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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Better not listen to The Proclaimers then @Lizzie27 ;)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbNlMtqrYS0

    Or watch Still Game or Two Doors Down  :D
    It's a fairly standard word in the vocabulary up here - regional dialect   :)

    We used to have a client at work that we called Mr 'Ah wiz gonnae' because it was a phrase he regularly used at the start of a sentence  :D
    Nice family though. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Haitch.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    And urbal shampoo.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219

    Isn't that An'urbal - as in '...an' I was just walking darn the street...'?

    Right, I'm orf to enjoy Christmas with my dear, dear dafter and her new bundle of joy. So Merry Christmas to you all - and have a bloody good time, no matter what you do or who you spend it with!
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Walkin
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Less and fewer are not interchangeable.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Is it only me that feels the urge to boak when people talk about loving someone 'to the moon and back'  ?  :|
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Never came across that one. It does make me feel a bit bilious, though.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    You hear it all the time on the radio when folk are sending in requests for their OHs etc. 
    You'd think if they loved them so much, they'd pick a planet further away.... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Not a word, but phrases which seem to sneak into annoying usage by interviewees on the Today programme on Radio 4!

    In terms of
    Going forward
    Direction of travel

    AAArghh!!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


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