At this moment in time...(expressions that P*** us off)

[hhinner]

Ooh! d-m look at what DDD just did. ^^

[dtaai-maai]

Ooh! d-m look at what DDD just did. ^^

I'll let him off as it's a slightly different use of the word.

"Just saying..." however - borderline!

[dtaai-maai]

My latest moan is "I guess" - I'm hearing it an awful lot these days. What's wrong with "I suppose"?

[Dannie Boy]

My latest moan is "I guess" - I'm hearing it an awful lot these days. What's wrong with "I suppose"?

I’m not sure, but I guess that some people prefer it?

[thecolonel]

Such and such..... "is living his best life!"

Where the fook did that come from?

It's shite!


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[Benroon]

Closing a sentence with "end of".

OMG yes - my knuckles twitch everytime I hear this !

But any Blue Sky Thinking, Lets Touch Base, Duck Eggs in a Row, is enough to make a grown man strike his gran - and anyone that starts a reply with 'So...' should be relieved of their teeth !

[DDD]

Another view of this is words I disliked that I now like. “OK” works in multiple languages, including Thai and gets me past many problems.

I looked up the Etymology:
originated as an abbreviation of orl korrekt , a jokey misspelling of 'all correct' which was current in the US in the 1830s. The oldest written references result from its use as a slogan by the Democratic party during the American Presidential election of 1840.

[dtaai-maai]

Another view of this is words I disliked that I now like. “OK” works in multiple languages, including Thai and gets me past many problems.

I looked up the Etymology:
originated as an abbreviation of orl korrekt , a jokey misspelling of 'all correct' which was current in the US in the 1830s. The oldest written references result from its use as a slogan by the Democratic party during the American Presidential election of 1840.

Wow. I've just double checked that (no offence!), as I always assumed OK was simply an abbreviation of okay. Not so, as explained above.

[HHTel]

Don't you just hate it when you've known something all your life as being 100% correct only for someone to show you've got it wrong!

[dtaai-maai]

Susie Dent, the Dictionary Corner lady from Countdown, obviouslt follows this forum...

No disrespect but... Susie Dent shares words public want axed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65634829

The top 10 are:

1. Going forward
2. No disrespect, but…
3. 'like' as a filler
4. I wanted to reach out
5. I'm not gonna lie
6. Basically
7. Let's go offline
8. 'So' at the start of a sentence
9. The 'optics' of something
10. My bad

[sateeb]

Susie Dent, the thinking mans crumpet.

[dtaai-maai]

^^Absolutely! She's as beautiful now as she was when she started some 30-odd years ago...

[dtaai-maai]

"The proof is in the pudding"

No it chuffin' isn't!! I hear this so often and it always makes me fume! It makes no sense at all. What proof are we talking about? That would be the proof OF the pudding, which is in the eating... <deep breath> rant over, relief all round.

[HHTel]

It used to be "The proof of the pudding is in the eating!"

That makes more sense.

[dtaai-maai]

Yes, I thought that's what I was saying...