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4. Knife on a bottle
In a study of piercing sounds by Dr Sukhbinder Kumar and his colleagues at Newcastle University’s Medical School, the noise of a knife scraping a bottle was rated as even more annoying than fingernails on a blackboard. Other sharp and rough sounds that have been rated as highly irritating include railroad brakes, grinding machinery and a metal rake against a slate stone.