When I worked for the city, I had the pleasure of explaining to foreigners, more than once, that no one local knew where “ver-SIGH” was, because the town was pronounced “ver-SAYLES” in Kentucky.

:)

I don’t think I’ll ever run out of annoyances Elizabeth. But education is always a gripe for me. Ever changing and ever diminishing returns. I often wonder if state education is really just 12 years of state sponsored childminding and if tertiary education is a ploy to keep unemployment percentages down.

I recall one government in Australia in the 70’s that heavily subsidised tertiary education, then proudly announced that they had solved youth unemployment. End result; thousands of waiters and waitresses with Arts degrees.

Re geography, someone once said ‘War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.’

But one can’t criticize the Yanks; far as I can make out, geography as in where is this or that country doesn’t feature on the UK school curriculum – that would count as ‘facts’ – shudder, think of the damage to creativity & self-expression. Besides, it’s unnecessary when you ‘can look it up on the internet.’

As you can tell, those two words really hit my ‘Annoyed’ button: creativity & self-expression – Grrrr.

I’m sure you can add other delights to your list, ekkp them coming!