Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Nick Armstrong]

And another thing... (I'm sure we've had a moan-thread like this before, I've mentioned this)... the ludicrous duplication of the verb in many phrases like

".. the thing is, is that ..."

as if "thingis" is a noun.

[teamsaint]

"And now here on "breakfast" The Swingles/Jupiter/the second movement from/your call..." and so on.

[kernelbogey]

"Not a problem". Just about every service and hospitality provider seems to use it.

Recently buying a small item costing less than a pound in a shop, I tendered the exact money, to which the young assistant at the till said 'Awesome!'.

[teamsaint]

Hashtag.

[ahinton]

The one in Bournemouth is a 'Transport Interchange'!

Really? So one can travel to it by train and find there another train bound for Bournemouth airport, coach station or whatever? Hmmm...

[Serial_Apologist]

Stakeholder.

Not in the old B and W horror movies way...

but in the mistake holder sense

[MrGongGong]

The other one I love
is shops where they ask "did you find everything you were looking for ?"
to which I sometimes answer with things like

"no , i didn't find the sofas with the free beer"
or
"no, I was looking for salvation and thought I might find it by the A4 laminating pouches"

[teamsaint]

but in the mistake holder sense

lost me . I got something wrong?

[Bax-of-Delights]

Weathermen and women have a lexicon of phrases all of their own. There's one (female) one on the BBC who never misses an opportunity to say "What a difference a day makes"

And the inconsequential and plainly daft "something for everyone today".
I'd like a tornado to rip through my neighbour's garden, please. Oh, you're not offering that.

[Thropplenoggin]

'Special relationship'

'standing shoulder to shoulder'

etc.

[Serial_Apologist]

lost me . I got something wrong?

Never mind TS - you're not the only one doesn't understand my strange sense of humour

[Angle]

I remember when train stations were called railway stations. There was no need for a new description; there already was one - which I still use.

[Stillhomewardbound]

Detrain

Viral

'Security Service' on train announcments - alarmist

Water-cooler moment (beloved of Philip Dodd)

Like ... as heard in, like, young peolple's, like, everday speech ... like.

Cool

Wicked

Random

the Andrew Lloyd Weber of his day

EXcetera

Innit

[Sir Velo]

"We need to be joined up on this."

[MrGongGong]

If there is something that comes in three sizes surely they are
Small, Medium and Large ?
not Grand, wobbly, and grandissimo or any other nonsense

and BLACK COFFEE has NOTHING to do with America .......

(180:120 and rising)

the Andrew Lloyd Weber of his day

Surely we have a word for that ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism