What English expression do you hate the most?

[Hover Fly]

Any double negative, e.g. 'we don't need no education'.

I don’t mind that as a sort of clumsy way of stressing something, but double negatives like “it’s not incomplete “ get my goat, just get your verbal diarrhoea cured and say “it’s complete”

 

[Drago]

Speaking of double negatives...

A local park has some new signs, the district junta council issuing orders.

The jist is that the signs instruct us thst we must not, and then a list of orders. One of those orders is DO (their emphasis in case we're thick) pick up dog poo.

So we must not do pick up our dog poo - I think that means we let the dog crap and leave it there.

 

[Gwylan]

Americanism. So many have crossed The Pond, that it would be impossible to rout them all out and go back to pure British English. So keep your cool and a stiff upper lip as you commute to work on the bike.

Edit, how many can you spot?

The Pond - it's The Atlantic, mostly.

 

[Gwylan]

"Can I get?"

 

[Alex321]

Oddly enough, while I'm not particularly bothered by the new expressions, idioms, Americanisms and the like in this thread, I do get a bit irritated by incorrect spelling. I don't mean American variant spelling - I'm OK with that. And I don't mean the odd slip with difficult words. I can acomodate that. I'm bothered where people use entirely the wrong word - loose for lose is top of the list, followed by past and passed. Oh yeah, its and it's too. Don't loose your way, go passed the house with a statue by it's gate. I don't hate it, but it does irk me a little.

Breaks instead of brakes is another common annoying one, particularly when seen in this forum. And peddles instead of pedals.

 

[Drago]

Sentences beginning with "and" causes me great distress.

 

[Hover Fly]

Sentences beginning with "and" causes me great distress.

Best if you don’t read Sir Thomas Mallory’s “Mort d’ Arthur “ then.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Sentences beginning with "and" causes me great distress.

And can you explain why?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Sentences beginning with "and" causes me great distress.

There's no good reason not to begin a sentence with "and", though. And that's all there is to it.

 

[Conrad_K]

Breaks instead of brakes is another common annoying one, particularly when seen in this forum. And peddles instead of pedals.

And the near-reversal of the use of "to" and "too." And the increasing disappearance of the full stop at the end of a sentence And the random confusion of "discreet" and "discrete". And...

 

[raleighnut]

And another one that is becoming increasingly ugly common.

Gotten.

Anyone using the term in the UK should be horse whipped, and I don't mean rhe enjoyable bondage dungeon by a dominatrix type of horse whipping.

“Gotten” is perfectly English, just somewhat archaic. The Pilgrims took it with them and, as puritans, resisted change. We, on the other hand, mangled it into “got” over time.

Ill gotton gains was commonly used to describe something (Cash or goods) made from nefarious activities

 

[Dogtrousers]

And the near-reversal of the use of "to" and "too." And the increasing disappearance of the full stop at the end of a sentence And the random confusion of "discreet" and "discrete". And...

I don't know why your complaining, it doesn't effect you.

 

[DaveReading]

“Gotten” is perfectly English, just somewhat archaic. The Pilgrims took it with them and, as puritans, resisted change. We, on the other hand, mangled it into “got” over time.

I'd forgotten that ...

 

[Gwylan]

Ill gotton gains was commonly used to describe something (Cash or goods) made from nefarious activities

That's " gotten"!

 

[matticus]

Sentences beginning with "and" causes me great distress.

and sentences where the verb does not agree with the subject. aaaaargh!