Things that annoy you that shouldn't

People moving into their “forever home”

My sons and daughter in law tease me how I pronounce Wales and whales as if they are different words.

The above affects me by making me giggle.

Wayalls..

Wales is voiced 'w' but whales is not voiced 'w' ( merely breathed like blowing something away) when you retain your Scottish pronunciation.

Sons and thoroughly English daughter in law can say whales the proper Scottish way when they try which they exaggerate with a big blowing noise when they want to tease me.

You may think "Who on Earth talks a lot about whales anyway?" Well we do , as daughter in law goes to stay in the NE Scotland to wh-wh-whale and dolphin watch.

I love the wh-ale way of speaking.

I like all local accents and dialects, Miss A. It's funny how some local accents are more popular than others. Nearly everyone likes Geordie. I suppose the Beatles, and Cilla, popularised the Scouse dialect.

Lots of things for me
Bad Grammar
Table Manners
Shop Assistants who ignore you
The wearing of Summer Clothes the minute the Sun is Out .
Iced Coffee which is just Ice & Coffee in a Glass is not "Iced Coffee"

Earnt - is it even a real word?

My husband takes up a whole afternoon cleaning his car. I always say he should just get it valeted. It's time wasted when we could have gone somewhere.

PinkCosmos

Earnt - is it even a real word?

Yes and no. I think it fell out of the OED as a variant, but it is in other dictionaries. I assume -t participles are dying in favour of -ed. But we still in the UK use, for example, 'have learnt' and 'have dreamt' as well as 'have learned' and 'have dreamed'. In fact I'd go so far as to guess that dreamt is more common than dreamed.

It may be because - but this is speculation again - that -t has almost disappeared in American English.

People pronouncing miles as marls.
People saying "give me" - it's even worse than saying "I want"
What is this "sit down" that celebs and would-be celebs have in America with the likes of Oprah Winfrey?
But the thing that really, really annoys me and makes me want to scream is when a bag, any bag, is placed on a table and it tips over onto the floor. Grrrrgrrrr

mrswoo

People pronouncing miles as marls.
People saying "give me" - it's even worse than saying "I want"
What is this "sit down" that celebs and would-be celebs have in America with the likes of Oprah Winfrey?
But the thing that really, really annoys me and makes me want to scream is when a bag, any bag, is placed on a table and it tips over onto the floor. Grrrrgrrrr

What's your stance on "marls per aahh"?

Do the multiply or cancel?