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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    I’m another ‘dye-sect’. I think maybe it is a generational thing.

    I must use that CRAFT acronym the very first chance I get😀 More effective I’d imagine  said in a suitably posh accent. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Hard A much more effective than soft. Sounds less like crocheting toilet roll cosies.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • HeliosHelios Posts: 232
    Hard A as in ??
    If you mean as in the pronunciation of the word ‘Craft’ I don’t think you’re allowed into John Lewis if you use a soft A.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited January 2022
    Barth🛀
    Dunno. I've wandered around JL but I've never actually spoken to anyone.
    Posh vowels are different to those used by mere  mortals . It's one of the ways they identify each other.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Crafft = B&M
    Crarft = John Lewis
    Rutland, England
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    BenCotto said:
    Crafft = B&M
    Crarft = John Lewis
    ClAss=John Lewis Partnership
    Devon.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Yes, rudeness and lack of good manners. For example, someone asks for an ID of something, no please or thank you. Not all by any manner or means but the lack stands out. Fair winds me up it does. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Athalete is one that really winds me up. 
    Since when was an 'a' added to that word?  :/

    It's not as if it's a difficult word to pronounce...
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think that kind of mispronunciation is probably down to poor spelling/reading skills.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Probably @B3. Bl**dy annoying though  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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