Teeny tiny things that drive you nuts out of all proportion

[tyred]

People who get annoyed over trifles.

 

[AndyRM]

When iTunes decides to randomly loose my album art yet again!

Where was it released? Perhaps a search could be organised?

 

[AndyRM]

My cat

My wife phoning me as she leaves work and launching into a full blown description of her day, which will be repeated when she walks through the door 15 minutes later

The sh!te train that runs from Peterborough to Norwich, taking the same length of time to cover a quarter of the distance from Newcastle to Peterborough

My mate Fletch's drop shots at badminton

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Where was it released? Perhaps a search could be organised?

take it I got the wrong spelling again - or should that be incorrect spelling?

 

[AndyRM]

take it I got the wrong spelling again - or should that be incorrect spelling?

Yup. No offense intended, I was going to list it as one of the things that drives me nuts, but thought I'd make a poor joke instead.

 

[Over The Hill]

[QUOTE 2411601, member: 259"]Haytch is standard in Irish English and I'm used to it now. Anyway, languages are never static until they become extinct. Who's to say what's right and wrong?[/quote]

Should something that is wrong be accepted as right just because a number of people make the mistake?

The root of it is that the word looks and sounds like it may have a dropped "h" at the beginning and so they (wrongly) add it in.

Similarly then, most people pronounce Gnu as "gurnoo". This is not correct as it is "noo" with a silent g. It got to be "gurnoo" when it was used in a silly song (Flanders and Swann) which was full of mispronounced words. Should we switch to "gurnoo" as a result. Am I right to say "knife" or "gnome" with non silent first letters? How many people need to make the same mistake for it to be deemed OK?

I do accept language moves along and develops but there is developing and there is wrong.

As a kid at school I hated English and loved Maths. In maths 2+2 always equals 4. In English for example "....ough" can be oh, och, urra, oo, off or many other sounds, that drives me mad and so I am rather against even more extra alternatives being accepted.
I know it is probably just me!!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Misuse of the word alternative to mean offering more than one other choice.

GC

 

[green1]

[QUOTE 2411823, member: 259"]Trying to set language in stone just doesn't work[/quote]
The French have tried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française

 

[Lance Jack]

People who drive in the middle land of a motorway/dual carriageway at 50mph on a nice sunny day with little traffic. I know I can go round them but why are they not in the proper lane in the first place?

 

[swee'pea99]

Should something that is wrong be accepted as right just because a number of people make the mistake?

The root of it is that the word looks and sounds like it may have a dropped "h" at the beginning and so they (wrongly) add it in.

Similarly then, most people pronounce Gnu as "gurnoo". This is not correct as it is "noo" with a silent g. It got to be "gurnoo" when it was used in a silly song (Flanders and Swann) which was full of mispronounced words. Should we switch to "gurnoo" as a result. Am I right to say "knife" or "gnome" with non silent first letters? How many people need to make the same mistake for it to be deemed OK?

I do accept language moves along and develops but there is developing and there is wrong.

As a kid at school I hated English and loved Maths. In maths 2+2 always equals 4. In English for example "....ough" can be oh, och, urra, oo, off or many other sounds, that drives me mad and so I am rather against even more extra alternatives being accepted.
I know it is probably just me!!

Use of more than one exclamation mark.

 

[Fnaar]

The French have tried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_française

Je vais le lire ce week-end

 

[ianrauk]

Use of more than one exclamation mark.

Oooh.. don't let Keith Oates see this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[top-tube]

Scottish bank holidays. No-one ever knows when they are (apart from 1st/2nd Jan).

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

[QUOTE 2411894, member: 259"]Trying to spend banknotes from Northern Ireland in England.[/quote]
rather like trying to spend Scottish banknotes south of the border as well, but it is better than it used to be.

 

[Archie_tect]

TT, it's when the banks are shut...
,,,where I live that's Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.