What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 2

LOL! I guess you played it off well, though, if your VP thought you understood. I often feel terrible when I can't understand someone, because I know it's not their fault and it's frustrating to have to repeat yourself a hundred times (for me and for them!)

OK, new irritant for debate: "Job one." How about first priority, if that's what they mean? And isn't it awful when ad slogans sneak into everyday usage that way, probably via sports announcers?

DD#1 used to make fun of "for everything else there's mastercard" but i think she thought it meant a bank of free money. She would itemize how much stuff cost, but then finish off with "for everything else there's mastercard," not realizing that what she was saying was, "if you can't afford it, take out a high interest loan."

Someone may have already posted it , but I hate hearing " Cool " in response to everything .How intelligent is that? digger

Cool!!

Lordy , I give up . All youse guys are nuts . L o f l m arse o . D

That's been around for a very long time!

I use "cool" as an all purpose cover word when I can't think of anything else to say.

Yeh and my kid is 52 yrs old . His whole family (2 collage grads and a civil engineer wife ) all use it . Grrr , it must come from her side of family .ha ha . D

Sign of the times.

Maria - I have a couple of southern friends who live in the Deep South. When they call me on the phone and my DH answers, I can tell it's one of them by the look of panic on his face. He can't understand a thing they are saying! LOL

Here's something that's always bothered me.
To explain: a friend of mine lost her Father. I said the usual "I'm so sorry!" and she turned to me and said "what are you sorry for, it isn't your fault". That got me thinking about the whole saying "sorry" thing. Now I'm afraid to say anything!!

Say "sad about your loss", that might be better.

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the word cool to me means something is almost cold

I always use 'cool'!

guess you are a cool guy, brrrrrrrrrrrrr :-)))

Hee hee.

I can use cool and mean it...I mean it's winter 9 months of the year up here...LOL

cool!

Very cool! A funny pronunciation in this town is "melk" for milk---we would take lunch count when I first started teaching---kids would either say "hot lunch" or "melk".

I use 'mittens' alot for the same reason as threegardeners. I luv it when some people say 'middens' ^_^ I guess when you never have to wear them you can call them whatever you want ^_^ I also like the accent that uses 'u's instead of 'o's like bruum for broom. It is actually is a better word for a manual vacuum when you think about it. BRUUM! BRUUM! I have actually changed it to bruum in my dictionary and call it that now. (Tee hee and wha thinks Canucks use to many 'u's)

Cape Cod natives say "rum" for "room"--and "tore" for "tour." At least to my (formerly) Californian ears.
Not that there's anything wrong with that ;-)

How do you guys pronounce chocolate? CHOCK-lit, or CHAW-klit? The latter for me.

CHOCK-lit for a westerner like me.

Philly people say that too. So does my younger son. Don't know where he picked that up!

chaw-klit for me

CHAW-klit is how it's said in Noo Yawk.

Okay, what do you guys call carbonated beverages? I grew up calling it "pop" but in California they don't know what that means. It's soda here - you order it by its brand name when you're at a restaurant.

I think soda is a west coast thing. Soda in San Francisco, Soda in LA, Soda in Seattle.
When I was a kid, it was Soda-Pop. Unless it was Root Beer - then it was Root Beer!

soda

soda here!

When I was a kid , in Texas , it was sody pop . D

In the greater boston area (within the rt 128 loop), it's tonic. The soda/pop dividing line seems to be around Pittsburgh--and here in Fairmont, which is directly south of Pittsburgh, it's about half and half soda vs pop.

i grew up inside 128 and call it soda - tonic sounds like medicine and as for pop - pop goes the weasel or chippy:)

I think tonic is a slightly old fashioned way to say it, although that's what we always called it as kids (I'm 40). Soda had ice cream in it and pop was a sound. There are a number of words which are unique to the greater boston area, of which we are inordinately proud. :)

We call it pop here in Michigan. Years ago I'd moved to Philadelphia. Went to a restaurant and asked the waitress what kind of pop they had. She had such a cross expression. Yikes! I learned to call it soda in a hurry.

It's pop up here too.
And we say chock-lat

Soda.
When I visited New Orleans they called it a "cool drink", pronounced "kewl drank".

Hey, I'm back and everyone in Denver was making fun of my Jooisey accent. I said "I don't have an accent, I have no idea what you're tawlking about"

Hey Jen
A coworker from Jersey tawlks to me too.