The 10 most irritating expressions used by Britons

1. At the end of the day.
2. Fairly unique.
3. I personally.
4. At this moment in time.
5. With all due respect.
6. Absolutely.
7. It's a nightmare.
8. Shouldn't of.
9. 24/7.
10. It's not rocket science.

As I personally see it, fellow forumers, and with all due respect to the Oxford Dictionary researchers who compiled the list, at this moment in time it doesn't take a rocket scientist, even one working 24/7, to figure out at the end of the day that many Britons are over-using phrases that once were fairly unique but, due to over-use have become linguistic nightmares. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Even though I probably shouldn't of bothered, it's a nightmare, absolutely.

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i have used all of those today at work :\

Sim

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I rest my case lol

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Woo, I only use 'absolutely' with any regularity! That makes me 90% less irritating than most Britons! (um, apparently)

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Absolutely.

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and here i thought it was just "hello"

Number 8 is a crime against the Queen's English.

Shouldn't 'Alright?' as a greeting be on there too?

With all due respect, I personally use all of them.

Except number 8, because I learnt to read unlike many others living on this island.

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I personally rather like the expression 24/7, and I even use it quite often, through all the Dutch terms.

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Ahh, I yearn for the days when Ron Atkinson would use all of those within 30 seconds of each other in his match analysis, as well as 'early doors' and 'spotter's badge'.
It was great when he worked with Brian Moore about ten years back.
Now there's Clive Tyldesley and David 'Lizazaru' Pleat...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/12/2008 12:52PM by salvasirignano.

gareth Wrote:
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> Shouldn't 'Alright?' as a greeting be on there
> too?

maybe, except it isn't 'alright' it's 'alreet!'

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1. At the end of the day. - never used it
2. Fairly unique. - deffo never used it
3. I personally. - used that
4. At this moment in time. - used it
5. With all due respect. - only when I'm doing an ironic taking the piss out of someone, for instance "With all due respect Gav, you are a fat b*****d"
6. Absolutely. - nope never said it
7. It's a nightmare. - nope
8. Shouldn't of. - yep
9. 24/7. - nope
10. It's not rocket science. - never used that either!


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The 10 overused words by F1 drivers in 2008

1. For sure
2. Encouraging progress
3. We'll have to wait and see
4. We have a good strategy for tomorrow
5. The race is long
6. The team did a great job
7. Unfortunately
8. On the bubble
9. Honestly
10.Problems

“For sure the team did a great job.
We had an encouraging progress but unfortunately, hydraulics problems kept us on the bubble today,
But honestly, we have a good strategy for tomorrow and the race is long, so
we'll have to wait and see."

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/12/2008 03:29PM by Bruninho.

I say "It's not rocket surgery" and see if anyone else notices.

For Sure is used way too much in F1, as Bruno said, by rightly placing it at the top of his list. It should be banned!

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"I think so.."

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Obviously has crept in a lot this year too in press conferences.

I thought Brits used "lovely" quite a whole lot

I thought it was "More tea Vicar?"

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As G.W.Bush said: 'It makes me feel like a rocket surgeon'.

Or in the words of the immortal John Madden: 'You need to see, because if you can't see, then you don't know what you're looking at'.

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