Ok so while I do say quite a few of these and I understand how this might of a grammatical annoyance to some, there's still a great sense of anal retentiveness here.
1. When people ask for something, I often hear: "Can I get a..." It infuriates me. It's not New York. It's not the 90s. You're not in Central Perk with the rest of the Friends. Really." Steve, Rossendale, Lancashire
Steve - The cashier at McDonalds is not going to understand "May I have a", this is not a formal setting. And if it was, we'd be using "I'll have" or "I would like". "May I have" is one of my annoyances, it's passive.
4. Using 24/7 rather than "24 hours, 7 days a week" or even just plain "all day, every day". Simon Ball, Worcester
We like things short and sweet, we don't have time to sit there and roll out 20 different words for something that can be said in 1 second.
11. Transportation. What's wrong with transport? Greg Porter, Hercules, CA, US
What? WHAT?! THEY'RE BOTH THE SAME THING. In fact, Transportation is more of a noun than transport is because transport is also a verb!
14. I caught myself saying "shopping cart" instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I've never lived nor been to the US either. Graham Nicholson, Glasgow
My labmate nat also got pissed off at this one. Just because they expect a cart to be like a wooden box being towed by a cow. The trolley in San Diego is the train that takes you around downtown and old town, and even down to Tijuana.
16. "I'm good" for "I'm well". That'll do for a start. Mike, Bridgend, Wales
I say this all the time, but I guess I'm good with this complaint as it's not really proper.
22. Train station. My teeth are on edge every time I hear it. Who started it? Have they been punished? Chris Capewell, Queens Park, London
Chris Capewell, I'm coming to your house and cooking you and your mentally disabled anal retentive spawn. WTF IS WRONG WITH TRAIN STATION? WTF DO YOU SAY? Train Stop? Train Junction? Train Depot? You're retarded.
31. "Hike" a price. Does that mean people who do that are hikers? No, hikers are ramblers! M Holloway, Accrington
You are also fucking retarded:
hike
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hike
? ?/ha?k/ Show Spelled [hahyk] Show IPA verb, hiked, hik?ing, noun
?verb (used without object)
1.
to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
2.
to move up or rise, as out of place or position (often followed by up ): My shirt hikes up if I don't wear a belt.
3.
Nautical . to hold oneself outboard on the windward side of a heeling sailboat to reduce the amount of heel.
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?verb (used with object)
4.
to move, draw, or raise with a jerk (often followed by up ): to hike up one's socks.
5.
to increase, often sharply and unexpectedly: to hike the price of milk.
36. Surely the most irritating is: "You do the Math." Math? It's MATHS. Michael Zealey, London
Math is fewer letters than maths and is easier to say. Do the math, which word has fewer letters.
38. My worst horror is expiration, as in "expiration date". Whatever happened to expiry? Christina Vakomies, London
THEY'RE THE SAME FUCKING WORD!!!!!
42. Period instead of full stop. Stuart Oliver, Sunderland
Fuck you, your name is Stuart. You sound like a girly man. Go plug up your full stop with a "sanitary towel".
I hate it when British people say "Innit", and don't pronounce the R in a letter. It's "Cart" not "caaaaaaaaaaaaaat". Also, "Me" instead of "my". It doesn't annoy me, but if you can be this anal retentive then so can I. It's "my friends" not "me friends". Edit: Ooh and one thing that REALLLLY annoys me is the way you guys say "At" instead of "Ate" like "Eight".
Apparently the western US is the only place where we say 'Gotta' instead of "got to". Is this true?
Edit: Oh and I love how no-one here has picked on the southern dialect. "I seen it go by", "I'm fixin to go to the bar", "I'm fixin to meet up with Tom", "I'm fixin to get me a new car".