What words get your goat??

[puddicat]

Listening to some of the commentary from the olympic, and the word awesome keep rearing its ugly head,another americanism reaching our shores,and the phrase"At the end of the day"does my head in also,what gets your goat when it comes to the english language????

[tiggerblue10]

Oh and Weeal's post has just reminded me of another one.

You've just had an accident and you are trying to hold back the tears and some idiot says "are you alright"!!!

[Bun-Choice]

>>>>>>>>>>>>english<<<<<<<<<<<


that gets my goat

[bdol4886346]

How good is that, how sad is that etc. when they actually mean that`s good or that`s sad.
Also ov instead of have, My daughter`s guilty of that one.
She`s always saying I would ov done that. It `s even worse, now I look at it in writing.

[tamirra]

I hate the word my daughter uses for �100, she says a one`r. how stupid!

[Quizmonster]

Oner has meant either �1.00 or �100.00 since the 1880s in colloquial speech, so your daughter is simply being traditional, not stupid, Tamirra.

[Quizmonster]

It has just occurred to me that, if you tell her it's rather old-fashioned, Tamirra, she may well stop using it, which should please you.