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you cheeky little burger, you!
What annoys you?
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The utter misuse of the word "decimate" at every turn. It's so bad the dictionaries just gave up and now define it to mean two different things. Basically 1) 90% "destruction" and 2) 10% "destruction". #2 is correct but /never/ used that way. #1 is incorrect but used constantly in news broadcasts.
And don't get me started on the misuse of "penultimate". :)
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Posts : 21,004 Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10New #1005
Yeah SV I like the "Find your apples here" always imagine it being like an after Christmas sales rush errrrr the - you know who I mean scrambling all over the cart amongst the cabbages and pears etc to find them 
Plus I really get REALLY annoyed with those kids who say like I went like down like the the street and like I like bought an apple then like ate it like then
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No worse than some of our Congressional leader's saying "Ah" when commenting on a subject they know nothing about. IMHOYeah SV I like the "Find your apples here" always imagine it being like an after Christmas sales rush errrrr the - you know who I mean scrambling all over the cart amongst the cabbages and pears etc to find them
Plus I really get REALLY annoyed with those kids who say like I went like down like the the street and like I like bought an apple then like ate it like then
THW
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No that's right. I hear it used to mean next to first, first or even worse, meaning something like "super ultimate" or "Better than first"
In both of those cases I think that the word just /sounds/ like it should mean something completely different from what it does, so a lot of people just assume a meaning and use it that way.
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Yeah, "sounding right" counts for a lot these days--recently I have been seeing a lot of "would of" for "would've" or "would have". Mouthbreathers, I assume. Probably US college graduates.
My daughter has a great story about working US college grad librarians being unaware that New Mexico is a state.
The conversation goes like this, from one librarian to another, over the phone:
"OK, ship those books to me at yada yada University, yada yada city, New Mexico, zip code 75555".
Responding librarian: "Ooh, cool. I didn't know you had zip codes in New Mexico, just like we do in the United States".
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That is a true story and was NOT limited to one dimbulb responding librarian--it occurred repeatedly.
How do you live your life in the USA and not know a certain set of facts? That's a rhetorical question--I know the answer.
And you thought the end was not near?
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