Any words or phrases that you can't stand?

winterwhiteA fur baby is a pet, usually a dog.

Precisely rosenoir, it's a dog not a furbaby. Even a puppy is a puppy, not a baby!!

Princess Diana: she never was nor would have been; she was Diana, Princess of Wales.
Use of initials instead of names: BJ, SJ, JS, DC, PP etc. (strangely, very rarely was Corbyn referred to by his initials).

Diana, Princess of Wales
Ending sentences with a questioning tone

I'm with you Nanny27 mischeeveous it is not!
I thought it was a mere dialect difference from other parts of the Kingdom.
Jewellery pronounced jooleree instead of the "proper" way: joo-uhl-ree
or nuclear pronounced nuke-you-lar, especially by politicians.

I have a friend who calls everyone Hun and darling. It's quite endearing from her but if everyone did it, woah!!

Thank you grammaretto was beginning to think it was just me.

I think I can tolerate a lot of new styles of speech, can even put up with 'guys' in a bar or restaurant but if anyone calls me babe or hun they are likely to get a thick lip! ?

Diana, Princess of Wales was her name after divorce.

This moment in time
Can I get
So I was, like....
She turned round and said .....
Set pulses racing ( when referring to sexily dressed celebrity
Hun
Does that make sense?

Little man ( when referring to a baby boy) grrr!

'obviously', no it's not!
yous guys

I work with someone who uses, hun and if you get me. I feel like she's talking down to me and thinks I'm stupid. I am 30 years older than her, stupid bint. hahahaha!

I do like gobshite, makes me laugh.

Another one that bugs me 'stunning'

I know this is a real grumpy old bag thing, but ‘No problem!’ when said e.g. by a waiter/waitress after you’ve said thank you for bringing whatever you’ve ordered.

Or ‘NOT A PROBLEM!’ at full volume, which came close to making me want to scream on a holiday in Oz, when they practically yelled it every single time.
I so badly wanted to say, ‘Well, I’m glad it’s not a problem, since it is actually your job to bring what I’ve ordered.’
(As I said, Grumpy Old Bag!)

We broke the return journey in Singapore, where dh has relatives, and oh, the relative peace of quiet, efficient, unobtrusive service.

Yummy mummy

I don't usually concern myself with the way people speak - as long as I understand what they are saying, but (you knew there would be a but!) I really dislike the use of "hubby" - why not just use his name and "furbaby" - it's an animal not your child.

My brother always ends a phone conversation with "see you later" - I'm in UK he is in Australia! I am sure one day I am going to ask him if I should get the spare room ready

Another vote about hubby - it makes me cringe. I imagine it being said by a little woman wearing a wrap around pinny - probably hair in rollers and deferring to her husband on everything!

No worries - I ask you - what's wrong with nae bother ?

‘Accidental’ landlord.
What exactly is ‘accidental’ about renting out a house or flat you own? I have yet to hear of anyone who didn’t think about it first, and then decide that it was in their best financial interests.

What a load of moaner we are A great deal of the things listed here are simply speech habits which will pass in time.

I listen to audio books and find it odd that readers do not seem to make a distinction between the different pronunciation of agED and AGEd.

A person can be agED but cheese and wine are both AGEd.

As for mischievIous.... No.

DH was in the Royal Navy for many years and we cringe when we hear on TV or radio THE HMS (name of ship). HMS stands for her majesty's ship so putting 'the' in front of it doesn't make sense. We do hear this quite a bit.

I think the reason many people begin utterances with 'So' is it's a fashionable way to demonstrate you are an acceptable person in tune with modern manners and ideas. Many if not most people will not think for themselves preferring safety of being with a crowd.

A lot of unnecessary linguistic ornaments and hackneyed phrases are used by people who believe they will be more acceptable , trendy, persons thereby. If you watch daytime TV programmes wikth estate agents showing houses to potential customers you will see the customers for inexpensive flats on the Costas defer to the estate agent by giggling at the EA's remarks and they reply with hyperbolic words, whereas the customers for expensive properties in an English rural county feel entitled to think and speak for themselves.

'We are pregnant' is very popular at the moment. When we were expecting ours only 'I' was pregnant! Wish I'd known about that then as he could have had one of them!!

'I hear what you are saying' from a manager who couldn't have cared less what was said so long as he got his way!

"You do you" gets on my wick.

I really dislike ‘listen up!’ What the mischief is wrong with just ‘listen!’ ?

"Bairns" is a northern word. Much better than "kids". Kids are baby goats