Words that get on your nerves

Mrs Shiney's father had a small business in India and she went to school there and ended up getting used to English spoken the way they did there. They didn't switch on (or turn on) the lights. They opened them.

It was different for myself as, being brought up in London, it depended on which sort of lighting we spoke about. The street lighting where our school was had only gas lighting and they were 'lit up' by the gas lighter when he came round on his bicycle.