Being upset by words people use?

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Yes:

* "Hence why"
* "Like" as in "..and then I was like, 'whatever!'"
* Prefixing a request with "If you could.." and then not providing a consequence to compliment the "if", eg: "If you could send me the email with the stats from last month", as opposed to "If you could send me the email with the stats from last month, I would appreciate it greatly", the latter of which would be correct.

OP, I'm so sorry. All I ever say is "Anyways", I know.

I hate the word panties.

What do you think of "knickers"? Personally, it grosses me out when I hear people say "knickers".

Yeah kind of, because it sounds like the "N" word. I hate panties because it has the word "pant" in it which makes me think of leering pedophiles.

Yeah so do I. I'm glad it's rarely used in this country. I can't stand it. It's just so.. well, childish.

I hadn't though of it that way before, but yeah, it really does sound like the "N" word; yet another reason to shun the use of "knickers" in casual conversation, then.

Edit: It shall henceforth be known as the "K" word.

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Oops, I poo pooed in my panties. A 3 year old said that to me once.

I hate when people say ''Colchsster'' instead of ''Colchester''. They seem to miss out the E. Also when people say ''Chomlsford'' instead of ''Chelmsford''.

Also, ''onvelope'' instead of ''envelope'', ''scon'' instead of ''scone'', ''cous cos'' instead of ''cous cous'', and various other words what I can't think of.

I know people without different accents to me pronounce words differently.

the phrase "have a good one" or when a person refers to themselves in the plural when describing something that person has done-like "we went to the store" when I know it was only that person-this isn't Queen Victoria time when she would proclaim royally "WE ARE NOT AMUSED"

I would probably annoy most of you, because my spelling and my pronuciation is really bad because of my deafness.
Do I get an exemption??

I also say "anyway", when I change topic.

The only word usage that bothers me is when people use a negitive to say a possitive.

Like when someone says things like..".Isnt that nice??" When they really mean "that is nice". People do this alot.
This really confuses me.

Jojo

"snitzel", or worse, "snitchel" instead of schnitzel.

What about this?

In a little while it is not long before we are almost starting to get closer to the point.
(translated from norwegian)

Whenever I hear "knickers" I think of those wool or coarse fabric knee-length, buckled-just-below-the-knee trousers that little boys wore about 1900, just before they became big boys: there was a regular "rite of passage", boys were growing up when they got to switch to long pants. I read too much fiction set about that time when I was growing up, and it's permanently grooved. I always get that mental picture when I hear/see it, and I _know_ it's not appropriate. I guess I'm not so much upset with the other person, as annoyed with myself for not being adaptable to the change in meaning. I'm _very_ adaptable when it comes to the Elizabethan English used in the KJV Bible, or at Renaissance Faires, but I can't adapt to a change in usage from the last hundred years!

Since "envelope" is French in origin then "onvelope" is the phonetically correct pronunciation. As ever, nothing is as it seems with our mongrel tongue.

When I was in junior high they made a brief re-appearance as a fashion for girls. I got some red black and white plaid ones. They were hideous but of course I didn't realize that then.