Words that get on your nerves

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  1. shiney

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    I've just come across a word(s?) that I have never heard before. It was on BBC early news about the Super Bowl (is that supposed to be one or two words? :scratch:) and it was "three-peat" which apparently means for a third time. :doh:
     
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      I’ve just looked at the BBC news website and at the top of the page are three articles about this Super Bowl. Ahead of and above any British news.

      I don’t even know which sport this Super Bowl is about? Netball? (what the Americans call basketball)? Football? (what the Americans call soccer)? Or giant goldfish?
       
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        Interestingly and more appropriately in the 6 Nations Rugby; Ireland could be on for a "three peat" just another 4 matches to win.
         
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        Surely it should be a rerepeat. :)
         
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          You mean a burp?
           
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            SuperBowl - the NFL - National Football League - American Football - annual final. Fascinating game, if long-winded, complicated, brutal and challenging.
             
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            Nah sorry, if I want to see a bunch of men knocking the Rubia tinctorum out of each other I can do it for free any closing time round here.
             
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            The use of the word "wrong doing" which is now often used to describe an illegal action. The constant " I apologise " when someone has just been caught out but isn't the least bit sorry for what they have said/done. At the opposite end, the word "hypocrisy" isn't used often enough.
             
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              Saying sorry makes it all better, no?
               
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              """ASK""" some folks no clue how to pronounce it.
               
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              Someone I know always referred to certain people as Near-do-wells not sure how you spell it, but it always got a laugh.:biggrin:

              Mostly they were just Wrong-uns:)
               
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                Ne'er do well? Just cuts out the 'v'? Known in this house as lowlives ;-)
                 
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                  pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                  Its not a term often used around building sites and those kind of places hence the laughs, we usually used other terms that cant be used here.

                  Thanks for the proper spelling.:blue thumb:
                   
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                    The term 'Ne'er do wells' always makes me think of Fagin .
                     
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