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My greatest 'vocabulary' irritation ("of teeth gnashing, give me a machine gun and let me exterminate the bloody lot of 'em!") is the trendy 'fashion' of the terminally tragic to deliberately mispronounce the 'TH' sound.
As in: 'I think' becomes 'I fink',
or, for a slightly longer example: 'I don't think he thought it through' becomes 'I don't fink he fought it frew'.
Once-upon-a-time, any knuckle dragging neanderthal who spoke like this would've been pitied or ridiculed (Jamie Rednapp - I'm looking at you), but what was once a 'Speech Impediment' has now actually become an 'Accent' for tossers wishing to sound 'Cool'.
Speak 'English' ya *******
Yeah, bufor dem offus dat come from Dagnum it aintapediment itsa Creedenchal .... ask my mate El Tel.
If you want to, you can.
And, if you can, you must!
"Cheers" when Americans say it and 'synergy'. Though the latter is used less often now, it has always struck me as shorthand for 'I have nothing to say but I must make it look like great things are happening'.
Also, 'value-added'--I see it increasingly used, and the aspect that I find absurd is that nobody defines said value in the first place.
"Hero" is overused to a point that it is now meaningless.
"British Army" because we do not have one. The laughable numbers mean it is strictly speaking a self defence force, we no-longer have a standing army.
"Royal Navy" because it is just a fishery protection fleet.
"Politician" because they are actually just a lot of self aggrandising criminals.
"Comedy" because sod all of it is funny!
"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock!"
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