It aggravates my irritation when “aggravate” is used to mean “irritate.”
I think it’s already been brought up 3 or 4 times so far in the thread…
I hardly ever see the word “offer” used anymore, it appears to have been replaced by “proffer”.
The extra “p” strikes me as ppretentious.
The British use of whinge for whine. Do the British pronounce the g?
Yes, this! It bugs me much more than seeing U’s in colour, etc.
I haven’t seen this, except in a legal context, where it has a specific meaning.
But not in everyday speech, our outside of a negotiation between lawyers representing opposing parties.
If I did see it in the wild, so to speak, it would definitely be annoying, though.
You view that affectation with disfavour? Go to England and shout it out in the centre of towne.
This is how I say “colour”:
Oh this Canuck will grandly brandish that “U’” every time. 
Funny - even though we hew to Brit. instead of US spellings, I don’t have any clue of this “whinge” thing, and am also curious if it’s pronounced with a hard (or soft?) “g”.
Whinge is pronounced Whinj, with a soft g.
It means something different, too; a whinge is a vocal and wheedling complaint, whereas a whine is the noise a moped makes.
Ah, thanks. And I’m guessing a short (instead of long) “i” to go with that.
Splunge 
You would be correct (I have seen enough Britcoms to have heard it more than once, though the most common way I hear it is “whinging”).
So whinge rhymes with hinge?
That’s how I pronounce it.
More importantly, it’s how the Brits pronounce it.
Those I’ve heard use it give it an inflection that says “You are so annoying, complaining about such minor things that I bet you whinge like that about absolutely everything.”
It never stops! I just saw a new one in my desired spam inbox (it’s the account I use to sign up for mailing lists or order stuff, so I expect coupons, receipts and offers there):
Subject line: Blah Blah. “Deets inside”
What the fuck are “deets”? The only DEET I know is mosquito repellent. From context I eventually determined “deets” is some shitty attempt at cuteness meaning “details”. You saved 2 FUCKING characters!!!
Just burn in hell. Just for that I unsubscribed. Too bad I didn’t get the nag box asking why on that email.
My theory is that this type of thing is similar to the original Liberty Mutual commercials, in which an actor would directly address the camera with ‘you named your car Brad’ and then complain about how mean insurance companies are to you when you have a teensie weensie accident, how dare they!
In other words, “deets” (and the ‘why should I be penalized for crashing my car?’ commercials) are a filtering device: they collect stupid customers and repel smart customers.
If your business venture is more profitable when your customers are dim-witted–say, for example, that you are selling $1 items for $999 apiece–then you will desire to attract dimbulbs.
And “deets” is just the way to grab those people who think ‘wow, this is cool and up-to-date, and others will admire me for liking this cool and up-to-date thing, so sign me up!’
I can’t recall whether I already posted this—
“Invite” as a noun instead of “invitation”.
Please just say the whole word.
This seems to be the purpose of ALL Liberty Mutual commercials.