I do find many of the words or phrases mentioned here annoying. What bothers me more are grammatical errors by folks (often bright young people) who should know better. The ones I find most annoying–incorrect use of lay/lie, who/whom, and me/myself. I also get annoyed when words like disinterested/uninterested are used incorrectly so often that the incorrect usage eventually becomes the accepted usage. Maybe this annoys me because I’m old and I like rules.
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…and the misuse of your/you’re. Such misuse is rampant on Facebook.
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its / it’s
GB instead of UK
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Speaking on behalf of myself
Aren’t Great Britain and the United Kingdom slightly different though – as in, Great Britain is the island of Britain itself (England, Wales, Scotland), while the UK adds Northern Ireland?
So if I meant to leave out Ulster, I might reference Great Britain or simply Britain.
Needlessly expressing it as an equation:
GB = UK - NI
Exactly the point - but people often unknowingly refer to GB (or “Britain”) when they mean the entire country, the political entity – a slight to the Northern Irish, or at least their Unionists.
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Ohhhh, I see. Yeah, you’re right, they are often misused.
It’s all England to me.
Or if half the of Scots have their say, some day the “LK” (the Little Kingdom of England and Wales).
“Evidence-based.” Every time I hear that term, it’s being used by someone in an attempt to justify what I consider to be bad public policy.
A common one that jumps out often is using an apostrophe to indicate the plural. I even catch myself doing it when typing fast. I see that everywhere.
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