The most annoying expressions...

All solid working class words, and there's nowt wrong with 'em.

Well, the thread is about annoying expressions, and those all annoy me. So ... 

All solid working class words, and there's nowt wrong with 'em.

Aye! Well said lass! 

Aye! Well said lass! 

Again, I'm not looking for people to agree with me. I'm just replying to the title of the thread.

Again, I'm not looking for people to agree with me. I'm just replying to the title of the thread.

And fair play to you. You just have to realize that your opinion will be mildly offensive to anyone living in the entire top third of the country 

And fair play to you. You just have to realize that your opinion will be mildly offensive to anyone living in the entire top third of the country 

I'm not too worried. Most of us use a fair number of the expressions/words/phrases that have been brought up in this thread, myself included. There's no point getting upset about it! 

(I have relatives in the north of the country who don't use those words, by the way, so it's not universal!)

Again, I'm not looking for people to agree with me. I'm just replying to the title of the thread.

I think you missed the humour that was intended toward Mrs R!  I wasn't intending to have a go at you

'Tea' instead of 'supper.'

Ugh, I cannot stand the word 'supper'.  It always makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a Laura Ingalls Wilder book.

Another is "If you catch my meaning".  Because, apparently, I am too dense to have understood your fabulously witty comment and need an extra moment to figure it out.

Aye! Well said lass! 

Lol!  Myself, I say 'tea' (for the evening meal) and 'lounge' sometimes - not because of any particular attachment to either word, but rather to be better understood & to assimilate.  No one I know here says 'supper' for the evening meal (unless it's a snack just before bedtime), and 'sitting room' ?!!!  No, not that either.  'Sitting room' sounds far too posh (and slightly old fashioned), and therefore, annoying.

I grew up saying 'dinner' for the evening meal (except for Sunday dinner which was at lunchtime) - but here that means lunch, and would be a source of confusion.  And 'living room' and for the sofa - we called it a 'divan' in my childhood home.  I think one of my neighbors here calls the sofa, the 'settee', but I've not heard settee used that much - just IME.

Back to the 'fixing to' thing, sometimes that also comes out as 'fittin' to'.

Back to the 'fixing to' thing, sometimes that also comes out as 'fittin' to'.

That's how they said it in Louisiana, too. UGH!

Ugh, I cannot stand the word 'supper'.  It always makes me feel like I'm in the middle of a Laura Ingalls Wilder book.

GENAU!
Or the Beverly Hillbillies!

GENAU!
Or the Beverly Hillbillies!

I swear I don't remember them saying 'supper' on The Beverly Hillbillies!! Really! Did they?? I think of them having 'dinner' more than 'supper.'

I swear I don't remember them saying 'supper' on The Beverly Hillbillies!! Really! Did they?? I think of them having 'dinner' more than 'supper.'

LOL... i have no idea!  But to me, 'supper' sounds like a hillbilly kind of word! 

Like 'vittles'!

LOL... i have no idea!  But to me, 'supper' sounds like a hillbilly kind of word! 

Like 'vittles'!

LOL! They definitely had vittles. At the fancy eatin' table.

Maybe it's different in the US from the UK? Because I really don't think my family is hillbillyish! 

Maybe it's different in the US from the UK? Because I really don't think my family is hillbillyish! 

Could it be regional? The only person in my family who ever said supper was my dad's mom - who was from Kentucky!

Could it be regional? The only person in my family who ever said supper was my dad's mom - who was from Kentucky!

We didn't really speak in Americanisms ever, so whether or not it's regional within the US doesn't really apply. I just meant that I don't think it's hillbillyish in the UK. At least I hope not! My family have always called the evening meal 'supper'! Unless it was a formal thing with guests - then it was 'dinner,' as in a 'dinner party.'