Top 10 Most Annoying English Prases

Suffolk



Joined: 31/08/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 18:59

Found this quite amusing as we are guilty of using some of these from time to time!



http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-10-Most-Annoying-English-Phrases





Any thoughts on others or NC's top ten? - i.e. "Yavas yavas"

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 19:07

Whatever.



Tootie

Suffolk



Joined: 31/08/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 19:18

Upps sorry!



"With all due respect"



Typical Londoner's - dropped our 'H's in P(h)rases

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 19:24

Msg 3 Suffolk...



"Dont worry about it"



"At the end of the day"



"Its not rockect science"

But...



"Know one is perfect"



Tootie

Mindy



Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1210

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 19:54

Your'e having a Giraffe (Jeeraf) Laugh



Talk to the hand cos the face ain't listening..... agghh!!!



Do I looked bothered....

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 20:01

As my old uncle Percy used to say "if that ball comes over here again, i'll put a bl@@dy knife through it..."

Pogle


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 1536

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 20:08

NC's No 1 " This is Cyprus" usually accompanied by a shug.

Jeannie


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Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 20:15

NN - your old uncle Percy didn't have a relative named Mrs Lawrence who used to live up our road, did he



Not a phrase, but something I find very annoying is people who pronouce the letter H as 'haitch', rather than 'aitch'.

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:23

To be fair.

laptagal


Joined: 28/05/2008
Posts: 549

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:25

"and I'm like" "and he's like" - and the current trend on TV to say everything twice.

jimbo


Joined: 12/07/2007
Posts: 150

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:34

so i turned round and said

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:37

'i'm the type of person who......'



LIKE I CARE!!!!



DD

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:37

the constant use of the word 'like...'



DD

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:38

and....'ya naw wot i mean like....' said with thick cockney accent!



DD

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:39

You know

Basically.

Coachie



Joined: 29/07/2008
Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 21:46

"didnt we dear" "Hellooo any one theree." "like I said before" "and ,err"

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 22:05

....starting a sentence with 'I mean'......or trying to justify something by saying ' I'm sorry but....' when they're clearly not sorry and generally there's nothing to be sorry about. Also 'we shall see' said in a knowing way (when the sayer has no clue what the outcome will be of any particular situation arising in converasation - usually the CyProb). Rant over (for now)



S

yorgozlu



Joined: 16/06/2009
Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 22:17

Who cares... ...Who gives a shit...

Dusterbruce


Joined: 03/08/2007
Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 22:23

'Tomorrow'

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 22:24

Where's my bazooka!



Richard

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 22:36

"I'm not being funny, but ...."

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 22:36

AND ANOTHER THING....... people interrupting my bl..dy conversations at the bar when they have clearly not been invited to join in and are nothing to do with me or my compatriots! Mind your own blinkin business!

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 22:51

In my opinion.

Ailletoo


Joined: 24/01/2009
Posts: 1003

Message Posted:
25/10/2009 23:38

Am I missing a subtle play on words, or does one mean PHRASES?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 01:05

Give me a break!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 01:07

Whatever!!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 01:08

Where's my deeds?

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 01:09

The mods are not consistent!

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 07:22

In the local supermarkets.



"thank you and have a nice day" (not)



Illeli accepted.

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 08:33

'At the present point ın time....' - i.e. - NOW!

Geejay


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 475

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 08:41

There's no point in me voting !

or

I can't be bothered to vote !

or

My vote won't change anything !

catalkoykid


Joined: 15/02/2009
Posts: 1190

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 08:43

Tenakoutou, you beat me to it, 'at this moment in time' is my all time screamer.

bridie


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 308

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 08:49

Cool.

Chill out.

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 09:28

AND ANOTHER THING...... using ANY Cockney rhyming slang when you are clearly not Cockney and when it is obvious that the listener isn't either.



I'll get me coat

TopTen


Joined: 15/04/2009
Posts: 1246

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 10:18

" FREE " When they mean THREE

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 10:51

"Having said that" (in order to continue a long, boring monologue).

"My lips are sealed" (suggesting that the speaker has insider knowledge and that you know bugger-all).

"To die for" (ridiculous over exageration).

CJtill


Joined: 02/05/2008
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 10:57

"with the best will in the world" makes me scream!

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 10:57

keep this to yourself as I'm not supposed to say anything

eljay


Joined: 15/07/2009
Posts: 21

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 11:03

I'm not one to talk, but!!!

thetwirlys


Joined: 11/06/2009
Posts: 43

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 11:12

" Absolutely"

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 11:30

"That's for me to know and you to find out" - when I am desperate to know what's going on.

Aysesdaddy



Joined: 21/03/2009
Posts: 392

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 11:31

"personally, myself". Doesn't personal mean myself?

