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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Discombobulated  - a truly horrible word.
    Banter
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I’m with you, Philippa. I can’t stand discombobulated either - a silly, manufactured word that seems to be said with a touch of superiority, as if the speaker is to be congratulated for having such an exotic vocabulary.
    Rutland, England
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    "One of the only"...  is just stupid, but is appearing a lot on the radio.  What's wrong with "one of the few"?
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    'Artic' when referencing the ends of the Earth rather than a truck!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited 26 February
    Do you remember the old 'NO HAWKING OR SPITTING ' signs. As a child, I didn't realise that hawking meant selling. You can imagine what I thought it meant in relation to spitting😝.
    Then ,on the trains, there were 'do not lean out of the window' signs. These were always changed to do not clean soot off the window.
    To let signs were always changed to toilet.
    Another one was a hoarding advert like a postcard with wine drinkers on holiday that went: 'Having a wonderful wine ' These always had .'wish you were beer' added underneath.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Engage with. Someone kept using it on the Today programme this morning. The radio was silenced, I became disengaged! 😊
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • WaterbutWaterbut Posts: 344
    Penultimate is the one for me. Extant I hate the most. Especially when told something is extant by your boss so you bin it.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited 27 February
    “ 'Having a wonderful wine ' These always had .'wish you were beer' added underneath.”

    I recollect sending postcards saying “The weather is here. Wish you were lovely.”

    I remember an advertisement on the Tube saying “80% of top clergy take The Times.” Underneath was added ‘the other 20% buy it’.

    My number 1 annoyance at the moment is the Tui ad saying ‘Live Happy’. Just because a word ends in a y doesn’t make it an adverb.




    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The trouble is, few posters are paper these days unless they're too high  for refinement. You can't make improvements to those sliding electric jobs.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Mindful 
    Live and Breathe Every Day  
    Unlearn

    ( All the above used on a local Community  web site )

    Distressfull Images     ( TV News presenters favourite phrase when reporting on war scenes, famine victims etc. )


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