Irritating Ways of Speaking

What turns of speech really get your goat?

Do you cringe everytime someone throws a "like" into their sentence, or tacks a "whatever" onto the end of everything they say?

To start off...

I can't stand the phrase "at the end of the day". The end of what day? What purpose does this phrase serve?

Also, when people add "you know" or "y'know" to the end of everything they say. What's the point, you know?

One other annoyance is when someone says "I could care less" when it should actually be "I couldn't care less." The first makes no sense!

Anyone got any speech pet peeves to share?

I hate when they say like over and over. Like is only suppose to be used when it shoudl not like all the time like this.

*guilty of the "like"* lol. I hate it when people say ain't. That really annoys me. Also I hate it when people pronounce the i in either and neither. I know it's not wrong but it just annoys me.

lol sorry, i say aint all the time

It annoys me when people tack an 's' onto the end of anyway, making it 'anyways'.

Oh and I hate that to. I hate when people write you notes and its all in IM and you cant read it or anything and they get mad becuase you write back what you think they said and come to find out what you thought it said and was something totally different

Yeah, text speak is something that really gets on my nerves (and shouldn't be done on a forum like this, for that matter! :D)

But as this is about speech...I dislike it when people bring text-speak over into spoken language.

My sister will often say 'lol' out loud, for example if someone says something funny, instead of laughing she will say 'lol'. It was amusing for the first few times, but now it's a bit annoying...

My sistr and her friends are like that and they are only 11. they will speak like that and go lol when I dont know what they say

How about when people say "...you've got another thing coming!"

Ugh!

It's think, not thing! "...you've got another think coming!"

The first doesn't make sense, especially when you consider the phrase is usually preceded by something like "If you think you're going out dressed like that..."

My dad said that he is from Alabama and can say words the way he wanted and he says gooder all the time.

That's funny because my spanish teacher says that the British speak english beautifully and that American's speak it horribly. And she's american too so... XD

I hate it when people drop the glottal stop - that's drop the 't' in words, so a word like 'butter' becomes 'bu'er'. Although I know I'm guilty of doing this on occasion, I dislike the way it makes people sound...

I've never heard people do that. I hat eit when people say ain't.. ahh so annoying or when they say I ain't got nothing. Thats really annoying, I only know like two people who say that though.

I think the glottal stop might be an English thing...it's very common in a lot of British accents to hear people dropping their t's.

I say bu'er and bu'on a lot. There are several speech traits that are common where I am from. Several people say worsh instead of wash or torlet instead of toilet.

Drownded or drownding is another I can't stand, as is drame for past tense of dream.

The woman I am living with now frequently exhibits all of these improper speech habits.

One I am guilty of that drives me crazy, but I can't stop it, is pronouncing measure as maysure. I don't do it with treasure or pleasure. I know it's a mispronunciation, but I can't break myself of it.

ok.. so this isnt a like general speach thingy
but it is where I come from because uhm.. theres a town thats called
AUBURNDALE..
right..? Pronounced Aw-burn-dale
well.. people are hickish around here and they go

Ar-burn-dale

and it drives me insane.. plus.. a neighboring county is called polk county.. and they go "poke county' and it drives me insane.

The town I live in is Valparaiso, pronounced Val-pa-rai-so. I used to be guilty of this before I moved here. A lot of people say Val-prai-so or Val-pri-so. My friend lives in Merrillville, pronounced Merr-ill-ville. A lot of people call it Maryville. And correct the people who live there.

I hate when people say irregardless. Not a word. It's just regardless. It's particularly annoying when people who are more educated than me use that "word".