Also I hate someone calling me "mate" when I don't even no them.

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 15:38

"You have to stand up, for what you stood for"



"wake up and smell the coffee"





"May I drop down dead"

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 16:01

I'll go to foot of our stairs !! ( WHY )

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 16:04

my mum used to say "dont look at me like that" so I would look at the floor, so she said, "look at me when I'm talking to you" dohhhhh

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 16:12

"Wait till your father gets home"



Nothing happened when me Dad got home.



J

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 16:41

AND ANOTHER THING........ "well..... to cut a long story short....."



and "we had hailstones the size of golf balls" (didn't we?)

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 16:53

and " well let me put it like this"..... usually meaning "I'm such a smartar*e that I won't tell you the truth but will concoct some fabrication around the facts that makes me look clever and amusing"

JKSLapta


Joined: 08/06/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 17:18

"and he went" instead of "and he said" or "and she goes" instead of "and she said"

come_on_aylin


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 908

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 17:46

When you've pointed out a problem to a builder/worker and they say 'no problem'. What they mean is that it isn't a problem for them and they have no intention of fixing it. Yarin also means any time in the future but not today.



Ending a sentence with but....

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 17:54

............................And Bobs your Uncle (No he's not!)

Suffolk



Joined: 31/08/2008
Posts: 222

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 19:19

And to possibly wrap this up -



"Jesus wept"



"For crying out loud"



Thats it because .....



"I'm going to see a man about a dog"!

beeches


Joined: 17/03/2009
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 19:47

'Please do not hesitate to contact me'

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:08

How's it hanging?

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:10

if your granny had bxlls she,d be your grandad ,

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:11

Give it a rest!

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:12

I will ring you back when you know they won't.

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:13

AND a final gripe from pedants corner Baspinar...... "They"... as in "They" are coming to fix the pipes in the morning. Who the blazes are "They" - the Massachusets Institute of Technology? or "They" have made significant advances in the race for a cure for cancer - would "They" be the pikeys who have moved into the apartment upstairs? - I'm sure they'd be most grateful for the dosh from the Nobel Institute.



Must feed the cats now.

Lambousa Gordon


Joined: 03/11/2007
Posts: 1992

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:39

Verbally: using "of" instead of "have" as in "I should have...".



There is no verb "to of" - though I stand to be corrected by Pedants' Corner, Başpinar - please note the apostrophe - if I'm wrong.

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:45

I have been banned from that Cyprus 44 again.



What did I say.



What did I do.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 20:51

Message 59 - this drives me mad, too.



Also, "I'm fed up of............" rather than "I'm fed up with................"



Apostrophe also duly noted - why don't people get this and also continually use the "wandering apostrophe", i.e. potatoe's, tomatoe's.



Pedants' corner Mark II - Alsancak/Bury St Edmunds.

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 21:21

El Gordo - the corner belonging to Pedant...... Pedant's corner. Terribly sorry for the howler. As you are now welcome to join me beneath the only surviving lamppost (lampost?) in Baspinar it has become the plural. Pedants' corner. See you soon old chap.



S

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 21:34

Jetski - I feel I should offer a (pedantic) apology here. As you say, I was under the impression that there was more than one Pedant.



Sorry

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 21:47

Jeannie - thanks, although my initial offering was also correct in that the apostrophe "isn't normally needed if the noun is in the adjectival, rather than possessive sense"..... eg Builders Backside. Just a matter of taste I presume ;0)



S



Quotes indicate a quote other than my good self. Can't have plagiarism aswell as pedantry on here can we?

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 21:57

Jetski



Many thanks for your reply.



No, we definitely wouldn't want plagiairsm on here - haven't we got enough to contend with?



Interestingly, we have a young doctor working at the GP practice where I am a humble medical secretary. He informed me recently that William Shakespeare plagiarised the entire works of Christopher Marlow (?spelling). He apparently attended the same college at Cambridge University.



Sorry all - I am making a very feble attempt to sound remotely intelligent here (unsuccessfuly, I fear?)



J

Magbs


Joined: 26/02/2009
Posts: 278

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 22:18

"Rate of speed" - speed IS a rate.



"Same difference"



"Irregardless"

nannycyprus


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 22:48

"Ahh bless"

jock1



Joined: 06/01/2008
Posts: 3786

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 22:51

Where about in England do you come from???? What?????

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
26/10/2009 22:59

'Quite unique'. Impossible!!!!!!!!!



Richard

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 10:12

'Hello, I'm very pleased to meet you!'



How can one be 'pleased' when one doesn't even know the pr!ck from 'a bar of soap'?

Lambousa Gordon


Joined: 03/11/2007
Posts: 1992

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 10:32

S - how goes your jetskiing?



