Anyone want to add to my ever increasing list of words/terms that are just really bloody annoying?

[TitaniasAss]

There are many but this year I've been able to add even more:

Weaponise
Twixmas
You do you

Feel free to add yours!

“Just a thought”
”playing devils’ advocate”
”end of”

New Year’s, especially if also missing the apostrophe. It’s New Year’s Eve

’Statement’ as in piece of furniture, jewellery, etc. Usually just means striking or very expensive, or both. But the word sounds so show-off-y.

Curate

We're pregnant
No
The woman carrying the baby is pregnant
Not both of you

And "little humans" people describing their children that grates on me!!!!

When posters refer to a 'chap' they've been speaking to/dating, etc.

"out" without "of" is standard US English, whereas "out of" is standard British English.
It could be seen as redundant (like the "of" often found with "off" as the first particle is a preposition of movement and encompasses the "of" with it.
The OED notes that, as with "off of" the second particle with "out" will probably become redundant and non-standard eventually,

The prescriptivist's sloppy is the descriptivist's "ooh, that's an interesting linguistic observation"

Playdate
date night
stakeholder
visceral
girls’ night out.

For some reason that's completely irrational I hate the term bottomless brunch 🤣

I asked DS the other day to come downstairs for brunch and he looked me dead in the eye and said 'Don't ever say that ridiculous word again'. 😂

This was discussed earlier in the thread.

Pissed, when they mean pissed off.
Pissed in the UK means drunk.

Fanjo - only something I've come across on Mumsnet. No one says that in real life surely?

I’ve not heard ‘fanjo’ even on MN for ages.

I don't like the "space" thing either. But it's not new, people were saying it 20 years ago. I have withstood it that long...

I also don't like the way people say they are talking "to" something when they mean about. You talk to a person, you talk about a topic. Where on earth did that come from?

Literally

And because they are overused
Super
Big
Little

Didn’t used to.
Irregardless.

Overused is in itself annoying. Especially im the context of baby names.

Ditto to REEsearch. Drives me mad - even when it’s in an ad asking for donations to Cancer REEsearch.

🤣🤣🤣

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · Today 18:38

Ditto to REEsearch.

And DISSpute, DICKtate, EEbola and the like. Protesters, with great stress on the pro.

"I won't debate you," instead of won't have a debate with you.

And some newspapers with horribly mangled constructions like, "He Tuesday said," and "He unlikely will."

Off of

"It's one a them, innit?" said by a physio re. my triply-broken leg.

"Tempritures will scchtruggle ta reeech foive tomorra" said my 90% of BBC wevva presentas.

"Am I missing something?" constantly asked on MN. YES, you are probably missing the point.

'Off of' that used to really piss me off until I found it in Samuel Pepys' diary; it goes back at least to the 15th century, I found.

Needs done.

Needs gone.

No, it needs TO BE done or needs TO GO.

And for anyone jumping in to say ‘regional, stfu’, it may have started out as regional but it’s become widespread and it’s really fucking irritating.

Use of the word “text” as a verb that NEVER changes. So far, I’ve only seen this on MN, but multiple instances of “he text me”, “I text her”, etc., when the poster clearly means “texted”. Why? I’d have thought that “text” as a verb was far too recent to have become irregular already. Bugs the life out of me.