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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Same thing @pansyface 😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'm sure Ive heard "ath-er-lete" on the BBC over the last few weeks.
    Barrrrth for the thing you have a bath in - no no no no no! Short A! I remember when I was quite young, 4 or 5, my mother getting irate over someone on kids' TV saying bath with an R in it.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    pansyface said:
    New-queue-lar.

    That one gets right up my nose. I once turned off an episode of Horizon because the narrator (not the scientists) kept saying it that way.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    edited February 2022
    Are the affaleets dem ones that do the runnin, jumpin or frowin, @Fairygirl
    East Lancs
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    All of them @Biglad ;)
    Ooh that was lucky.. I was just in time to 5th flag the lovely kristina who seems to have a mission to house students everywhere in the world.... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I think "uptick" has been mentioned before - but I heard it twice in one interview last week.  Yuk.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I don't like the use of the word "look" when it is said in reponse to a question posed by an interviewer on TV or radio.  It sounds confrontational and rude!  (Probably just reflects the interviewee's character!)
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    I'm hating the phrase 'that's a really good question' at the moment.  Particularly as those that say it tend not to answer it.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Yviestevie said:
    I'm hating the phrase 'that's a really good question' at the moment.  Particularly as those that say it tend not to answer it.
    Yes.  Why don't they just come clean and say what they mean......"That's a very awkward question which I've no intention of actually answering but I'll just waffle my way round it and hope you don't notice ".
    Come back Jeremy Paxman  :D
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're playing for time when they do that 'look' or similar. Gives them time to think up another excuse  ;)
    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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