Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Nick Armstrong]

Electronic voice:

"Unexpected item in bagging area"

[ahinton]

Electronic voice:

"Unexpected item in bagging area"

Given that this expression invariably emenates from the electronic course to which you ascribe it (except when real humans are making fun of it), might not poetic justice appropriately determine it to be a phrase that sets your false teeth on edge?

(...that unexpeced item in the bagging are must be me coat - better get it prontissimo...)

[MrGongGong]

"World-class concert hall"

[Beef Oven!]

"Simon says"

[Stanfordian]

I virtually never hear the phrase "not at all" except in 'The Archers' whose writers pepper the programmes with it. It really begins to get up the nose.

[gurnemanz]

I virtually never hear the phrase "not at all" except in 'The Archers' whose writers pepper the programmes with it. It really begins to get up the nose.

I listen to the Archers largely involuntarily now (my wife always puts it on and it often seems annoyingly to coincide with our evening meal.) Among the many things that grate with me, no doubt pure prejudice on my part, is the constant use of "me neither" (pronounced "neether) in preference to "neither do I", which seems more elegant to me.

[Nick Armstrong]

"mercurial scherzo"

(e.g. Sarah Walker on Schubert D959)

[teamsaint]

"mercurial scherzo"

(e.g. Sarah Walker on Schubert D959)

"the A major" (or whatever key) when referring to one out of many works, the keys of which on might not have on immediate recall, and when there is a perfectly good (or better) title.

[Bryn]

"mercurial scherzo"

(e.g. Sarah Walker on Schubert D959)

Didn't know you also functioned a s milliner.

By the way, 1,410 hits for "mercurial scherzo" on Google just now.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"mercurial scherzo"
(e.g. Sarah Walker on Schubert D959)

I wonder if the second movement should be described as "venereal"? <butterwouldn'tmeltemoticon>

[Flosshilde]

I listen to the Archers largely involuntarily now (my wife always puts it on and it often seems annoyingly to coincide with our evening meal.) Among the many things that grate with me, no doubt pure prejudice on my part, is the constant use of "me neither" (pronounced "neether) in preference to "neither do I", which seems more elegant to me.

I think The Archers is supposed to represent real life rather than be a model of elegance. Of course, your own home life might be the epitome of elegance, with nothing but pearls and diamonds dropping from your lips , but in Archers world such elegance is rarely attained (except by the sainted Jill, to whom the epithet 'fragrant' truly belongs)

[Richard Tarleton]

Among the many things that grate with me, no doubt pure prejudice on my part, is the constant use of "me neither" (pronounced "neether) in preference to "neither do I", which seems more elegant to me.

"(Me neither)" - usually in brackets - seems to have a specific use in print these days, for examples in columns or reviews, as shorthand for "I haven't heard of him/her/them/it either", taking it for granted that the reader hasn't. Usually intended humorously I don't mind it.

[jean]

Neanch'io, or in Veneto dialect, neanca mi.

[Richard Tarleton]

¡yo tampoco!

[Nick Armstrong]

Didn't know you also functioned a s milliner.