Words you find annoying.

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A couple of Americanisms I find annoying:

"I could care less" - NO! It should be "I couldn't care less", as in "I don't care, and couldn't possibly care any less".

The way cinema announcers say the date - "Finding Nemo; In Cinemas, OCTOBER TEN"... Grrrrr... It's "October the Tenth", or even "the Tenth of October".

Actually, I don't mind the second one too much - it's perfectly valid in America. But it's started creeping into English advertisements now, where it does irk. The first one is just weird though - how come so many people have inverted the meaning of the sentence? HUH? :D
 
I honestly get annoyed by words wit two same consonants and -le at the end.. for example: giggle, wiggle, jiggle, bubble, little..

don't ask me why, but I jus get annoyed by words like that.. lol..
 
That's not what tinkle means in the US.

We say "right" in the US, too.

Duke, one brother says supposably (replace the a with an e; does not matter), and another says probly instead of probably.
 
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