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What really grinds your gears?

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Zorba Nov 2012 2:26pm, 12 Nov 2012 575 posts	Quote Pin Zorba ....Oh and those new Scotland change strips..Milk cartons in bad hair cuts
Winded Nov 2012 12:49pm, 13 Nov 2012 283 posts	Quote Pin Winded Bus drivers who go halfway past my bike, indicate and pull into the kerb. Closely beaten by bus drivers who squash me between bus & kerb without bothering to indicate. Three times in the last 24 hours, do they wear blinkers or something?
CStar Nov 2012 1:01pm, 13 Nov 2012 1,013 posts	Quote Pin CStar Report them to the bus company. It's really dangerous.
ChrisHB Nov 2012 9:02pm, 13 Nov 2012 8,125 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Tedious adverts that, when you think they are finally over, introduce another episode with the words "And now." As in, "And now, in 17 new poisonous smells."
Hamsterbolt Nov 2012 9:08pm, 13 Nov 2012 12,717 posts	Quote Pin Hamsterbolt people who WALK slow, and people waiting for a class when some of the group stand on the left and some on the right so you're forced to barge through the middle.
Wine Legs Nov 2012 9:28pm, 13 Nov 2012 3,150 posts	Quote Pin Wine Legs The use of till or til instead of until. Grrrrrr.
JenL Nov 2012 9:34pm, 13 Nov 2012 23,005 posts	Quote Pin JenL Why would that annoy you? I think they're approximately contemporary with each other in the history of English but I'll have to check. It's like when people get vexed about "fall" vs "autumn" on the grounds that it's "an Americanism" - we had "fall" first in English. Of course you're still perfectly free to dislike it and you don't have to use it but there's nothing wrong with it
Red Squirrel Nov 2012 9:40pm, 13 Nov 2012 4,145 posts	Quote Pin Red Squirrel People with ridiculous double-barrelled last names. Why don't they just use one bit of it if it sounds silly? I occasionally have to ring someone at one of our suppliers whose name is overloaded with syllables in the first part and lacking in the second. Something like: Amelia Fartingbottom-Po (which actually sounds better than their real name).
Wine Legs Nov 2012 9:59pm, 13 Nov 2012 3,151 posts	Quote Pin Wine Legs Dammit, I've been discussing becoming WineLegs-Binks when we get married... Unfortunately our real double barrel name would have even more syllables. And as for till... I suppose it's alright, if you like that sort of thing, but it annoys me. And that's what this thread is all about. The word is until or, I suppose, 'til, if you must.
JenL Nov 2012 10:02pm, 13 Nov 2012 23,007 posts	Quote Pin JenL Hahaha - you said "alright" But the point is that both "until" and "till" have been around for a very long time so it isn't possible to say that either is "the word". Multiple syllables are good, though, especially in German words.