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Default OT: What words or phrases annoy you?

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:55:48 +0100, Ralph Mowery wrote:

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Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.


I bet you do not like people parking in a drive way, and driving on the
park way.


I prefer them to do that, what I hate is people parking on the road and not bothering to own a drive.

And we don't say "parkway" in the UK. It's a road.