Annoying words that have cropped up in our language

[BrandNewGuy]

... especially if the something or other is 'artisanal'.

[Sue]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> ... especially if the something or other is

> 'artisanal'.

Indeed

[wordsworth]

Indeed

[Sue]

Wordsworth

[teddyboy23]

Bunny boiler

[Moovart]

Incidences

Used incorrectly instead of incidents ie more than one incident

Not to be confused with Incidence (statistical term)

[Jenijenjen]

Device

[Eileen]

floor instead of ground

eg he fell to the floor beside the car

[KidKruger]

Eileen Wrote:

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> floor instead of ground

>

> eg he fell to the floor beside the car

Was he inside a garage ?

[diable rouge]

Ground for outdoors, floor for indoors...

[ianr]

> Ground for outdoors, floor for indoors...

Just so, though you can have, for example "forest floor". I think it depends on there being some kind of ceiling or roof, as there is in forests. Or would just walls do too?

[ETA] OTOH, if you were alone in the forest and inadvertently dropped your peanut butter sandwich, it's probably the ground it's going to end up on.

[Spartacus]

ianr Wrote:

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> OTOH, if you were alone in the forest and

> inadvertently dropped your peanut butter sandwich,

> it's probably the ground it's going to end up on.

If a peanut butter sandwich falls to the ground in a forest and there's no-one there to hear it, does it make a sound ?

Bit of a chicken and egg dilemma there as how did the peanut butter sandwich fall in the first place (or get there) if there's no one there to hear it fall 🤔

[TheCat]

'From ours to yours'

'To you and yours'

On social media at Xmas.

Me and my what?!

[Sue]

As in, come round to mine.

Mine 🤮

[Seabag]

Truss

[Nigello]

The absence of the final "ed/d" in words that have, until about four or so years ago, very definitely had them.

[BrandNewGuy]

From another thread: ?be on the right side of history?. Urgh! It's as if we're all inevitably on some lovely upward path to enlightenment. A fatuous reading of history, morality and 'progress'.

[SpringTime]

Woke

[Nigello]

Good job (as in well done but for middle America) - makes me cringe and annoyed at the same time.

[wordsworth]

Djokovic

[BrandNewGuy]

Vibrant

[KidKruger]

Fully Responsible

[Seabag]

Constipation

[diable rouge]

Super as a prefix, e.g. I'm super-happy!...

[KidKruger]

FJDGoose Wrote:

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> At the end of the day

Is that a list of words you find annoying ?!