words that make you grit your teeth

[dex]

"Invite" as a noun. This one drives me up a tree, and given the work that I do, I fight the battle against it *constantly*.

"Massclusive"--referring to the popularization of designer label items (handbags, clothes, accessories, etc.)

[shootingstar]

Got nothin' new to add here.

Overuse of F word and "like" is tiresome. Hard to even want to listen to a speaker who uses either of these words for nearly every sentence.

[Geonz]

Driving home from Colorado a couple days ago I found a public radio station and the guy was doing a show about Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon and speaker and author ... and a primary theme of the show was the incredible importance of reading and education.
The guy doing the show, however, kept referring to "John Hopkins" hospital. GRRRRRR~!~! Education is important but you can't get the name of the hospital right? Talk about sending the message "Education is important - but we're going to be hopelessly ignorant anyway!"

[LBTC]

Driving home from Colorado a couple days ago I found a public radio station and the guy was doing a show about Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon and speaker and author ... and a primary theme of the show was the incredible importance of reading and education.
The guy doing the show, however, kept referring to "John Hopkins" hospital. GRRRRRR~!~! Education is important but you can't get the name of the hospital right? Talk about sending the message "Education is important - but we're going to be hopelessly ignorant anyway!"

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

[SadieKate]

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

That would be Johns Hopkins.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/

[SadieKate]

And yet the F-word was a good old Elizabethan verb!

At the moment, I am angered by any word used in a pre-recorded phone message. Both our home phone line and my business line are on the Do No Call Registry and yet the friggin' idiots call them anyway.

Oh yeah, and "very unique".

I actually like word play. My English teacher dad always used oderarmdeunderant and irrigerated the lawn.

[Zen]

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

Maybe that's a cheap knock-off or the walk-in clinic at the drug store

[SadieKate]

Think of how much money they save by providing only one John . . . . . .

[roadie gal]

Wow, this really set off a firestorm...

I thought of another one that makes me want to scream: disrespect used as a VERB. It's an adverb, damn it. "He treated me with disrespect" or "He treated me disrespectfully" NOT "He disrespected me". AAaaaaarrggh!

[Geonz]

I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....

It's Johns Hopkins... I'm sure there are sites google will find that get it wrong, too (or, *if* there were a plain ol' john hopkins, then the guy had the wrong hospital.).

It's the errors aand variations that make the language unclear and confusing that bother me (so I prefer tenacity to stick-to-it-ive-ness, too).

[LBTC]

Ah, many of these irritate me from time to time. In casual conversation, most of my friends and associates, or even I(!), will use some variation listed here, just for effect. No problem there. And in a post in a forum such as this, the grammar and pronunciation isn't all that important to me. Occasionally, it can be confusing, and I hate it when I've included some typo that makes it appear that I don't know the correct word...and don't notice until it's too late to edit.

It is publications and news broadcasts that I wish would get it right!

The sports player did not miss a game because he has a groin. Everyone has a groin! He missed the game because he has a groin injury!

There is no such thing as stick-to-it-iveness. The word is tenacity! Good gravy!!

Gosh, those are just the first two that come to mind. If I think of more, I'll share.

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[ttaylor508]

"FRICKEN" instead the "f-word" ... Half the time when people say FRICKEN, it sounds so much like the F-word, you might as well have just said it....

[SouthernBelle]

"FRICKEN" instead the "f-word" ... Half the time when people say FRICKEN, it sounds so much like the F-word, you might as well have just said it....

I personally like friggin'

It keeps me from really cussing when I'm angry. Or mad, as in insane.

[cyclinnewbie]

I'm coming in a tad late here, but here goes...

People who interject R's into normal words, ie: Warshington, warsh the winduhs, etc.

Woof instead of wolf.

Ain't...I use it occasionally, but only in one or two sayings I use to make a point.

Overuse of the F word, and overuse of the word "like". I'm so over it...

Any word that is slurred or mumbled....my 14 year old has suddenly lost the ability to speak clearly. The kid mumbles EVERY word that escapes his mouth. Drives me NUTS.

Mammiogram. It's MAMMOGRAM. sheesh....

I seen...I just don't know where people learn to talk.

Geeze can you tell I was raised by a British mother who taught me to enunciate precisely? (I don't always, but I still like clear, appropriate speech).

<climbin down off'n mah soapbox>

[mimitabby]

oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. the prostrate gland EEEEK!