I'm thrilled to be invited to join such an august body.



Is there a Boss Pedant; or is he styled Top Pedant or Pedant-in-Chief? Is he fairly or just plain unique? Can I apply for election thereto?



With all due respect how is the constitution framed? Don't worry about it if it's not in place yet but at the end of the day it's not rocket science to make one. To be fair, personally, myself I'm the sort of person who can normally work without one. Having said that, I mean, sorry, but in my honest opinion we probably do need one. Certainly, the Trouble-and-Strife thinks we're havin' a giraffe if we don't so we probably need at least a quorum of free because as we know no one is perfect and even with the best will in the world this is Cyprus after all.



Having said that, to cut a long story short, let me put it like this: I'm not bothered.



Keep this to yourself but the association will be absolutely to die for.



Have a nice day,



The Fat One

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 11:18

Been there done it and got the T-shirt. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I hate that one

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 11:36

Peter Sellers' 'Party Polıtıcal Speech' was brilliant:



'My friends, in the light of present day development, let me say, right away, that I do not consider existing conditions likely. On the contrary, I have always regarded them as subjects of the utmost responsibility, and shall ever continue to do so.



If what I am saying is challenged, then I am only too ready to meet such a challenge, for these are problems that are facing us all - we must build; but we must build surely!'



Hear, hear!

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 11:40

I think we can all agree that these are the precise sentiments continually echoed and expressed by successive TRNC governments!



Hooray!

IngridL


Joined: 20/03/2009
Posts: 368

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 14:13

Darling

kinglouie


Joined: 09/10/2009
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 14:24

1966

alot of us guys from north of hadrians wall find this number quite irritating!!

HAPPY FEET


Joined: 18/07/2008
Posts: 416

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 15:13

Kids /teenagers who try and speak in a Jamaican accent Innit !!!!!!

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 15:14

Matey.......

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
27/10/2009 20:41

all right pal

martin-wbh


Joined: 24/09/2008
Posts: 39

Message Posted:
28/10/2009 07:46

From builders,



You have got to be fair as I'm not making any money from this ! ! !

Jaybee


Joined: 11/11/2008
Posts: 228

Message Posted:
28/10/2009 08:43

What about the"good old days" during the war(do people like suffering or have I missed something)

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
28/10/2009 09:18

......"and that's why people have left this forum and do not post here anymore!"

jimbo


Joined: 12/07/2007
Posts: 150

Message Posted:
28/10/2009 21:21

i didnt see nothing,..... means you must of seen something.

wendy2428


Joined: 24/10/2009
Posts: 7

Message Posted:
29/10/2009 12:50

When you tell someone something and they say......"No! Really?"

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
29/10/2009 14:15

Very popular in North Wales so use accent-



"If I were to tell the truth"



meaning I haven't so far, if ever!

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
29/10/2009 14:18

Going Forward



beloved by all our customers, buyers and merchandisers.

What happened to-

In the future

The next catalogue

Next month

Next year

?

NanaJan



Joined: 15/10/2009
Posts: 90

Message Posted:
29/10/2009 14:36

Asking how a patient is in hospital and being told "Comfortable" when you know jolly well they are anything but comfortable. The truth please hospital staff.

Geejay


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 475

Message Posted:
29/10/2009 18:22

The penalty clause is your safety net.



TRNC law is based on UK law (so don't worry).

jimmyG


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 900

Message Posted:
30/10/2009 15:28

Do I get an award for ?000 postings (keeps going up in multiples of 1000)

boglefan



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 511

Message Posted:
30/10/2009 15:50

For sure!!!!!

keithcaley



Joined: 13/06/2008
Posts: 2521

Message Posted:
30/10/2009 21:28

"Must of" - presumably a mis-transcription of "Must 'ave", itself a contraction of "Must have"

jimbo, msg 83, please note!

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
30/10/2009 23:15

"I know" or "yes,yes" - used as an inerruption while you're talking. At least give the person a chance to blinkin finish what the're saying!!



When interupted like this I normally just shut up mid sentence, after all, what's the point in continuing?

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
30/10/2009 23:52

Jetski. Yes Yes, I know what you mean! ))

pegmar


Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 10

Message Posted:
31/10/2009 22:16

When people say ..." return back"

Sorry I really cringe at this

lovelife


Joined: 07/07/2007
Posts: 231

Message Posted:
31/10/2009 23:05

Oh.....My......God



Do you know what I mean



I don't wish to appear rude...but



24/7, sends my blood pressure off the richter scale!!



I'm fine, when clearly you are not.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
01/11/2009 09:09

What dozens of British people have told me on this board (in vain!): "Get a life..!"