I too hate play the race card and slippery slope; but the problem is that if you try to point out those concepts without using the terms, someone will just end up saying, “you mean like a slippery slope?”
I don’t know in what part of the country “cheesed off” is popular but that drives me nuts. So does IMNSHO. I also hate the preemptive rant apologists who proclaim their rant as weak or mild in the title to avoid potential backlash.
There are only two that really, really get to me.
When people say “what she said”
The ever popular “jealous much”
Webster’s defines Britain as all four nations; does not distinguish between Britain and Great Britain. And sorry; I forgot that the Island was not just England.
I personally don’t use them interchangeably: I use “English” when referring to the language or the “ethnicity,” and “British” when referring to politics or culture, although some aspects of culture get an “English” from me.
Other board-specific things I hate:
“Get off your cross, we need the wood.”
“:shrug:”
And I must repeat “anywho,” because I just got an email that contained this abomination, and my reaction was visceral.
I’ve never seen “doenuts,” but I often see “donuts” on signs and advertisements. I’m not saying it’s right, but some people spell it that way. You don’t even need that “e” in there.
El Escorpio - Thanks, I think.
You used to be such a nice boy, Denis. What happened? Yes, I’m about to take language lessons from you. Tsk tsk…
Glad to see I affected you though. Makes my posts worthwhile.
Yes, now that you mention it, I’ve seen it writtne like that as well. I made it doenuts to demonstrate that the u g and h were trully redundant. Doenut doesn’t have any pronunciation ambiguities where as donut could be pronounced doo nut.
Be that as it may; I’m in Canada, and my Gage Canadian Dictionary that I keep at my computer says “Judgment or judgement.”