The 10 most irritating expressions used by Britons
Posted by mortal
lol "at the end of the day"
Reminds of that comedy bit someone did comparing footballers and rugby players ( cant remember who it was ).
What really bugs me is when people say "Do you know what I mean?"
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Reminds of that comedy bit someone did comparing footballers and rugby players ( cant remember who it was ).
What really bugs me is when people say "Do you know what I mean?"
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
innit, chet.
Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it
the word like when it is used in the wrong way. for example: i was angry and he was like so happy. irritates the hell out of me when people talk to you andd use it every second word
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Add in the expression 'touch base'
I had a week's work experience in a telecomms company back in 6th form and one of the salespeople used this at a minimum of 3 times every sentence and it drove me barmy by the end.
I had a week's work experience in a telecomms company back in 6th form and one of the salespeople used this at a minimum of 3 times every sentence and it drove me barmy by the end.
Isn't that....when you kiss a girl....and liked it. 
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car . At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. I f you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP .When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP .
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP, so.......... . it is time to shut UP!
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/17/2008 11:50PM by mortal.
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this .
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car . At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. I f you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP .When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP .
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP , for now my time is UP, so.......... . it is time to shut UP!
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Yep having gone through learning processes for French, German Russian and English (Bulgarian being native to me as well) I would say English is easiest by a very long way....which is not a bad thing of course
English is actually an easy language to learn hence why pretty much everywhere you go people will how at a least a basic understanding. I heard that Spanish is the most spoken language in the world (may not be true), but I am certain that in those countrys who use it know English as well
I'd have thought Chinese would be the most spoken language
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were talking about languages spoken around the world, not just in its native country 
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I love it when John Madden ends every sentence with the words he started it and then adds "and that's what that's all about" to it.
And don't know what I love about John Madden, but he makes me feel smart. (Makes me feel like a rocket surgeon)
"Great football is about great football. You have great football players playing play great football. That's the best kind of football to play. You have regular football players playing great football, but that's just regular great football and not great great football - you wanna see great great football and that's that's all about".
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And don't know what I love about John Madden, but he makes me feel smart. (Makes me feel like a rocket surgeon)
"Great football is about great football. You have great football players playing play great football. That's the best kind of football to play. You have regular football players playing great football, but that's just regular great football and not great great football - you wanna see great great football and that's that's all about".
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS
Guimengo Wrote:
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> "Get in!" <-- that one annoys me :P
>
> John Madden is hilariously bad, hahaha. "In the
> end, the team that scores the most points wins!"
> all in that drunken voice tone is just great.
"Here's a man that sees better with his contacts in"
"Here's a man that goes faster when he runs"
"You gotta see. Because if you can't see you don't know what you're looking at"
Imagine John Maddeen, the master of the obvious, commenting a NASCAR race.
"He made a left turn there. He made a left turn there. He made a left turn there. He made a left turn there. And if he keeps making left turns, he might have a chance to win the race ..."
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS
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> "Get in!" <-- that one annoys me :P
>
> John Madden is hilariously bad, hahaha. "In the
> end, the team that scores the most points wins!"
> all in that drunken voice tone is just great.
"Here's a man that sees better with his contacts in"
"Here's a man that goes faster when he runs"
"You gotta see. Because if you can't see you don't know what you're looking at"
Imagine John Maddeen, the master of the obvious, commenting a NASCAR race.
"He made a left turn there. He made a left turn there. He made a left turn there. He made a left turn there. And if he keeps making left turns, he might have a chance to win the race ..."
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS
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