Things people say/words that irrationally annoy you

"brought" ugh shudder.

PIN number- even Dominic Littlewood said it on the One Show. i was quite tempted to write in and complain. it is not a personal identification number number.

also dislike DD, DS, DH etc and hubby, calling boys little man.

Mispronounciation of "th" as "f." Unfortunately H and niece do it and it drives me mad. "I've had free pieces of toast." [spontaneously combusts]

Also, "cuz" for "cousin," mixing up itch/scratch and teach/learn. "I'm just itching my leg." No, no you are not! You are scratching it!

'little man' <shudder>

and i don't know why, but when you see DS1, DS2 etc, it makes the irritation increase ten-fold

He called me/him/her. As in "She was calling her behind her back"

WHAT? They called you what? It doesn't even make sense.

Raaaaaaaaaah, common common common. ?

The 'no?' thing is odd. I've seen it on here quite a few times ?

'At the end of the day' drives me crazy. So many people say it that I'm trying to get used to it,but I can't

My sister does the thing Nick mentioned. It's very annoying

My boyfriend says 'You're joking' to information that is obviously not funny or a joke. He doesn't just say it the once,but many times when I'm telling him something. I think I need help as it makes me really angry when 'you're joking' keeps falling out of his mouth.

Mispronounciation of "th" as "f" for me too, my colleague does this and is always telling people to take free milligrams instead of three milligrams and says Cafrine instead of Catherine. It has the same effect on me as someone drawing their fingernails down a blackboard.

I would like to know why it has become fashionable to call everyone "hun". It makes my skin crawl. I spent the day on friday with a friend who kept calling me hun and every time her phone rang she answered it "Hi hun.... yes hun.... no problem hun" WTF????? I felt like ramming the word hun down her throat.

I got really annoyed by a sign at a soft play place the other day that said "This bin is for nappys only". Grrr.

"Peeps" and "me bad". I hate them both.

Don't get me started on that one. At least it was your friend - I get called/emailed "hun" by junior associates at work. Okay, our office is not particularly hierarchical but if we work on deals together they are working for me (as the senior associate). The youngsters have no respect these days ?

I've just thought of another one. Several of my friends use text-speak (which is bad enough given that I type out text messages in full and use proper punctuation ?) but the particular phrase that seems to have migrated into speech and makes me want to curl up and scream is "Hows U?" It is "How are you?"!!! ARRRRGGGHHH!

or when has it been acceptable for restaurant staff to address you as 'guys'?

or 12 year old bum-fluff faced spotty gits in currys to call you "mate" about a thousand times in one conversation.

Hun is dreadful, but "hunni" is far, far worse. It gets used a lot on another forum I frequent, and it makes me want to scratch my eyes out.

In fact, spelling anything with an i on the end gratuitously makes my fists itch.

I hate the phrase 'for my sins'. I'm not really sure why but something about it sets me on edge, usually because the person saying it thinks they are really funny when they are most definitely not.

I can't abide "how's you" and "well done you" they wind me up to the point of violence.

"My bad."

Kill, kill kill.

What the *** is Trust your tits?

What is DS1, 2, etc? The little games console things? My husband has a PS3, I call it the Pooos 3. This is probably annoying but the actual name of it doesn't bother me.

I haven't heard this for ages, but my ex used to haaaate it, and for some reason people seemed to say it to him all the time. I remember him visibly wincing, I can't believe no-one noticed it!

It is the BT breastfeeding mantra. Much needed, in a world full of shitey advice from all sides which ballses things up properly and leaves new mothers feeling crap. But I can appreciate that it probably looks a bit odd out of context ?

DD and DS are vomitous ways of referring to children "darling son" and "darling daughter" I believe, along with DH ("darling hubby")

Bleurgh ?

I didn't know that either, but everyone else seemed to so I thought I was just being dense. Glad I'm not the only one!

and DP for darling partner i believe...

and the DS1, DS2 stuff is if you have more than one. DS1 being the elder i imagine.

Purely academic you're not/your family's not originally from Eastern Europe by any chance?

You see, I quite like 'hold up'. We used to say it a lot when I was younger, so could it be a regional thing?

What I dislike irrationally is the email sign-off 'Best'.

Best what? Best wishes, best regards, best...? It's as bad as text-speak.

If you meant the sign-off sincerely, why not finish the phrase properly? Grrr.

I quite like trust your tits ? I have never given much thought to whether I trust mine or not, although thinking about it now I imagine they would be a bit rubbish at feeding a baby as there's no meat on them.

DD/DS etc is truly vomit-inducing!

Which is exactly why you should trust them because size is no measure of capacity in this regard ?

...Another one that really gets on my nerves is when people refer to companies/corporations using the plural rather than the singular. (Much happier now for having got that off my chest.)

I definitely don't trust mine. They seem to have run amok of late. ?

Most of my irrational annoyances have been covered already but I can think of one more... people who pronounce 'mischievous' as if it ends '-ious', which it clearly doesn't. Explain this to me, please, those who do it.

"Beaudiful". Ugh. Happily confined largely to older northern men, Den Perry types.

I'm starting to think I don't trust mine. My 34A bras are too big and I tried to measure them but it didn't seem to work. I worked out that I'm a 30DD ?

Mis-cheev-ee-ous you mean? I hate that too. I don't like curry-er instead of courier either.

That's the badger! Very annoying. I also gave up watching Blue Peter when Simon Groome joined the team, due to his pronunciation of 'news' as 'nooz'. Ack.

Nooz ? Now you see I quite liked Simon Groom. I liked him even more when I got older and realised he was rude.

His accent is v similar to my husband's actually, they're from the same neck of the woods. well, ish. And my husband's has got a bit Southern since he's been with moi. It's more like my mother in law's. but she doesn't say nooz I don't think. I might try and test her at Christmas.

It is imprinted on my brain that Simon Groom was from Dethick and supported Derby County. There we go. A lifetime of education and all I can remember is where Simon Sodding Groom came from ?