Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Serial_Apologist]

I agree; my mother was a teacher, and that irked her much, when seemingly literate TV presenters used any of the aforementioned.

Two things that set my teeth on edge in this regard are

1. "off of" instead of merely "off"

2. The pronunciation of "drawing" as "drawRing"

GRRRRRRR !

I've managed to avoid the phantom R following a W in the middle of a word, or as in LAURA NORDER. Who is this Laura Norder, my late Dad would ask? But I must admit to the "off of", off off and on - no one ever tried to stop it: I think it may be a London thing!

[Pianoman]

I've managed to avoid the phantom R following a W in the middle of a word, or as in LAURA NORDER. Who is this Laura Norder, my late Dad would ask? But I must admit to the "off of", off off and on - I think it may be a London thing!

Yes this has annoyed me for years, and the posher the presenters the worse they are! Richard Osman (who really should know better...) talked on one of his shows recently about ‘ a reindeer “pouring” the ground ‘. Oh dear...

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes this has annoyed me for years, and the posher the presenters the worse they are! Richard Osman (who really should know better...) talked on one of his shows recently about ‘ a reindeer “pouring” the ground ‘. Oh dear...

Now you mention "pour", "paw", pronounced in the same way, is often said by presenters these days when they are talking about the impecunious. In this situation, Laura Norder is being over-applied indiscriminately to the paw.

[ahinton]

all too often your and you’re are used wrongly!

...which they were not so often in days of your - I mean you're - I mean...

[Maclintick]

Train manager (used to be called the guard) to customers (used to be called passengers) "We shall shortly be arriving into London Paddington..." Surely one might envisage the train pulling into Paddington, or arriving at the terminus...Shouldn't annoy me, really...but...

[Boilk]

Surely one might envisage the train pulling into Paddington, or arriving at the terminus...Shouldn't annoy me, really...but...

These days there are no steam locomotives that exclusively pull the train carriages behind them. If anything, the intercity ones (which have engines at front and back) are presumably simultaneously pulled and pushed. Not sure what verb one would use for trains powered by the overhead electrified cables?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Anybody else's eyebrows rise (teeth grate) at Petroc Trelawny's frequent references to the last movement of K331 as 'Rondo a la Turk' this morning? And no, it wasn't Dave Brubeck's track that followed.

Perhaps he could claim it was 'turque', but if so why?

[oddoneout]

Anybody else's eyebrows rise (teeth grate) at Petroc Trelawny's frequent references to the last movement of K331 as 'Rondo a la Turk' this morning? And no, it wasn't Dave Brubeck's track that followed.

Perhaps he could claim it was 'turque', but if so why?

He started doing it on Wednesday when the choice of piece to be arranged was being made, and presumably no-one queried it before today's unveiling.

[LMcD]

He started doing it on Wednesday when the choice of piece to be arranged was being made, and presumably no-one queried it before today's unveiling.

Not quite as bad as Liebestot ('tot' as in small child) which I heard during one of this week's Lunchtime Concerts.

[cloughie]

...which they were not so often in days of your - i mean you're - i mean...

‘then’.

[Serial_Apologist]

These days there are no steam locomotives that exclusively pull the train carriages behind them. If anything, the intercity ones (which have engines at front and back) are presumably simultaneously pulled and pushed. Not sure what verb one would use for trains powered by the overhead electrified cables?

And while we're at it, what was wrong with railway station that it had to be changed to train station? I think that change has crept up on us.

[Bryn]

These days there are no steam locomotives that exclusively pull the train carriages behind them. If anything, the intercity ones (which have engines at front and back) are presumably simultaneously pulled and pushed. Not sure what verb one would use for trains powered by the overhead electrified cables?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push–pull_train

[Boilk]

And while we're at it, what was wrong with railway station that it had to be changed to train station? I think that change has crept up on us.

It's arguably more logical as it's the location where the trains become stationary, whereas the railway (track) itself is always stationary?

Addendum: S_A see David-G's Post #13 from 2012!

[LezLee]

It’s like when we changed from being passengers to customers and trains started arriving ‘into’ stations.

[ahinton]

It’s like when we changed from being passengers to customers and trains started arriving ‘into’ stations.

Well, OK, but one is a customer the moment one has purchased a travel ticket but a passenger only during the journey (unless someone else has purchased the ticket)...