What really grinds your gears?

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Feb 2018
8:06pm, 18 Feb 2018
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cackleberry
We didn't have homework at primary school, apart from spelling and times tables.

Kids that young shouldn't have homework.
Feb 2018
11:55am, 19 Feb 2018
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Wobbling
Members of my team (who have never lived North of Watford) referring to tea & coffee as ‘brew’.

It’s not the term ‘brew’ I object to, it’s the borrowing of a very northern term by southerners. I think they picked it up from a troublesome ex member of staff from Liverpool.

I know this is irritational but it winds me up.
Feb 2018
11:59am, 19 Feb 2018
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Velociraptor
My Scottish uncle referring to tea as "a coopa chah" used to wind me up in exactly the same way.
Feb 2018
2:15pm, 20 Feb 2018
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Jono.
I used the word brew at least on 5 occasions yesterday
Feb 2018
2:35pm, 20 Feb 2018
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Wobbling
You live north of Watford don’t you Jono? That’s ok, it’s the adoption of regional dialect that grinds my gears. I think it’s because it sounds false, like me babbling on about balm cakes and calling everyone ‘me duck’.
Feb 2018
2:36pm, 20 Feb 2018
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Wobbling
...when I was born in London to an Irish mother and have never lived north of Bedford.
Feb 2018
2:38pm, 20 Feb 2018
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Markymarkmark
My very Northern son (aka PJH92) lives in Surrey. I assume he probably grids gears just because the people there don't understand him.

However, he now talks about "dinner" to mean evening meal, as opposed to "tea". Tea now means a brew, whereas brew is linked to the pub....

Corrupted! (However, I'm a Southerner in long term exile to Yorkshire. I have an equally confused set of words in my vocabulary!)
Feb 2018
2:48pm, 20 Feb 2018
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Wobbling
My Dad spent a lot of his youth in Manchester. Dinner was at lunchtime and tea was an evening meal. I still sometimes lapse and call our evening meal tea. A fiercely posh friend of mine called it ‘supper’, to add an extra rarified element to the dinner/tea debate.
Feb 2018
2:55pm, 20 Feb 2018
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Wine Legs
Ah yes. My dad (from Lancashire) calls the evening meal tea, and so therefore do I on occasion, much to Binks' mirth.

Wobbling, I think they're barm cakes, not balm as in a variety of lip salve ;-)
although don't quote me on that, I am completely confused on my English vocab. Pants, trousers, undies, togs, glad wrap, chilly bin, eskie, duvet, doona, lux, vacuum, hoover, belgium, bach, crib.

Anyone who can give me accurate definitions for the last three deserves a prize (except for Jenelopy)
Feb 2018
3:03pm, 20 Feb 2018
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McGoohan
Supper is a meal to be eaten once you're in your slippers and pyjamas

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