Words and phrases I will not use/hate

[VectraMan]

They're inconsistent: It's not "got my kicks on rowte 66".

And what did they call their Star Trek character? Not Darta.

Stupid Americans.

[Ardesco]

When you try and use them I'd have thought.

I now have an image of an Aussie construction worker desperatly trying to cut wood with a network router and looking very confused in my head.

[thunderlizard]

"Touch base with you!"

yes! I don't mind just "touch base" so much. But "touch base with..." - baseball doesn't work like that!

[cheezdog]

How do you distinguish between a router (for cutting wood) and a router (for networking)?

Crazy Aussies......

Ooooh I thought of another that I got a laugh out of.

There doesn't seem to be any difference in the pronunciation between Oral and Aural. We say Oral more like Orral, as you'd pronounce Corral?

I heard someone talking about Oral sex.. and I was sitting there trying to work out how that (Aural sex) would be possible, or how painful it would be.. or whether it just another name for phone sex.

[wurzel]

Those one word abbreviations for songs/films/tv shows that only Islington luvvie types ever used to say but now seem spectacularly overused

e.g. Strictly = Strictly Come Dancing

[DodgyAgent]

I know this is a physical action but winking really annoys me. A lot of recruitment agents do it.

and

"rain check"

[NotAllThere]

"Please do the needful"

[d000hg]

"the same" (another specialty from India I think)

[Shimano105]

"laters"

"having a mare"

"delish"

"I'm loving this...<whatever>"

"whatever"

"proper good"

"yeah, no"

[EternalOptimist]

'tastic