Words that get on your nerves

Talkie-walkies, eh, @noisette47

 

An then you get posh sorts trying to do the glottal stop. They'd have as much chance managing the khoisan click.

 

On spot!

 

That’d be Nigel Kennedy.

 

People at work who walk past saying how are you, or alright then, and not really listening to the answer. Try responding with suicidal or dying and most walk on for quite a way before giving you a funny look as something percolates into their consciousness.

 

Anyways. There is no 's' on anyway.

A lot of authors now use re-double in the writing of books instead of double, which is what they mean. Re-double to me means quadruple.

 

So I hate it when people start every sentence with 'so'. So why do they do that ? So you don't need to put 'so' before everything you say.
"So I weeded the herbaceous border today." "So" this and "So" that ...

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Redouble (without a hyphen) is a legitimate word, meaning "intensify, increase, make or grow greater or more intense or numerous" (Concise Oxford Dictionary).

 

Pre-book, pre-order … what is the function of pre? I even once saw in the supermarket a packet of pre-grated cheese. That should have been a block of cheese. But it wasn’t.

 

Just splitting hairs @Alan Clark. The quote below is from Oxford English languages.

re·double
[riːˈdʌb(ə)l]
verb

1. make or become much greater, more intense, or more numerous:
   "we will redouble our efforts to reform agricultural policy" · "pressure to solve the problem has redoubled"

 

There's a whole generation which seems able to fit the word "literally" into every sentence. Like "I was literally gob-smacked" (now, there's a thought..)

 

How about "I was like literally gob smacked)

 

Decimate used to indicate reduction by some large unspecified amount.
It originally meant and to me still does mean to reduce by one tenth.

 

As well as the glottal stop there’s that rising intonation at the end of a sentence, Antipodean style, though some who speak like this have never been further south than the Isle of Wight.