So what?

[Silver_Shiney]

Starting every sentence with "well, I mean" is guaranteed to make my hackles rise

[Ranchi]

'With respect' often means something different & annoys me because it is insincere.

[qbman1]

With the greatest respect, it isn't !!!

[Silver_Shiney]

I would respectfully suggest that Cubie is correct

[Not so ancient mariner]

Would it be disrespectful to suggest that this is a rare event

[towny44]

I would think it might even be a first!!

[Silver_Shiney]

Almost unique, even

(Did you see what I did there )

[CaroleF]

I find myself correcting the announcers on the radio - even on Radio 4 they make errors, many of which have been mentioned. For example, my bugbears are - different to, less instead of fewer when referring to people, and the number of times you hear 'very unique' or 'almost unique' - for goodness sake it's either unique or it isn't! When teaching around the Portsmouth area I thought it was just in the south that you heard 'should of', 'could of', 'would of' but it seems nation wide now. I used to write 'should have' and show the youngsters how it can be abbreviated, 'should've' but it didn't seem to help their speech, I still heard 'should of' etc.

As someone has already said, don't get me started on apostrophes! Didn't any greengrocers go to school?

[qbman1]

Cabbage's or Tomatoe's anyone ?!

[Mervyn and Trish]

They are idiot's when they put apostrophe's in the wrong place's. I also once saw "By one, get one free". And that was on a proper printed sign.

[Quizzical Bob]

By and large that's by the by.

[Ranchi]

The nonsense 'to pre order' was mentioned in a newspaper today.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Did you pre order your copy?