PET HATES

The modern trendy way of speaking, noticably by women more so, of raising the pitch of their voice at the end of a statement to turn it into a question.  i.e.----I went down to the shops today? The store had just what I was looking for? But getting home took ages because of the amount of traffic?   

And on the statements-into-questions go..... I first noticed it on BBC Radio Berkshire phone-ins and since been spreading everywhere.

Paul 

Stephen Fry has a name for that, something like Australian Accent Quotation, not sure if that's 100 per cent correct but something on those lines. I notice younger people seem to be doing it a lot more. Funnily enough our two sons do it all the time, the two girls not at all.

 

Another pet hate - use of the word "Absolutely" when they mean "Yes"