words that get your goat
Published 12 months ago in My life.A conversation with a workmate had us in fits of laughter at the strange things people say. Her mother inlaw cant seem to say filthy, instead she says Thilthy, and it drives my workmate crazy, the mother inlaw finds lots of thilthy things to moan about, and my w/mate wants to scream at her- ” its FILTHY’!!!
I once worked for someone who -conversated- with people, she was also -conversating- with people, it took all my concentration not to laugh.
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I knew someone who ended most utterances with “so she said” or “so she did”, she also rang a certain department store one Christmas to complain about their Santa, because when she sat on his lap she was sure he had a election
I once heard a woman in a park earnestly telling her male companion that he had to take the balls by the horn.
Makes your eyes water doesn’t it!
I lisp on occasions and once had to hold a conversation in the workplace with an irate lady whose name was Mrs Fluck. I spoke very slowly, but secretly wanted to suggest she had her name changed by deed poll!
incomhensible. incompra. incomprehesn. oh bugger. you know that word that means you cant understand. cant even spell it let alone say. i know. incompresensable. no incomprewotsit. well you know.
My dearest Mercy. It would appear that, in a cognitive sense, in respect of the delivery of vocabulary, you are
indeed discombobulated. Have used this word here before, but because it is such a special word, thought i might use it one more time.
No wurrys luv, you be right ok!
shadowmaster.
PS at this stage, re the election, NOT HAPPY JAN.
Mercy, I do indeed know that word……….I think I just used it mentally when the election results were announced a short while ago.
Good post Winnierose!
I had a tutor at uni who says “hypotheseses” instead of “hypotheses” (the plural of hypothesis). At first it was funny that someone so far into their tertiary education didn’t know the right word, but then it just got annoying because for some reason she says it All The Time.
P.S. Don’t worry Shadowmaster… Nook still salutes its Liberal mayor.
P.P.S. Don’t tell the boss, but under the many layers of jumpers I’ll be wearing my Kevin 07 t-shirt to work today to celebrate!
yep. incompresensable.
I used to know a woman who liked to order a “cup of cino” she thought that was the correct pronunciation. My little brother used to say ‘hostable’ instead of hospital which was just plain cute.
I once had a friend ask me ‘how many windows’ my computer had?!!!! I told her five, but they weren’t all curtained - some had blinds!
I knew a little girl once, MANY years ago, who went to the ‘hostable’ too. She would also ask me to “do my shoes (or buttons) undone”.
The words and phrases that get my goat are the ones that become fashionable eg ‘24/7′, ‘I don’t believe this’, ‘Oh my Gard!’ etc, and are inserted into every conversation, whether appropriate or not. And how about “Get Some Sleep”? It finds its way into almost every film and TV script and has done for years. i suspect that there is a book of cliches which script writers keep in their top drawer and they use it to fill in the spaces when inspiration runs dry. How’s that for a conspiracy theory?