dishwasher for you or vacuum for you etc.
It's not for me it's for both of us!!

Caleo, I don't understand how it's lazy to pronounce a letter that's not even in the word 'hour'!!!