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Default OT: What words or phrases annoy you?

On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 5:36:57 PM UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
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.


Jabbed instead of vaccinated - presumably, a tabloid sub-editor's term to assist those readers too stupid to cope with words of more than one syllable.

Elderly - makes me grind my teeth. Why not just say "old"?

Passed away, passed on, passed over or left us. FFS, if you mean died, say so!