Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[Serial_Apologist]

That's all very well, Pab, but we Britons don't live in America or Canada where some things appear to have become frozen in time since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers.They still use imperial measurements and the Fahrenheit scale 'over there', don't they?

Not in Canada.

[wenotsoira]

Ibragimova

[Serial_Apologist]

Go compa-a-a-a-re!!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Go compa-a-a-a-re!!!

"You're so money-supermarket!"

[Serial_Apologist]

"You're so money-supermarket!"

At least the new version has a large construction worker in tin hat and overalls doing a scaffolding pole vault on a building site, which if it, like many TV ads these days, has no relevance whatsoever to the product, is just a wee bit wittier than the human ringer with a bald head welded to an oversized posterior prancing down a street - which had me actually feeling so ill I had to rush out of the room every time it came on, e.g. practically every ad break.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

- which had me actually feeling so ill

Me, too.

And, yes: "You're so money supergullible" always gets me foaming at the mouth, too. (Which I suppose is the point ... I haven't forgot[ten] the name of the product/brand, after all.)

[ahinton]

Ibragimova

Ever feel that you're out on your own?

Anyway, "Ibragimova" is neither a phrase nor a word; it's a surname and, as such, no more intrinsically charged with the ability to set teeth on edge than Smith, so it's off-topic.

Maybe you need a change of dentist; might http://www.daviesandassociates.co.uk...ey-street.html be a good stasrt?

"We not so IRA"; hmmm...(discuss?)...

[Tapiola]

Go compa-a-a-a-re!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr-FoBW5Xw

[Beef Oven!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr-FoBW5Xw

[ahinton]

Funny; I always thought that it was "go compère" - which only goes to show the level and extent of my ignorance...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

'Brits' ...

Indeed.

[P. G. Tipps]

Funny; I always thought that it was "go compère" - which only goes to show the level and extent of my ignorance...

Please don't display that 'ignorance' to all and sundry by being so personally insulting, ahinton ...

[ahinton]

Please don't display that 'ignorance' to all and sundry by being so personally insulting, ahinton ...

"Insulting"? To whom?

And what's wrong with "Brits"? (the term, I mean)...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And what's wrong with "Brits"? (the term, I mean)...

It's the way Bill Bryson uses it: 'you Brits".

[P. G. Tipps]

The first was entirely due to my obviously weird sense of humour.

The Second? Well it is yet another example of the seemingly endless and almost juvenile media Americanisation of British English.

I find this little short of pathetic but there are far worse things happening in the world right now!