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I'm sure we've had somthing like this before; but I'm using this as a stress relief to help me avoid a Michael Douglas 'falling down' moment toward the knuckle draggers in my office.

Sadly I work in Croydon (for the past 2 1/2 years), but today they are really getting to me. So far today, including from management, I've heard the followng several times over:

Somefink
Anyfink
Nuffink
Summink
Sarnk (also meaning 'something')
We woz
Shup (I believe this is an abbreviation of please be quiet!)
Innit (comes as standard around here)

Also a bundle of double negatives; whilst all calling each other bruv & blood (these are predominatly women).

Feel free to add your own; and thanks for indulging my frustration. :rant:
 






sully

Dunscouting
Jul 7, 2003
7,868
Worthing
Brought when they mean bought is by far the one that sends me off the scale.

Luckily, I don't hear it much, but I see it written all the time!
 








Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
NSC Patron
May 8, 2007
12,868
Toronto
expresso
could/would/should of
Sandanza
 




Ludensian Gull

Well-known member
Apr 18, 2009
3,750
Thorpness Suffolk
Having someone ask you to confirm your name over the telephone , without them even telling you what it is in the first place
 














Twinkle Toes

Growing old disgracefully
Apr 4, 2008
11,138
Hoveside
I nominate David 'Pleaty' Pleat. There's usually at least 1 word that he gets hopelessly wrong in every sentence he utters.
 


Superphil

Dismember
Jul 7, 2003
25,476
In a pile of football shirts
¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤;3920881 said:
Wait for it.......... "Can I get a coffee"


:shrug:

no, you f***ing can't, :rant:

your going to get are blood pressure up with lines like that, their is no need to use those Americanisms here, there too f***ing illiterate too be aloud to call they're language English.

Oh, and I hate the terms

American English

and

English (UK)

or

English (American)

It should be either English, or, American, or, if they really must, American English
 






Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
NSC Patron
May 8, 2007
12,868
Toronto
Skedule - we're not in America so pronounce it in English
 


strings

Moving further North...
Feb 19, 2006
9,965
Barnsley
Your, you're, there, there, they're.

Superphil seems to agree in post #14
 


pasty

A different kind of pasty
Jul 5, 2003
30,488
West, West, West Sussex
Poeple that get borrow and lend the wrong way round

Eg: Can you borrow me a fiver / Could I lend a fiver off you
 






brought instead of bought when buying something.

always tempted to say "Where did you bring it from?"
 


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