Things that annoy you that shouldn't

SecUtary instead of secretary
FebUary instead of February
Free instead of three

and while we are on it why is oil pronounced Oyul, you say 'oi' but it is impossible to put an 'L' on the end without pausing ?‍♀️

I just know you are all trying to say it now ???

Many of the above niggle with me but I don't have the energy to get annoyed about them .

With that in mind, I do agree with the dropping of clothes pegs, loose/lose, apostrophes, sniffing, pronunciation of contribute, wrong usage of "myself", "yourself" etc.

I would add that there is a very narrow road up a steep hill in a town near us with a brick wall on one side. If you cycle that route there are 3 alternatives through parks or alternative streets, but cyclists insist on cycling up it. That really does make me cross as a driver. I feel like grinding them into the brick wall. Last time I was there, I saw that they were painting a cycle lane down one side, making the already narrow road even narrower for motor vehicles. When I lived there I went everywhere by bike and always used one of the alternate routes. What's so difficult about that?

AND my dishwasher projects the time still to run onto the floor, alternating with a pictogram of the stage of the cycle it is presently at. Every time I look to check, it has just changed to the pictogram and I have to wait until the time shows up again.

As another Brummie, I agree timetogo. We even have a local reporter on the Midlands News who says Birmingum.

I’m going to make a few enemies with mine, I suspect - but I cringe every time I hear or read Nan or Nana for grandmother.

nanna8

People who think they know everything when they are actually quite thick.

It's actually a real thing:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

All of the above plus people who can`t pronounce Birmingham,
They pronounce it as burninam,as a brummie born and bred it drives me mad.

Comedians such as Jimmy Carr and Michael McIntyre who think if they constantly have a sort of quizzical look on their face it makes them funny.

People who think they know everything when they are actually quite thick.

I'll expand on that one if I may honeyrose?
People who DO bag up their dog poo and then see fit to hang it on a branch where it has the potential to smack you in the face

Welcome to the clan honeyrose.

Most if not all of the above! So, sorry, but I’m Victor Meldrew, so there must be several of us. I also hate -

Posters left out on lampposts, notice boards etc of events that happened days/weeks/months/years ago.

The word “yep” in texts. It’s dismissive.

Radio 2 presenters who talk inanely instead of playing some actual music! Drives me mad. Some of them are so bloody full of themselves! I don’t mind a bit of chat, but not so there’s more silly slobber than music, which increasingly seems to be the case. I could name names.

Rude people with a displaced sense of entitlement.

People who don’t clear up their dog poo.

I could go on. I’ll stop now. I can feel my blood pressure rising.

My dh’s explosive sneezes, like a bomb going off.
It really shouldn’t irritate me after so long, given that he’s never going to change now, but alas it still does.

People saying ‘sickth’ instead of ‘sixth’.

People saying CONtribute instead of conTRIBute.

But that’s quite enough Victoria-Meldrewing for today - I’m now going to give myself a nice pedicure, so that at least the sight of my feet in sandals won’t put anyone off their lunch.

Witzend

Oh, and I will add, re GN, people who post on threads merely to say that they’re not remotely interested in whatever it is, or are bored by it, or loathe it - there’s usually at least one like this on Christmas threads.

Not to mention people who post on Pedants’ Corner threads, telling us all to get a life, nobody cares about these things any more.
Yes they/we do!

Likewise people who ask 'have you nothing else to worry about?' when some one starts a thread about something fairly innocuous.

Yes I've lots of things to worry about but at the moment I want to talk about the price of fish, if that's OK with you.

Mollygo

bridie54

Oh I agree with so many of these but the pronunciation one made me think of ,sadly, Scottish TV snd radio presenters who say Edinbruh. I want to shout it’s Edinburgh.

Hi bridie54
Can you clarify exactly how to say Edinburgh? Do you say it like Edin-berg?
We learnt to say the ending like the end of Lough-borough, and I could never understand why.

Most of us locals would pronounce it something like Ed-in-bruh.

Fringes in people's eyes - like Claudia Winkleman's.
Alexander Armstrong (in Pointless) miming eating or drinking - it makes me want to scream "Stop it, you look really stupid!!"
People who way Haitch instead of Aitch grrrrrrr!!
I'll be back when I remember some more....

1. Much of the above.

2. White ankle socks with lace frills.

3. The weird use of 'myself' and 'ourselves' instead of 'me' (or I) and 'us'. It makes me shout at the TV.

Mr L is giving me strange looks as I silently try to pronounce the variants of 'hours' in an attempt to understand the difference.

bridie54

Oh I agree with so many of these but the pronunciation one made me think of ,sadly, Scottish TV snd radio presenters who say Edinbruh. I want to shout it’s Edinburgh.

Hi bridie54
Can you clarify exactly how to say Edinburgh? Do you say it like Edin-berg?
We learnt to say the ending like the end of Lough-borough, and I could never understand why.

Oh, and I will add, re GN, people who post on threads merely to say that they’re not remotely interested in whatever it is, or are bored by it, or loathe it - there’s usually at least one like this on Christmas threads.

Not to mention people who post on Pedants’ Corner threads, telling us all to get a life, nobody cares about these things any more.
Yes they/we do!

Newspapers saying that such and such a celebrity has 'opened up' about something.

People who say they 'couldn't work in a 9 to 5 office job'.

Caleo, I do agree about estate agents. To me, basic mistakes in the blurbs indicate a sloppy and unprofessional attitude, so I wouldn’t use them.

Plus an increasing tendency for presenters on TV and radio, to drop their Ts, and Gs at the end of any ‘ing’. I do sometimes wonder whether people who wouldn’t normally do it, are told to, in order to sound more ‘cool’ or ‘edgy’, or at least un-posh.

NB I am not talking about regional accents here.

Another thing I’ve notice lately - people pronouncing an initial S as SH - e.g. ‘shtrong’ and shtruggle’. Grrr!

Yes, I know I’m turning into Victoria Meldrew, or rather, I turned some time ago!

People saying ‘Can I borrow you?’

People doing the quotation marks thing with their fingers.

Oh I agree with so many of these but the pronunciation one made me think of ,sadly, Scottish TV snd radio presenters who say Edinbruh. I want to shout it’s Edinburgh.

Vintagejazz

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

I hate the dabbing thing too, but I suffer from rhinitis.

I hate the modern use of "I" instead of "me". It really annoys me! And my bad.
And females in thin leggings with short tops.

Women who say they want to do something but their husbands 'won't let them'

The word ''Revealed'' as used in excess by a certain tabloid newspaper e.g.''So and so has revealed they are leaving a certain show/soap/partner ''etc.
''Baby bump'' usually applying to a celebrity's very visible pregnancy. She flaunts her baby bump