# Phrases/terms that aggravate the hell out of you **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 26, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894 "2020-10-26T02:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 44
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/862 "2021-02-11T23:34:56Z")
Oops. Blew my cover. Too late to delete. Turns out dogs are bad at interneting. I mean people trying to make a joke. That’s it, people trying to make a joke. Nothing to see here, move along. Next post please. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/863 "2021-02-12T18:31:23Z")
Oh I just don’t know anymore. Throws up arms metaphorically. toward/towards? backward/backwards? couple more like that ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/864 "2021-02-12T18:48:17Z")
If you yourself want to be precise, or at least sound well-spoken, I would use the “-s” ending where the word is being used as an adverb (“the rocket went upwards”) but never or rarely as a a preposition (“the rocket went toward us”). It is largely a matter of preference/dialect, but to me, using the “-s” ending on a preposition sounds uncultured. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/865 "2021-02-12T19:01:50Z")
Yeah I’ll go with that jib-cut. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/866 "2021-05-01T22:55:23Z")
When dullards say “ignorant” when they mean to say “arrogant”. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/867 "2022-05-04T01:19:41Z")
I’ve seen this in “Ask a Manager” a couple of times and it annoys the crap out of me: “I’m a creative in such and such industry.” No, you’re a creative person or worker… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/868 "2022-05-04T07:08:22Z")
Just last week, I heard–from an English teacher, no less–“Her and her friend went to New York”. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/869 "2022-05-07T07:45:52Z")
[_Do_ iiiiit.](https://youtu.be/5R8vJZD3opg?t=28) ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/870 "2022-05-07T22:39:40Z")
“Did you bring enough for everybody?” (As seen in _Clockwise_.) “Were you raised in a barn?” (_How Green Was My Valley_.) There’s something about phrases like this that aggravate me. Why not simply say: “Stop chewing gum.” and “Go back and close the door.” No, it has to be some phrase that is passive:idiotic. I’d love to see a movie where a student is chewing gum into a all-class meeting and, when a teacher says “Did you bring enough for everybody.” proceeds to haul out a big bag of gum and passes it around. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/871 "2022-05-07T22:56:15Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > I’d love to see a movie where a student is chewing gum into a all-class meeting and, when a teacher says “Did you bring enough for everybody.” proceeds to haul out a big bag of gum and passes it around. Had a great 7th grade teacher (Hi, Mr. Kroll!) who encouraged us to do that in (the dread) Miss Robert’s class. She always used those little power trip phrases, so was flummoxed when sure 'nuff, when she chastised one of my friends, a mega-size bag of bazooka bubble gum was revealed. She might have outlawed it anyhow if Mr. Kroll hadn’t strolled by her door right then: “And how are things here? Oh, _gum for everyone?_ You certainly do know how to engage your students, Miss R.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/872 "2022-05-08T00:32:16Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > I’d love to see a movie where a student is chewing gum into a all-class meeting and, when a teacher says “Did you bring enough for everybody.” proceeds to haul out a big bag of gum and passes it around. [Skippy’s List](https://whyumai.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/skippy%E2%80%99s-list-the-213-things-skippy-is-no-longer-allowed-to-do-in-the-u-s-army/) 1. Not allowed to chew gum at formation, unless I brought enough for everybody. 2. (Next day) Not allowed to chew gum at formation even if I _did_ bring enough for everybody. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/873 "2022-05-08T02:24:07Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > I’d love to see a movie where a student is chewing gum into a all-class meeting and, when a teacher says “Did you bring enough for everybody.” proceeds to haul out a big bag of gum and passes it around. Another choice for the teacher [is this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J8__fWphE0). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/874 "2022-05-08T15:19:25Z")
Probably just me, but there’s a crappy movie called, _The Rage: Carrie 2_, that has a line of dialogue that almost makes my ears jump off my head and flee the vicinity. See how it sounds to you: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XRTEVq8zEVw/maxresdefault.jpg "The Rage: Carrie 2 (1/1) Killer Party (1999) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTEVq8zEVw) ---
**Author:** ![CardboardBoxx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardboardboxx/32/7079_2.png) [@CardboardBoxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CardboardBoxx)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/875 "2022-05-08T18:29:26Z")
“Shit. It won’t open” “Oh shit, dude. It’s her. It’s her doing it.” That’s what I hear and have no idea what is objectionable to that. (reply to burpo as Discourse thinks it knows better than everybody else how to make things clear.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/876 "2022-05-08T20:07:46Z")
> [@CardboardBoxx](#): > > That’s what I hear and have no idea what is objectionable to that. “It is her/him” is grammatically not quite right. The usage has become common for so long that “It’s she doing it” sounds clumsy, but from a presciptivist position, it is correct. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/877 "2022-05-08T20:39:20Z")
“It’s her doing it,” just sounds bad, especially right after, “It’s her!” The line should have been, “Oh, shit, dude! It’s her – _she’s_ doing it!” I hadn’t even thought of, “It’s she doing it.” “It’s her doing (without the “it”),” could possibly be a New Englander horror-movie expression, as in, “It was her undoing.” ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/878 "2022-05-10T20:45:01Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > If I saw “you all” I would read it more like “all a y’all”, emphasizing that it is referring to absolutely everyone in the group. “Y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, at least where I was raised 😀 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/879 "2022-05-10T22:37:07Z")
A short video treatise on “Y’all.”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ahkuYKI-PUg/maxresdefault.jpg "The Many Meanings of "Y'all"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahkuYKI-PUg) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/880 "2022-05-11T02:19:17Z")
Where were you raised? For me, growing up in various places in old Dixie, “y’all” is plural, while “you” is always singular. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894/881 "2022-05-11T13:12:09Z")
Ditto. I’m born and raised in Houston. Everyone says “y’all” for plural, “all y’all” to include absolutely everyone, and “you” for one person. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrases-terms-that-aggravate-the-hell-out-of-you/923894.md?page=45)