‘I WOULD SAY’! It’s just so silly.

'It is what it is ' what does that actually mean ?

Not bothered about Dear or Dearie unless it’s only aged at the older generation then it can be patronising.

Chick’s quite common here. One of the health visitors used to call everyone Blossom. She was hopeless with names!

My (Londoner) graddad always called me and my Mum "ducks" and my Liverpudlian great aunt called me "chick".

Oh Pollyperkins you've just made me smile. My grandfather always called me 'me duck', and you brought back such happy memories of a dear man. He was from Lincolnshire so I'm guessing you are from a similar area.

Eloethan - i was called ‘Me duck’ yesterday by a local delivery driver (it’s local dialect). Doesn't bother me at all. Or any of those you mention but agree that dear sounds patronising as if speaking to a little old lady. (Which I suppose I am but not very little!)

from the get go what does that mean? Just heard it on the weather.grrrr

I don't mind at all being called love, darling or even sweetheart but I don't like being addressed as dear. I know it's irrational but it comes across as patronising.

Sussexborn Hate to admit it but I am not the least bit bothered about how other people say things as long as they are pleasant and polite. ???

Hate to admit it but I am not the least bit bothered about how other people say things as long as they are pleasant and polite.

When we first moved here I didn’t realise “You alright?” was a greeting and I was supposed to respond back with “You alright?”. I wonder what neighbours thought when I said “fine thank you”. I hope they weren’t as judgemental as some of the posters on GN.

I wonder if a hockey stick would be enough like an umbrella to do, Daddima.

I’ve listened to the argument about language evolving, but I can’t see how, ‘ was like’ is an acceptable substitution for ‘ said‘ , as in, ‘so I was like, ‘ where are you going?’ And how is it an evolution of language to use ‘ like’ in front of every second word? ‘ It’s, like, raining today, so I’ll need to, like, put on my raincoat, and take, like, an umbrella.’

Good heavens grumpy or what ?! What is wrong with yesterday evening? Being called love or duck or my darlin....surely that’s regional and quite nice really ?

The expression yesterday evening instead of last night irritates me. Lately no matter what the conversation is on tv everyone starts a sentence with 'So'. I can't stand being served by someone young referring too me as love.

I don’t like “why oh why”. “Don’t get me started on” so beloved of some gransnetters just to even up the balance, it’s not always the young people using irritating expressions ! I used to hate it when my mother said “in my day”

On a daily / weekly etc basis.

What's wrong with daily or weekly etc on their own?

Also , and I’ve said this before (it’s a pet hate): ‘It looks like it’s going to’ (should be ‘it looks as if...’)

When did ‘one to one’ become ‘one on one’? Or ‘day by day’ become ‘day on day’? 24/7 irritates me but I suppose it’s a useful shorthand for ‘night & day, 7 days a week’!

I've just seen this on Google and had to share " They didn't want to illicit sympathy"

The one that drives me completely around the twist, is the people who add "you know" into their conversation, all the time. Not an occasional "you know" With some its very other one or two words

At the top of the hour ?

Flattening the curve!

well i don't quite get annoyed but i notice difference, or changes in usage, and then i get slightly annoyed if whoever denies that it is a change. do you know what i mean ?
eg, (i heard it again today on radio), something or somebody having been named for his uncle or saint's day.
we always used to say, named after...
similarly, his name is john but he goes by jack. that to me means he passes jack's house. we would say he is called or known as, or prefers to be called jack.
i don't object to the different form, and i guess it has come from north america, (anyone from there tell us please ?);
but people here in uk blankly stating, that's what we have always said. maybe v young people have, but not we oldies.

My pet hate words are "going forward", what is wrong with "in the future"!

The way people seem to start every conversation with 'So'. And then continue with lots of ums.