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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Two things which push my buttons.  One is the incorrect use of "thee" and "thou", as if thou canst use them indiscriminately and it doesn't matter... presumably people who do this have never read Shakespeare, or the King James version of the Bible.  Just showing my age, I guess.

    The other is that little word "the".  I was brought up to pronounce it in two ways, depending on whether it was followed by a vowel or not.  So it would be "thu frog" but "thee elephant".  Now it's fashionable to pronounce it "thu" followed by a glottal stop, if the next word begins with a vowel.  Just ugly.

    End of rant.  Feeling better now...  :)  
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Not a single word but an oft used phrase " I didn't actually say that " followed by a lengthy ( and often unfathomable ) explanation. 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    philippasmith2 said:
    Not a single word but an oft used phrase " I didn't actually say that " followed by a lengthy ( and often unfathomable ) explanation. 
    have you been listening to a politician speak?
    Devon.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Good story @pansyface. To my knowledge there is no translation into Italian for the French word tutoyer. I think this tells us South Yorkshire folk are allied to the French whereas the rest of the UK have parallels with the Italians.
    Rutland, England
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    What happened to 'draipse'? I've used the word all my life - especially after having kids and them leaving their clothes 'draipsed all over the place'. I was mailing my dear dafter about draipsing the wet washing indoors, and the spell checker gave me a bad mark. Has draipse never existed and I misheard someone say drapes?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well it's a word now. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    I always thought the word differed from drape - as drape was intended, organised - they draped the curtains artistically around the port hole - whereas draipse was slovenly,haphazard - 'the wet washing was draipsed all over the radiators'.

    Makes me wonder what else I've been saying over the years that was only known and knowable by me - and it explains why some people just nod at me and smile with that pained expression.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    I wish people would stop talking about "the island of Island"! 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
     Never heard that one. Do they mean Ireland?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Presumably because they're differentiating between the Highlands, and the rest of Scotland, because there are huge variations    :)  
    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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