Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

I've made skittles vodka a few times, it's not a bad use of cheap shit vodka. Admittedly I haven't done it for about 16 years. I've made chili vodka a few times since then though.

"folx" instead of "folks" is kind of annoying

"Nosh"

sounds like someone just discovered food blogs and now they're some sorta jet-setting restaurant critic

it's yiddish

rmde

"I think lynch meant...."

Οὖτις, is that a new word for readymade?

Donegal full of Scots obv

Scoti I think you mean.

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, July 26, 2017 5:13 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I doubt I dont

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 26, 2017 5:17 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

iirc donegal is the one place in the republic where "ulster scots" is spoken which i suppose points to a scottish influx back in ye olden imperial days. also lots of scottish people of irish descent are of donegal descent (you can get a bus to donegal weekly from the gorbals) and id imagine quite a few have maintained links.
my great uncle jimmy trudging around a donegal graveyard in the rain looking for his grandparents' graves and not finding them, me not wanting to be a spoilsport and inform him that Harley is an anglicization and it's possible the name might've been there rendered differently springs to mind.

Yep

iirc donegal is the one place in the republic where "ulster scots" is spoken which i suppose points to a scottish influx back in ye olden imperial days

Do they speak Ulster Scots in Donegal? I mean what is Ulster Scots other than Ulster English with the occasional Scots sprinkled about? There's a definite Scottishness about (some) Donegal accents but maybe that was always there.

also lots of scottish people of irish descent are of donegal descent (you can get a bus to donegal weekly from the gorbals) and id imagine quite a few have maintained links.

Pretty much all of them that I know. Though a lot of those are related, often fairly distantly!

... Scots words sprinkled about, that is.

that's a contentious question!

re: nosh

Never tire of revisiting this classic -
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

re: Ulster Scots

I believe it is still spoken in a few parts of Donegal (mainly towards the Derry end of things) but I've never encountered it in the wild

I thought nosh was polari, given the second meaning here

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nosh

But i guess polari took words from everywhere.

(um, should've read number none's link first)

I have no problem with nosh, but "nom nom" needs to stay out the actual world and stick to cutesy spaces like food Instagram and the Rachel Maddow show.

Nosh always sounded annoyingly British to me so I'm surprised it's Yiddish

If something is annoying British it's usually Hindi or Urdu.

Thankful that the most popular deli when I was growing up in Minneapolis advertised itself with the slogan 'kibbitz and nosh'.

(xp) annoyingly, dammit

I love Yiddish, the words are always satisfyingly full-bodied

tchotchke is a good yiddish word

kibbitz and nosh, kibbitz and nosh, im gonna get me some kibbitz and nosh

I didn't even know nosh was used in the US.

http://s1124.photobucket.com/user/LouFamFun/media/LouFamFun006/IMG_4631_zpsvhgzqpjr.jpg.html

They use it in Kentucky even

https://www.thebrothersdeli.com

If something is annoying British it's usually Hindi or Urdu.

― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:48

Examples?

Can't get more British than Blighty!

Actually, there's not as much as I thought, pukka is another one, khazi isn't.

bungalow!

it's hindi, tho not particularly annoying

It is pretty British. I thought a nice cup o' cha, might be from the Raj but it's Chinese, it seems.

Nosh always sounded annoyingly British to me so I'm surprised it's Yiddish

This sounds like a lost Mike D. lyric.

(xp) some say Hindi though.

lots of food (inc.curry and chutney) and fabrics (calico) and religious terms (avatar): plus pyjamas, gymkhana, shampoo, juggernaut, pundit, parah, thug, verandah, doolally and jungle!

also chota peg, tho i don't think anyone really says this any more

wiki sez cushy, khaki and loot also

Dekko too. I've been misspelling it.

Cushty however is Romani. Since I brought up 'pukka' and plunged us into Jamie Oliver territory.

other romani words: chav, cosh, nark, pal, shiv, skip (as waste-container), togs… and lollipop!

(some of these arrived via polari)

I was using pukka in the tec in achill from 1995 onwards on account of a Dulwich cousin. Never took off.

Mufti, boycott.

Think we claim boycott tbh

... and Tory.

he's ours now

http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_700,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/webimage/1.8454041.1490208250!/image/image.jpg

Boyce is in my Tories I love list tbh

Boycs, fucking spellcheck

"you do you"

a friend said this to me after i disagreed with his assessment that twin peaks should've been 9 episodes instead of 18.

This phrase sucks and is as bad as "live and let live" - the ultimate cop out

even worse "you do you, boo"

^ ah that sucks

You do you and live and let live are excellent concepts and reactions to differences of opinion

You may disagree. You do you.