Most Annoying Words 9

[CajunCenturion]

'Whatever,' Like, Totally Tops List of Most Annoying Words

For me, the most annoying word is 'like', like it appears in the like, title.
What word or catch phrase do you find most annoying?


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[Annihilannic]

:-D

Annihilannic.

 

[BadBigBen]

When in the restroom (lavatory, WC, loo, can, john, bathroom, etc.), the question should be:

To pee or not to pee...


Annihilannic, it could be perfectly fine to "Talk to a subject", if one is a King or Queen...

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[MeGustaXL]

Santa,

This is made even worse if leverage is pronounced the US way, to rhyme with "cleveridge"

Yes, you have it spot on...the mispronunciation that grips me is the US one that rhymes with "beverage".

I am trying to eradicate its use as a verb from my organisation, but some die hard colleagues insist on using it that way. They are also most resistant to my efforts to get them to pronounce "Leverage" to rhyme (correctly) with "Beaverage"

Chris

So you ride yourselves over the fields,
and you make all your animal deals,
and your wise men don't know how it feels...

Ian Anderson

 

[BadBigBen]

MeGustaXL - actually, the pronunciation of the word "leverage", is correct either way...

since it derives from the word LEVER, pronounciation: IPA: /?li?.v?/, /?l?.v?/
SAMPA: /li:"v@`/, /lE"v@`/

and this is also according to Mirriam-Webster Dictionary,
pronunciation of "leverage": \?le-v?-rij, ?l?-; ?lev-rij, ?l?v-\.





Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
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[flapeyre]

Just another of those divergences between British English and American English.

"Schedule" comes to mind. The Brits pronounce it "shed-yule"; we Americans somehow put a "k" sound in there: "sked-yule".

-- Francis
I'd like to change the world, but I can't find the source code.

 

[MeGustaXL]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the help

Now, can anyone help me stop these guys using that word as a verb, regardless of how it's pronounced?



Chris

So you ride yourselves over the fields,
and you make all your animal deals,
and your wise men don't know how it feels...

Ian Anderson

 

[SantaMufasa]

"Schedule" comes to mind. The Brits pronounce it "shed-yule"; we Americans somehow put a "k" sound in there: "sked-yule".

But, Francis, that's what they taught us in "shool". <grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[SamBones]

Anytime someone says "Bear with me", I get a picture of Yogi and Boo-Boo standing beside that person.

Similarly, whenever I hear someone say "Bear in mind...", I picture a little Grizzly bear inside their head, roaring and slashing with it's massive paws (while completely not paying attention to what they are saying at that moment).

 

[flapeyre]

...That's what they taught us in "shool". <grin>

Shome shool it ish.
</HumphreyBogart>

-- Francis
I'd like to change the world, but I can't find the source code.

 

[SamBones]

Shome shool it ish.
</HumphreyBogart>

"Sounds" more like Sean Connery to me.

 

[BadBigBen]

But MeGustaXL, it is a transitive verb...

excerpt from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Main Entry: leverage
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): leveraged; leverag·ing
Date: 1957

1 : to provide (as a corporation) or supplement (as money) with leverage; also : to enhance as if by supplying with financial leverage
2 : to use for gain : exploit &lt;shamelessly leverage the system to their advantage — Alexander Wolff&gt;

Flappereye - Yep, and the freaky thing is, that the pronounciation of the word &quot;schedule&quot; is almost everywhere the same except the UK... see:

http://www.forvo.com/word/schedule/

Ben
&quot;If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer...&quot;
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot;

 

[Guest_imported]

I hate the overuse of the word "basis"- everything is done on some kind of "basis" nowadays. Instead of having a "daily meeting" we meet on a "daily basis", and we don't have an annual holiday anymore, we go away on an "annual basis"

Jim Brown,
Tech writer and training consultant,
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
My time is GMT+2

“And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. (Chapman, Cleese et al, 1975)

 

[flapeyre]

I hate it when someone says that a person has "issues".

Periodicals have issues; people have problems.

-- Francis
I'd like to change the world, but I can't find the source code.

 

[SantaMufasa]

I dislike the use of "essentially" or "basically" as a conversational stalling device, much like "ya' know" or "uh".


Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[gbaughma]

I want to be a verb.

Preferred usage "Wow! That's a Gregtastic job on that web site!"

Unfortunately, I'm sure it would be:

"Jeez... you really Gregged that one up, didn't you?"

hehe



Just my 2¢

"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."

--Greg

http://parallel.tzo.com

 

[2ffat]

I'm already a verb: "Jim jimmied the lock." ;-)



James P. Cottingham
[sup]I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229![/sup]

 

[Annihilannic]

Gregtastic sounds more like an adjective to me.

Annihilannic.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Gregtastic sounds more like an adjective to me.

It's okay, he just Gregged it up a little bit. <grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[hjgoldstein]

I'm already a question:

"Howard can it be?"

 

[LeeMcCauslin]

I'll just stay over here in the shelter while this word storm rages.

"Dyin'? Boy, He can have this little life any time He wants to. Do Ya hear that? Are ya hearin' it? Come on. You're welcome to it, Ol' Timer. Let me know You're up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it... I'm just standin' in the rain talkin' to myself."