Totally appears everywhere nowadays, as in it's totally awesome. Purchase, when what you really mean is buy a dozen eggs etc My personal pet hates are: My bad Wake up and smell the coffee He/she/we reached out to... Awesome Just saying Anyhoo He be like To deplane...................don't get me started.
This one! Yes, it's so irritating to me! Haha, I've used that before. Mostly when someone mentions anything to do with archaeology, because I will monologue happily for hours, and rant about the history channel and ancient aliens. Why can't they present real archaeology! why! why! why! I'm guilty of so many of these irritating phrases.
"Sweeping." As in, "The President signed sweeping changes to the law..." I heard a reporter on CNN yesterday say that certain proposals are "very sweeping." Ouch!
Yeah, that one is kind of silly. It's like there's giant broom wandering around looking for things to change.
Do you work for the Cooncil? For me it's definitely 'awesome.' Unless you are referring to the Grand Canyon or a collision of planets.
"You of all people..." I cringe every time I hear or read that. It seem that anytime someone want's to make a counter point that's the go to phrase.
Two little ones: "So" to begin the answer to a question. "How do you get to San Diego?" "So, you head south on I-405..." "So" is unnecessary and wrong in this case. Also, "at": "Where's the TV remote at?" It's perfectly correct to say "Where is the TV remote?" without the "at." To me, the "at" makes it sound like the speaker is barely literate.
I was thinking of the old Snoop Dogg video with the old guy saying, "Where's my daughter at? She's with that doggie dog again!"
Oh, to add to that excellent list: FACT. As in: 'You can no longer debate any of the garbage I just said, because I ended the discussion with FACT." Or its irritating first cousin: END OF.
"Bad boy(s)" - referring to something that's good. In my reading though "sit(ting) down" when from a standing position - sitting is a motion in the downward direction generally. "Dimly lit" - dimness is a quantity of illumination, making "lit" unnecessary.
Doesn't lit in its original sense apply to artificial light? Therefore, I see "dimly lit" as more specific, maybe an office with little to no natural light and a dim lamp. Whereas a dim room is one with little light, the type of light being irrelevant. Maybe I'm being pedantic, but IMO they evoke different umages.
I suspect the phrase is supposed to be "It's always coldest just before the dawn." Which would make more sense.
In the UK mine would be 'deliver' - as in 'through consistent lottery funding we delivered ten gold medals in rowing/we deliver IT solutions going forward/the boy delivered...passionate. Oh, note abuse of 'passionate:' passionate about delivering results, wanker... In the US probably 'serve' or 'served.' Politics aside, word usage has that touch of Cheston Heston Armageddon movie about it...
The Mythbusters did it just fine My biggest pet peeve is when people use "talk" when they should say "speak." It also really irks me when someone uses "who" when "whom" was correct. Or even worse for me though is people who try to use whom to seem smart, but then get it wrong. I never understood the confusion. I wouldn't accidentally interchange "he" with "him." It's not really a word, but I also dislike the improper use of a semicolon. Oh, also unobtanium. While it is a term used in engineering and science, it's never used correctly in science fiction.