words that annoy

Dope as in it's very cool. I wish dope still only meant heroin.

I like this usage of dope, 1. a varnish applied to the fabric surface of model aircraft to strengthen them and keep them airtight.
-a thick liquid used as a lubricant.

I think it's probably the fumes from that usage that led to the druggy one!

I mean airplane glue, that's like synonymous with huffing, isn't it?

Ha! I never really thought you could get high from glue, just a headache? My grandmother has told me for many years, "As long are you aren't smoking that Dope!" I have no idea if she differentiates between any drugs in her mind, I think it's all just dope.

Yes, "dope" has bothered me for years. If nothing else it feel very dated at this point.

(see above post about "dope beats". Also see other usages of "dopeness".)

I don't know about high, but I do love the smell of solvents. I think part of the feeling you're supposed to get from them is simple oxygen deprivation?? Which somehow sounds more stupid and dangerous than all the other really dangerous drugs out there.

story about when they took their friend to a moodymann show and she stayed for about a minute and then turned round with a disgusted look and said "beats" in a contemptuous way and I always hear 'beats' that way now

ha ha im with you on this. there are exceptions but 'beats' is mostly used by the music-as-art types of the dance world and urrgh

many many americaniSations fuck me off, but there's a special place in my gut for broil. such an ugly and part-confusing word, makes me think of boiling an old grey gran bra in a big pot with some overdone brocolli, and you stick your food in that - that's broiling.

"Hey Abe, I've invented a new way of cooking."
"What, is it like submerging a piece of food in boiling water?"
"No no, nothing like that, this involves external heat from above."
"Oh ok, nothing like boiling then?"
"Nope, nothing like that. What shall we call this technique?"
"Hmm, how's about BROIL, that won't be confusing at all."
"WINNER"

It's like saying I'm going for a WRALK when I'm actually going hangliding.

@JacobSaunders & Laurel - you can definitely get high off of certain types of strong glue, for example the stuff they use to put rearview mirrors back on cars in auto body shops. It's definitely stupid and dangerous.

"many many americaniSations fuck me off"

Yeah, man-we're not too happy about your perversions of the language either, i dont care that you invented it. Go stick that lorry up your ass.

^ irony

tee hee

FLAVORFUL

Reminds me of this: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandmother-tries-indian-food,2472/
but it annoyed me even before that.

definitely, that and 'cooked to perfection'. who judges perfection? you? YOUR magical lofty tastebuds? get to fuck

Etymology of "broil"

From Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”) and Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of Old French bruir (“to burn”), of Germanic origin; and Old French usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulāre (“to scorch”).

"galore"

galoshes
panties
smorgasbord
cum

xpost aha so it was our fault after all! yup us guys came up with right shite back then, "ben borenn i þiss middellærd" and all that.. surely only a nation of numbnuts would hear that sort of tat and think 'ooh nice, lets keep this one'!

obvious i know, but any true list of annoying words wouldn't be complete without:

eggplant
zucchini
'erbs

'ERBS

punishable by death imo

what's the reasoning behind dropping that H? i understand herb is a more common guy's name in america but jimmy doesn't seem to have a problem with it, what's herbs big problem

some people like to grow 'erbs indoors.

haw

The English like to Anglicize words, so they added the "h" sound back into it after borrowing it from the French. See also: fillet. Talk about an obnoxious word: "fillet" as pronounced by the English is grating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn9Wcy88Np4

'webinar'

'wankinar' morelike

christ, I've taken so many webinars in the last two years that it dowsn't even phase me anymore. I need a new job.

Any corporation that brags about its "core competencies" is always incompetent. If they weren't so boneheadedly incompetent, they'd speak of their "strengths", not something as ingratiating and obfuscating as "core competencies".

The English like to Anglicize words, so they added the "h" sound back into it after borrowing it from the French. See also: fillet. Talk about an obnoxious word: "fillet" as pronounced by the English is grating.

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Wait, what? As in US = "feelay" and UK = "fill it"?

filet = fil-LAY

fillet = FILL-it

two different words, ain't they?

I can't bear it when wiseacres pronounce "restaurant" without sounding the "t" on the end.

Oh we've done this we've done this!!

Err nothing was actually decided, I don't think, except that the English hate the French.

SOmeone like Stephen Fry would say "restauran" and it just stinks of pretentiousness: "It's a French word, don't you know?". Yes, I'm aware of this but we've been using this word for a very long time indeed and I think we're at a point where we can start pronouncing it as spelled.

Gordon Ramsay's seemingly unique pronunciation of the word "restaurant" is seriously one of the most irritating things on British television.

filet = fil-LAY

fillet = FILL-it

two different words, ain't they?

Not necessarily.

filet (ˈfɪlɪt, ˈfɪleɪ, French filɛ)

— n fillet fillet a variant spelling of fillet

Anyway, yes, in the U.S. it's fi-LAY mignon and McDonald's serves Fi-LAY O' Fish.

When I was a waiter, the English and Australian guests said "FILL-et" (or FILL-it, not sure which). (And b/c the filet mignon was listed on the menus as only "Filet," they sometimes asked "Filet of what?"

I'd say fi-LAY mignon, but fill-it o'fish.

for the same reason i don't go round asking mcdonalds staff for filay au poisson.

oh okay i was thinking of fillet as in:

2. a narrow band of ribbon or the like worn around the head, usually as an ornament; headband.

this usage is always pronounced 'FILL-et' afaik

Firefox doesn't thinks it should always be spelled "fillet."

But then again, Firefox alerts me that "women's" is a typo, too.

Yeah it hates "women's" and "children's".

what about 'it's a steep learning curve' to describe a task that is hard to pick up? Now, if time is on the Y axis and competence is on the X-axis, as is the convention, then a steep curve indicates a job that is picked up very quickly. It's a _shallow_ curve that indicates difficulty. Perhaps people have the mental picture of a steep curve being hard to climb.

friend of mine had this to say: steep learning curve - nothing to do with time, all about the amount you get better at something (x) compared to the amount of effort required (y).

yes.

dog latin when referring to the large down-filled bed covering do you say "DOO-vett"?