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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited December 2022
    Gosh always looks like good sense of humour to me ( GSOH) Perving at lonely hearts columns will do that.
    I suppose it's all online now. Photographic to go with poetic licence. 
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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Draw?? Why did I write that! I meant jaw.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I saw jaw. Adult literacy will do that. You tend to see what was meant rather than what was written!
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    When did 'bad actors ' stop meaning people  who couldn't  act?
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  • McRazzMcRazz Posts: 440
    'Epic' when used totally out of context to describe something, like a new phone deal...

    'Pacific' instead of 'Specific'...

    'Anythink' instead of 'Anything'...

    'To be honest / To be fair' although harmless in my eyes it suggests a lack of integrity (and yes, i'm guilty of using these more often then i'd like to admit, to be honest!!!)

    I'm not a grammar/punctuation pedant but even these make me wince.

    Apologies if these have been mentioned, its a long thread so i couldn't pacifically look through all the posts, but i didn't see anythink, to be honest. 
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I'm sure I've moaned about this somewhere before, but...

    In my opinion you can't "rise to a crescendo" or "reach a crescendo".  You can reach a climax, or crescendo to a climax - but crescendo means "a gradual increase of something, often of sound".
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  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    McRazz said:

    'Anythink' instead of 'Anything'...


    'Anyfink' instead of 'Anythink'

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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Not a word, but a phrase - 'the hard decisions'.
    I will scream if I hear another politician use that phrase to justify some cr*p decision they have made or are just about to make.

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  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    I’m the same with ‘unprecedented’, it makes me shout at the telly. 
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  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited January 2023
    SherwoodArrow said:
    I’m the same with ‘unprecedented’, it makes me shout at the telly. 
    I'm with you on this one.
    Also the phrase "you guys" gets on my nerves. My wife is NOT a guy. She's a girl!! Or rather, a lady!! Either will do.
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