AIBU to get visceral ick from...

I agree. Didn’t it come from Miranda Hart?

I use gosh all the time...not sure why people think it's fake - it's just automatic. I'm not really posh and I tend to say 'bab' a lot because I'm from the West Midlands.

I can't stand sweet treat, light bite, cooking up a storm and I can't stand it when people keep going on about dahl when anyone says they have no money for food. Oh and 'foody'...as if the person likes and appreciates food more than everyone else. Oh and 'layer up'...it sounds so earnest and bossy. Well most people on mumsnet seem earnest and bossy really.

This... I want to punch people who say nom-nom or even worse nummy. I get irrationally angry about it.

Lots of food-related expressions here (I wonder why? Must be some reason lost in the evolutionary past?).

I hate: meal; all the trimmings; roasties; toasties; Yorkies; pud; sweet; plonk; vino; a nice drop of red; tucking in; get in my belly; cuppa; steaming mugs of various things (kudos to everyone who mentioned hearty/nourishing soups); scran; pack-ups; sarnies; biccies; a “lovely spread”… Don’t have a problem with the food itself!

I can’t stand the word ‘yummy’ (unless it’s being said to a young child). In fact adults using baby language/voices for effect makes me want to jump out of a high window. Also dislike adults in dungarees, but not as strongly as baby talk.

I don’t understand why it makes me cringe, either. I think that’s the definition of an ‘ick’ though, isn’t it? As I understand it, it’s meant to be something that provokes an irrationally strong reaction for reasons you can’t really explain.

I only ever hear "rip him/her a new one" on here. I'm not a nun by any means but it makes me flinch. It reminds me of reading harrowing accounts of ex-porn performers and their life-long intimate injuries.

Re 'moist' there's a hummus company in Bristol called this.

"Oh gosh, Josh" would work much better anyway.

"Oh gosh, Josh. What a slosh, Josh!" would be perfect.

I say it too! I know lots of people who use it.

i think we’re all guilty of being a bit parochial and assuming our social bubble if ps the norm.

What’s wrong with using old-fashioned language? It’s interesting and more colourful than the impoverished vocabulary some people have today. I think people who read widely are more likely to use these expressions.

I’ve realised I do say gosh but only as in Oh my Gosh as a deliberate attempt not to blaspheme.

First of all, what’s a visceral ick? Sounds painful….🙄

Apparently I say "Good Lord!" an awful lot since having DC. I know this because my oldest and dearest friend threatened to punch me on the nose if I didn't desist.

I am also reading the Famous Five with DS at the moment. Absolutely no blimeys or cor blimeys so far, but DS has rather enthusiastically adopted "I say!" albeit with heavy sarcasm. That's probably giving his teachers the proper ick as well.

Yes I have thought recently a lot telly people are saying ‘Gosh’ probably instead of saying ‘God’.It sounds a bit false but I understand their reasons. My late DF was a great one for saying ‘Jesus Wept’ as an exclamation. My DH says ‘Good Lord’ when surprised by anything. He says it in a tone of voice which for some reason makes me laugh.

The only people who might say ‘Blimey’ in a Famous Five book would surely be the villains. It’s a working class thing and the Five were much too posh for it. Unless they were saying it for comic effect to mock their family’s cook or something.

It’s possible they might say ‘Crikey’. I have a feeling ‘Crikey’ used to crop up in Biggles books.

"Gosh" always makes me think of the mayor from Buffy.

He's turned into a giant snake demon thing, about to get blown up, and his last words are just "Well Gosh!"

Depends on who’s saying it. It isn’t when I say it.

You can’t say fuck in front of children or anyone really in a professional context. When I was a primary school teacher I didn’t say “ Oh fuck, Josh, you’ve spilled yoghurt down your shirt!”

Doesn mean what I thought it did, annoying

I can't recall ever hearing anyone say "gosh" in RL.

Peccadillo

Yes! Zounds and also ‘gadzooks’. The sort of things that Timothy Claypole used to say. Or Catweazle.

Biccies instead of biscuits. 🙄

It’s really not. I’m 51 and have never been a swearer but sometimes you need an exclamation and gosh works just as well as bugger or bollocks or fuck or whatever else you choose to say but imo is less vulgar and appropriate in all settings. But I assure you it’s neither fake nor an attempt to be something I’m not just something I heard as a child and now say myself.

I have also been known to say golly gosh on occasion but try not to as appreciate it sounds pompous to some people - usually gets a laugh (at me ☺️ )

You have used both ick and vile in your OP, those in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.

My sister says blimey all the time. It drives me nuts. We don’t live in a famous five novel, we’re not English and it’s not 1955

Yes - I totally agree. But why? I don’t understand why it makes me cringe!