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  • HoofHearted
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    Originally posted by Gibbon View Post
    Its your round!
    "Its" when it should be "it's"

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  • SimonMac
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    Stop saying "no worries"! I don't care if you're worried or not!
    No bother

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  • Gibbon
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    Its your round!

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  • SueEllen
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    "Whatever"

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  • La Petite Valse
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    A project manager used to always start his meetings with "okay..."

    But, instead of pronouncing it okay he would, bizarrely, pronounce it "hock-eye" instead. Maybe he had some kind of speech impediment, or something, but it really got my goat.

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  • HoofHearted
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    So, beginning a sentence with a conjunction really gets my goat

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  • jamesbrown
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    "Don't worry about a thing
    'Cause every little thing gonna be all right
    Singin': "Don't worry about a thing
    'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

    Rise up this mornin'
    Smile with the risin' sun
    Three little birds
    Pitch by my doorstep
    Singin' sweet songs
    Of melodies pure and true
    Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou")

    Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing
    'Cause every little thing gonna be all right"
    Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing
    'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

    Rise up this mornin'
    Smiled with the risin' sun
    Three little birds
    Pitch by my doorstep
    Singin' sweet songs
    Of melodies pure and true
    Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"

    Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
    Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!"
    Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" – I won't worry!
    "'Cause every little thing gonna be all right"

    Singin': "Don't worry about a thing
    'Cause every little thing gonna be all right"
    I won't worry!
    Singin': "Don't worry about a thing
    'Cause every little thing gonna be all right"
    Singing: "Don't worry about a thing (Don't worry about a thing)
    'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    Stop saying "no worries"! I don't care if you're worried or not!
    "No worries" means "Do not worry yourself, I'm happy to do it" ,unless it's in the context of Hakuna Matata.

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  • Archangel
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    Happy days.

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  • malvolio
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    I am guilty of "no worries" and I've picked up "no bother" in more recent years.
    Odd. I went the other way!

    Given the lack of proper English these days (hey, I'm old, I was taught this stuff...) little winds me up. Fake Jamaican by some dope from Bristol or estuary English done badly by 90% of non-Londoners trying to be hip are way more irritating.

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