Does it annoy anybody else....

They can't say 'fifth' either, and some of them pronounce 'secretary' as 'secetary'!

Nothing annoys me today, am too tired from hosting a day of activities for DGC and making lunch for 10.Slumped in comfy chair now and may stay here for some time.

Although thinking about it, when watching tv I do shout 'burglaries' you numbskull, not burgelries!!

Oh yes, so many of them do that - even Inspector Jack Frost!

It doesn't matter how much you push the envelope, it is still stationery.

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Have you noticed on the weather forecasts they say remernants of a storm instead of remnants ? Two forecasters do this and I am on the point of writing to the Beeb with yet another complaint.

"Can I get a double expresso" heard yesterday. Aggghhh! No but you may have a double espresso!!

Aaargh indeed! I heard an American woman in a queue for icecream saying 'I wanna get two vanilla, one chocolate etc'
I wanted to shout 'May I have ..... please'

Weather EVENT. Grr. Why not just weather?

Worse, 'literally', when it is anything but. As in 'I literally fell through the floor' when they didn't.

And 'money is the root of all evil' when it should be 'love of money is the root of all evil'.

Penstemmon It was only a couple of years ago that I realised the word was "espresso" and not "expresso".

Pry Minister.

"I'm good" instead of "I'm fine"

"To be fair" instead of "to be honest/frank".

People who say Haitch not aitch as in H I J K .

Heard on BBC weather report this morning, "Winds of 80 mph were reported this morning by the coast." Clever coast

People who start a sentence with So.

Blue sky thinking. My SIL says "I'm good "and now the children say it. I've stopped asking him how he is.

People who say yukulele rather than ukulele, pronounced ookulele.

Well pompa we learn something everyday on GN. I never knew it was wrong to say yookelele and I must be one of millions.

LOL, you are, only ukulele players would think to say ook. It's because it is an Hawaiian word, which translates roughly to jumping flea.

Minimouse - 'reported by the coast'

Pompa - I tried to learn the ook once but I was hopeless because the teacher made us sing along and I can't sing. Or maybe it was because I mispronounced it as yook!

Here comes another BBC one, " .... so please check your trains prior before you travel."

And what about 'return back' as in 'they have now been returned back to their homes'.

PS That's also the BBC and probably others.

Oh dear, another one - on the sports report, ' ..... an Dandy Murray will be playing .....' Do they not teach them any more at the Beeb?

(Note to self - I should get out more)

Took me a while to get that one, Mini. I thought you'd missed the d off 'and' and then I wondered if Dandy Murray was a footballer I had not heard of. I don't know about you but I should definitely get out more.

(Off thread - I have just been looking at knitting patterns on-line and do you know you can knit an Andy Murray?!!)

Min Mouse, best to join an uku club, that way you don't have to sing or you are drowned out anyway (which is why I joined a club)