Teeny tiny things that drive you nuts out of all proportion

[LarryDuff]

People who think I want a chicken and mayonnaise sandwich when I ordered a chicken sandwich.

 

[snapper_37]

I found a long hair tangled in the wipe-cloth - I really hate that

I hate that too, makes me feel a bit sick . Even more so on a sponge scourer thing.

 

[colly]

Boxes for electronic bits and pieces.
As an example: I bought an SD card for a camera. They are what ? 20mm x 25mm x 1mm give or take. The box was something like 100mm x 75mm x 40mm.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Boxes for electronic bits and pieces.
As an example: I bought an SD card for a camera. They are what ? 20mm x 25mm x 1mm give or take. The box was something like 100mm x 75mm x 40mm.

bigger items need more conceiling (?spelling) from a theft point of view which is why amazon now have that amazon packaging option on SD cards and similar items where there is less packaging because there is less need.

 

[LarryDuff]

I order a pack of 18 power bars for my son. The actual pack was about half the size of a shoebox but it was delivered inseide a cardboard box that was about 2ftx2ftx3ft.

 

[theclaud]

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!!

You need the hard "g" in gnu for that alternative version of "Hard Day's Night" to work. You know, the one that goes:

But when I get home to you
I find you've got a gnu,
Which makes me feel uptight.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Am I right to say "knife" or "gnome" with non silent first letters?

That's how they used to be said until enough people stopped voicing the k and the g and they became silent. Same was true for knead, knave, knight so if you want to go back to that you won't be wrong.


GC

 

[glasgowcyclist]

And an orange, to an Elizabethan, was 'a norange'.

Likewise for a nadder (snake) and a napron etc.. It (metanalysis) happens in other languages too.

GC

 

[Archie_tect]

Ah the Black Kernigget....

 

[ACS]

People that proudly display a "Baby on board, please drive carefully" sticker on the back of their Citroen Picasso yet proceed to drive like a complete arse.

Drivers who ignore the baby on board sign, but will not travel within a 100 yards of any vehicle with a sign stating "Caution show dogs in transit".

Youngsers who live north of the Watford gap who think speaking in 'Estuary English' is cool. in'it

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Ah the Black Kernigget....

Go away or I shall taunt you a second time...


GC

 

[vernon]

just ditch the salt & the vinegar. problem solved!

+1

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2411668, member: 259"]Documentary programmes which recapitulate everything that has gone before after each commercial break.[/quote]

I hate that too, those documentary programmes which recapitulate everything that has gone before after each commercial break.

Ps got it all off your chest yet mort?

 

[Archie_tect]

Commercial breaks...

 

[Davidc]

Adverbs which have the ly left off - spoken or written, and no exception for Americans.