AIBU to get visceral ick from...

Ick is a thousand times worse than gosh, especially as it is in so many thread titles. It also sounds a lot more fake than gosh, since people have clearly picked up on it since it became a fad and decided to use it.

I sometimes use gosh in contexts where it would be rude to assume that the other person is ok with actual swearing, and people use it in front of me in the same way. It just seems like bog standard politeness.

Vile just makes me think of gimme gimme gimme

A woman I met at an evening class had a school mate whose surname was “Vile” … except she pronounced it “Vilé”. I’ve said “vilé” ever since 😂

I used to work in a school and therefore had 'gosh' inserted into my vocabulary instead of the more Anglo Saxon epithets that wanted to come out. I hate hearing Americans say 'gosh-darned' instead of god damned but only because I think that sounds horribly twee, even though I know they are doing it for roughly the same reasons I was.

Only word I really dislike utterly is 'snack'. Just call it 'eating between meals' and have done with it.

Why is one “fake” and the other isn’t?

I hate it when ppl, on the Internet say welp. It's usually Americans on reddit

I have far more respect for people who say cunt than some wannabe faking it by going “oh gosh”. Fuck off with it

Same!

Yes, I hate ‘nourish’ as well. I also hate the word ‘soup’ for some reason, so if someone refers to a nourishing soup I’m out of there.

Are these people in an Enid Blyton story?

Gosh is fake as fuck. It’s usually people trying to pretend they’re the type that don’t swear. It sounds fake because it IS fake

Side hustle. Just makes me think of MLM Huns pushing crap on their friends.

Any book that thinks it is edgy and mildly outrageous by breaking taboos or (gasp) swearing in the title. :

Why mummy drinks
The joy of big knickers
Getting older and wider.
You are f*king brilliant (italics not mine)

Yawn.

If you get repelled by language you consider ‘foul’ then that’s really no different from someone else getting repelled by ‘gosh’ - it’s still a reaction of revulsion to a word. They’re all just collections of letters and sounds, at the end of the day. None of these things are rational - we all have things that make us cringe or recoil mentally for no real reason. We can’t help these things.

For example, I don’t find the word ‘cunt’ repellent at all - in fact, I really like it. But the word ‘gosh’ makes me go ‘Urgggh’ in my head. I appreciate it isn’t the fault of the person using it and obviously I’d never tell them I hate it, but I can’t help hating it.

I use it to avoid saying God as I'm a Christian. I also use exclamations (not swearing) in other languages to make it a bit more interesting as I get bored of saying gosh.

I used to work with a young lad who hates the word "moist" oh we had such fun trying to slot it into every conversation 😅😅

I cringe when people use the word "lush" to describe something that's nice. "Ohhh that's lush..." . 😫

It just sounds so tacky.

I think gosh is ok, can't stand nom nom to describe food., or lush.

I’m with you, OP. I too hate it when people say ‘gosh’ or ‘golly’ like they’re in the Famous fucking Five. I can’t stand ‘supper’ either.

I also despise adults using the word ‘yum’ or ‘yummy’ in any context. I would probably end a date over that.

People who say ‘baby’ instead of ‘the baby’, for example when someone’s giving advice and they say something like ‘Why don’t you put baby down for his nap at 3pm after you’ve done the school run’ or ‘You’ll probably find baby will be hungry after sleeping’.

Come to think of it, I also hate the word ‘nap’, especially as a verb.

I also loathe the way people say ‘screens’ as a blanket term for technology. Just call it an XBox or an iPad or whatever the fuck it is. ‘Screens’ is meaningless; watching a film on TV is an entirely different activity from playing Red Dead Redemption on a console and chatting on social media is a different activity from internet shopping and Minecraft on a laptop is not the same as reading a book on a Kindle. Even worse, ‘screen’. I read a post on here once where someone said of their child ‘I really struggle with how much screen he wants’ and I wanted to smash things.

YAVBU to use the word “ick” unless you are a toddler in which case I’ll allow it.

Along with "nommy" or "nommy nom-nom" or anything similar.
See also "lush"
I say gosh quite often.

I’m actually with you but I wouldn’t call it vile, it does make me cringe. It’s so bloody twee.

I use gosh all the time.

Well I'm not allowed to blasheme in church in front of the children, And sometimes you just need a polite response so they do get periodically goshed.

I find it odd to get repelled from someone just for a word them use, notwithstanding derogatory/ foul / etc language, but each to their own eh. Gosh, I feel like a slice of moist cake nowb before supper. Wonder if I've any plonk to wash it down with.

I cringe when anyone says something is
Aaamazing . Or I am so excited .

I can't stand when people are describing their food and say lashings of butter, or lashings of jam. I don't think I've ever actually heard someone say it, I only ever read it but it makes my skin crawl!!