Things that annoy you that shouldn't

'Beyond' as in, " The children are beyond tired". My son says it. What's wrong with extremely?

Milest0ne

I find regional accents fascinating , but I hate the lazy way many tv presenters do not pronounce " th" or "v" such as firty free" rather than 33. Since when is S pronounced sh . Shpeshal, like?

..ah, Moneypenny.

dolphindaisy

I hate the way all the current TV dramas seem to be filmed in the dark, obviously no one lives in brightly lit houses these days.

Yes...and they mumble too. Never had to use subtitles so much for my own language! I know it’s not my ears, because a test before Christmas showed them to be in tip top condition.

I hate the way all the current TV dramas seem to be filmed in the dark, obviously no one lives in brightly lit houses these days.

I feel a new expression coming on. Instead of being merely a Grumpy Old Woman when I’m having a moan about something relatively trivial, I shall be having a VM.

Vintagejazz Thanks
Your post made me laugh-a good start to this morning.???.

People who run up the hill then stop, doubled over and panting at the end of our garden.
Gives me a guilt complex for not running up the hill!

Articles where celebrities are asked to describe their typical weekend and it's all cycling in the woods with the children, brunch with friends, visits to exhibitions, a huge Sunday roast with all the extended family and so on.

None of them ever admit to a long lie in, or mooching around the shopping centre, or spending Sunday afternoon reading the papers or watching telly followed by a Chinese takeaway because they can't be bothered cooking

Chrissyoh

Germanshepherdsmum

Everything. I am becoming Victor Meldrew.

Haha???

snap me as well. My tolerance has gone and I can be very blunt with people who irritate me especially lazy colleagues at work.

"Speak soon" & "Speak to you later" annoy me as, usually, there is no actual intention to do that.
However, I just sent an email where there actually is an intention to speak later today and I couldn't bring myself to finish with such a phrase.

People who don't recognise homonyms in expressions of death.

"Sorry for your loss/sorry you've lost your dad" etc. is perfectly valid in grammar as meaning 'that which has been taken away and cannot be replaced' rather than 'something which can't be found'.

Equally, as some knowledgeable posters upthread have pointed out, 'passed' meaning change from one state to another, as in life to death, rather than passed by in direction.

It's all part of the rich variety of the English language, innit?

My stance on the nan/grandma debate is obvious

I find regional accents fascinating , but I hate the lazy way many tv presenters do not pronounce " th" or "v" such as firty free" rather than 33. Since when is S pronounced sh . Shpeshal, like?

I get probably unreasonably all agitated over the very prevalent habit today of the word 'been' now being pronounced as 'bin'. I want to shout at the telly ! I heard that it's quicker for people such as journalists to say 'bin' rather than 'been'. Plus I hate when sentences are started with the word 'so'. Okay in the middle of a sentence but starting a sentence ??

"at this moment in time" really aggravates me - what else could a moment be in - custard?

"hubby" - just no.

Poor punctuation.

People eating apples or crisps anywhere in my vicinity. I'm almost phobic about these.

Being turned away if I'm even 5 minutes late for a GP or Dental appointment, when I am ALWAYS kept waiting for ages by them!

It really grates on my last nerve when I hear people saying 'Birminam' or 'Nottinam'.
Do they not know that there are 'GHs' in those city names? It's 'BirminGHam' and 'NottinGHam'.

I love fringes. Back in the 60s, I would have given anything to have hair like Cathy McGowan, fringe an all. I still would. At nearly 80 she is still gorgeous and has Michael Ball.

*Cathy McGowan is who I was trying to think of, with the long fringe, not Sandie Shaw.
Fringes annoy me.

'Giving a nod to...xyz' is a phrase I dislike, especially if I hear it said, not just see it written.

Mischeeevious gets on my pip too! As does being called a girl when I’m a 60 year old woman. Oh, and people who say ‘ain’t’ all the time - and people who say ‘I am 70 years young’ ….and tv chefs who talk with their mouths full …. I could go on. But that would annoy people ?

I like being called by my first name, too.
I must be a very easy customer.

Retired65

When on the phone to the bank and the customer service person asks if it is ok to call you by your Christian name.

I've been asked this question and didn't mind being asked; I replied "no thank you, please call me Mrs ...... " There was a brief moment of stunned silence.... I get very cross when people on the phone assume it's fine to call me by my Christian name without asking first.

I agree with most of the previous posts, and having read a lot of them during the last year I am especially irritated by estate agents' property particulars. Floor plans containing rooms with no means of entry; a flat for sale with a description belonging to another flat in a similarly-named road in another town; homes described as being "within walking distance of shops/bus stop/etc" when these facilities are over half a mile away (I can't walk far); or, worse, descriptions for homes for sale or holiday homes to rent that say vaguely "10 mins to shops and pub" and you just know they mean by car, not on foot. What's the point of being 10 minutes from the pub by car? Someone - usually me - will have to forego having a drink so we can get home again! I thought there was a law against estate agents providing misleading or wrong information but I think they all now write whatever they want and put a disclaimer at the end to wriggle out of it. Grrr!

I am also annoyed by online forms which insist on having your phone number. I am hard of hearing and prefer not to use the phone. The whole point of going online is so I can communicate with the company by email, otherwise I'd just phone them to start with.

skelington instead of skeleton, specific when they mean pacific. I have a black felt-tip in my bag to correct mistakes on signs, unnecessary or missing apostrophes, spelling mistakes, local butcher was selling ”hole” lambs. Used to embarrass my girls when there were young, they do it themselves now

On the other hand I especially like local pronunciations such as 'Emburry' as when the late Prince Philip was "The Chooky Emburry".

I quite like being called a guy.
It makes me feel all young and "with it".

homefarm

My neighbour's wind chimes and twinkly lights.
Island instead of IRELAND

You might be calling out these poor people unjustly. When I had a really bad back it was bliss to lean on the trolly bent over a bit .

Basically everything annoys me at the moment

When on the phone to the bank and the customer service person asks if it is ok to call you by your Christian name.