Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[LezLee]

Re phatic utterance: When I lived in Germany I remember someone once asked me why I kept throwing the word "eigentlich" into my conversation. Its meaning is "actually" and the comment made me realise that my spoken English was peppered with it (coming out as "aksherly" even from the lips of speakers with otherwise punctilious diction) and I was unconsciously transferring it and using it in a way which Germans just don't.

You can often hear something similar from Germans speaking English (eg J. Klopp). They throw in far too many alreadys, because the equivalent "schon" is a very prevalent filler in German speech.

Slightly relevant - I remember when I used to go on holiday to Austria, I noticed many Austrians finished their sentences with 'oder', as 'innit' is used now or 'isn't it?' in Wales, and 'ken?' in Scotland.

[Serial_Apologist]

Slightly relevant - I remember when I used to go on holiday to Austria, I noticed many Austrians finished their sentences with 'oder', as 'innit' is used now or 'isn't it?' in Wales, and 'ken?' in Scotland.

Common in Germany, and German-speaking Switzerland too, from memory.

[cloughie]

Slightly relevant - I remember when I used to go on holiday to Austria, I noticed many Austrians finished their sentences with 'oder', as 'innit' is used now or 'isn't it?' in Wales, and 'ken?' in Scotland.

Or in S Yorks ‘in’t it’.

[LezLee]

Or in S Yorks ‘in’t it’.

Indeed. I know Yorks is pretty big, but till I lived in Sheffield I'd no idea how different the lingo is and how different North Yorks is too.

[LMcD]

From a report currently on the BBC News website on the suspension of the Jeremy Kyle Show:
'Societally, we have a responsibility for why this TV is made....'

[gradus]

From a report currently on the BBC News website on the suspension of the Jeremy Kyle Show:
'Societally, we have a responsibility for why this TV is made....'

Only a matter of time before someone refers to someone's 'agency' in the context of what happened.

[Stanfordian]

Soon becoming wearing is the word 'moment(s)' liberally spoken in soccer circles - I think Gary Neville started it off and its use has very quickly spread. - Now all commentators and pundits seem to be peppering their conversations with it.

Eg: "You have to take your moments in the game." - "There will soon be a moment that will change the game."

Whilst writing this I've just heard Franck Lampard use "moments" twice already on the radio.

It will get much worse before it gets better!

[visualnickmos]

Over-use of the word 'passionately' - especially on CVs.

How can anybody seriously be passionate about efficient filing data systems?!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Over-use of the word 'passionately' - especially on CVs.
How can anybody seriously be passionate about efficient filing data systems?!

Given the Latin origins of the word include "suffering" and "disease" ... spreading a virus?

[Serial_Apologist]

Over-use of the word 'passionately' - especially on CVs.

How can anybody seriously be passionate about efficient filing data systems?!

If you could still ask my dad, who had Aspergers, he would tell you.

[cloughie]

Soon becoming wearing is the word 'moment(s)' liberally spoken in soccer circles - I think Gary Neville started it off and its use has very quickly spread. - Now all commentators and pundits seem to be peppering their conversations with it.

Eg: "You have to take your moments in the game." - "There will soon be a moment that will change the game."

Whilst writing this I've just heard Franck Lampard use "moments" twice already on the radio.

It will get much worse before it gets better!

Franck Lampard - Leeds failed to bury Cesar! Who's crying now!

[LMcD]

'Up-tick' (presumably there's also 'down-tick') - a particularly pretentiousness alternative to 'increase' or 'rise' and 'decrease' or 'fall' respectively.
I also weary of the over-use of 'robust' these days. Perhaps the term 'robust defence' could be reserved for altercations outside pubs at the weekend...

[cloughie]

The use of 'random' seems to becoming ever more random.

[LeMartinPecheur]

"Shout-out" (n.) seems to have become endemic on R3 suddenly. And so presumably in the rest of the country? If so I'd managed to dodge it!

[gurnemanz]

I also weary of the over-use of 'robust' these days. Perhaps the term 'robust defence' could be reserved for altercations outside pubs at the weekend...

Having never really thought about the word "robust", I checked its etymology. It comes from the Latin for oak tree - surely quite a vivid image with which to describe someone's defence. I quite like a robust claret but I'm not sure where oak trees come in there.