Things that piss you off that shouldn't

[KenjiOgiwara]

2 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

There are hundreds of examples of English people speaking horrible English 

I would say that there, they're, their is the worst written and that don't, doesn't is the worst spoken one, that's so common and I'm guilty of it too

That's the stuff I would do as well, so guess I should pipe down 

[KenjiOgiwara]

I also wanna add "here here". Unless I'm just stupid it must be "hear hear". That's something you see all over the place. 

[choffer]

3 hours ago, Seat68 said:

Febyeree. 
its up there with people who say pacific over specific. 

I would arks them to stop doing that. 

[rjw63]

12 hours ago, TreeVillan said:

Honestly do you pronounce the first R in library?

[mjmooney]

14 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

I also wanna add "here here". Unless I'm just stupid it must be "hear hear". That's something you see all over the place. 

You are correct, sir. It was originally "Hear him! Hear him!" But I can sort of understand the error, as I guess people think it means "Over HERE! Over HERE! Somebody agrees with you!" 

[rodders0223]

Really really really want to play some 5 a side now.

[Tegis]

28 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

There are hundreds of examples of English people speaking horrible English 

[chrisp65]

Is part of the problem that spelling was a bit of a free for all when printing took off and we also now pronounce words quite differently to some of the folks that originally landed on their preferred spelling?

[Genie]

Bare with me

[KenjiOgiwara]

I know it's a stupid thing to be annoyed by, but when I write something with for instance colour into google and it says "do you mean .... color?"

No that's not what I mean. If I ment that I would have bloody written that. 

[NoelVilla]

2 hours ago, villa4europe said:

I need to have my wisdom teeth out 

im 35, always had it that the lower right one wasn't 100% through but never caused me a problem, 2 weeks ago I got a poppy seed lodged under a flappy bit of the gum, infection, inflamed gum, cleaned it all out...dentist still wants to take it out and while she's there she "might as well take the other ones out too"

She is confident. Had mine upper-right taken out last week and after 45 minutes of trying my dentist said -I have to go get a specialist to help me! Not what you want to hear in that situation. They fixed it but it was not a pleasant experience. 

[mottaloo]

37 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

I know it's a stupid thing to be annoyed by, but when I write something with for instance colour into google and it says "do you mean .... color?"

No that's not what I mean. If I ment that I would have bloody written that. 

*meant 

[Follyfoot]

1 hour ago, Genie said:

I’m always surprised how many people spell does as dose. Seems a surprisingly easy word that people get wrong.

Having had the latter in my youth I can clearly state I’ve never made that mistake

[mjmooney]

45 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

I know it's a stupid thing to be annoyed by, but when I write something with for instance colour into google and it says "do you mean .... color?"

No that's not what I mean. If I ment that I would have bloody written that. 

Spoken like a true Anglophile.  

[Stevo985]

I used to work for a guy who pronounces crisps as “crips” and little as “lickle”

 

Hard to take a boss seriously when he talks like a toddler

[villa4europe]

24 minutes ago, NoelVilla said:

She is confident. Had mine upper-right taken out last week and after 45 minutes of trying my dentist said -I have to go get a specialist to help me! Not what you want to hear in that situation. They fixed it but it was not a pleasant experience. 

this was the specialist today, the usual dentist looked at me for 30 seconds on Monday and said that's not me

Germany has this weird archaic referral system for healthcare, its private with absolutely loads of dentists and drs to choose from, lots of specialists but they all use these pink slips to send you elsewhere, almost to the extent that its questionable what the house dr (GP) actually does

for example my wife has to take my daughter to see an eye specialist this afternoon, this specialist who is employed by the hospital visited us the day we left when she was born, we need to see her 3 more times, ok can we book that now while you're here? no that's not allowed, we are currently stood in the hospital can we book at reception? no that's no allowed, we have to use the hospital to get referred to a specialist childs dr, we then need to visit that childs dr, pick up a referral slip of paper and then go back to the specialist at the hospital....can we book all 3 appointments at the same time? no that's not allowed you have to visit the child specialist 3 times and get 3 referral slips for the 3 appointments....and the referral slips work quarterly so if you pick one up and then don't make the appointment before the end of June it gets cancelled and you have to start again...

 

 

[choffer]

Given everyone is piling in with their peeves at the misuse of words, I feel compelled to reference the “gastric” perversions thread. 
Gastronomic, surely?

[Seat68]

This is something that is ripe for this thread. I don’t understand it but its been happening for years. My name is Peter but maybe once or twice a year, in an email or on a call, I get called Paul. Always Paul. Never any other name. 
I have no beef with the Pauls of the world. My best mate is called Paul. Its a fine name. These people are basically ignorant words removed. 

[chrisp65]

11 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

This is something that is ripe for this thread. I don’t understand it but its been happening for years. My name is Peter but maybe once or twice a year, in an email or on a call, I get called Paul. Always Paul. Never any other name. 
I have no beef with the Pauls of the world. My best mate is called Paul. Its a fine name. These people are basically ignorant words removed. 

For reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve got Dave, Frankie and Chris on the go as first names.

Like something from Only Fools And Horses, there are a few people at the football that know me as Dave and you can see them trying to work it out when other people call me Chris. It’s the only place where the different names have crossed.

 

[Seat68]

8 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

For reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve got Dave, Frankie and Chris on the go as first names.

Like something from Only Fools And Horses, there are a few people at the football that know me as Dave and you can see them trying to work it out when other people call me Chris. It’s the only place where the different names have crossed.

 

I lived as John till I was 10 with most of the people of Donnington in Telford. That’s my brother and it’s too much to learn another name. This followed me into school as he was always 2 years ahead and teachers couldn’t be arsed to learn my name. Now its Paul. words removed.