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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    Chris (in last night's The Archers) talking to his wife about their daughter: "... Martha in her adorable gown...!" Not sure how relevant it is, but it didn't stand out as being at all odd to me...
    Lincolnshire
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    One of the only. Do you mean one of the few? Or do you mean the only?
    Single word would be Hermes or more widely, delivery.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    How does one adore a gown? Does it involve kneeling before it? Do you genuflect as you pass it?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Most of the above, plus Feb-you-ary for February and nucular for nuclear. I'm easily irritated.......
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Apropos of nothing ..... now there's a redundant phrase if ever there was one.

    Bee x
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    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    "This is nearly unique" - well it either is or it isn't.
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Many of the above mentioned plus the ever increasing "rewilding" - it doesn't make the slightest sense to me and is almost as irritating as "going forward".
    Our language and how we use it obviously changes over time but some common usage is, you know, like really really amaaazing  :D   Sorry  ;)  
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited May 2021
    I don’t watch TV since its been taken over by amateur singers, cooking, sewing, quiz games and other people junk, but caught a girl the other night saying ‘ oh! That reminds me of Wind of the willows’.
    Turnedover to a war documentary,  chap says ‘ As in Churchill’s speech, we’ll frighten them on the beaches’
    Where do they learn this stuff?     
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Planrts does not rhyme with pants
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    HydrayyynJa grates
    Clemaytis sounds like a disease
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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