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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • Chris-P-BaconChris-P-Bacon Posts: 943
    The phrase "right now" I'm in the garden right now. Right now it's raining here..etc.
    What's wrong with "currently" or "at the moment"?
    Also, sticking "ized" on the end of words. Sexualized, normalized, hospitalized etc etc. Just saying them makes me gring my teeth.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't like the z. I use the s form wherever possible. ise not ize
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    Super tricky (for example). WTF is wrong with very tricky, really tricky,  especially tricky or particularly tricky?

    Yes I know it's already been mentioned earlier in this thread but it's the one that really gets my goat, especially when older people start using it. I actually heard Chris Beardshaw using it the other day on GQT. So I'm mentioning it again. Aaaargh!
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    In the past week I have twice read on the BBC website of people throwing “rocks” - at firefighters on Bonfire Night and at food delivery drivers. Maybe, but I bet they were actually stones. Similarly in reporting about Ukraine power cuts the talk was of flashlights rather than torches. Perhaps the BBC needs reminding it is B for British not A for American.
    Rutland, England
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Leverage is another one!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    "love" has lost it's meaning.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    "Gender" has lost it's meaning.  

    Language progresses (regresses?)
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095

    Does anyone count user's number of posts?

    Is there a top 10?

    Does anyone rate them by helpfulness?
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Fire said:
    "Henry adored his wife" . Seems fair enough to me.
    Anne Boleyn didn't agree.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The apostrophe is losing its meaning as well.
    Rutland, England
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