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!

Crisp white shirt.

Urgh, that made my skin crawl just typing that!

Differently abled. What's wrong with disabled?

Cheeky
twee
maths
adulting
wobble
mate

I am not disabled so perhaps shouldn't be commenting, but I agree - people are DISabled by the environment and lack of provision, they are not differently abled because they are often not abled by the environment and lack of provision at all!

I don't like impact as a verb, although someone posted a link here a few weeks ago saying it actually started off as a verb :)

Calling people guys, for example "are you guys ready to order" or "take a seat guys and someone will be right over."

I am. There's very good reasons for using alternative terminology - it's not the environment at fault, it's other people not thinking my ability to get through a solid steel gate whilst wrangling key fob, bag, crutches and pain in my lower back is different to their ability to wrench the thing open within 10 seconds before it locks again because The Disabled Don't Have Jobs or All Use Wheelchairs that's the problem. I've got plenty of other abilities, gate wrangling is just one I don't have.

'Hive mind'

The current use of broken. As in
The NHS is broken
Education is broken
Social care is broken

Goodness, I dislike tha usage intensely!

Pronouncing lever as "levver." A posh BBC news reader said, this morning, "levverage." The great sweaty scrotum.

Why is everyone calling films movies now, FFS? It's a FILM. You're going to the cinema to see a film, not to the sodding movies.

Living his/her best life especially when it's used about pets. Furbaby. Birthday greetings from pets. I'm really not convinced that your dog will ever be aware enough to wish me a happy birthday so why write it in a card?

“Of an evening”

Pack lunch. It's packed lunch.

Agree, she is the most annoying person. I also hate it when she says beautiful peeps instead of people and how does she know if we're beautiful or not. She's sat in a studio speaking to us through a microphone for goodness sake.

A lot of the annoying phrases listed on this thread are repeated by journalists and copywriters. If these jobs are so competitive why don't people with a good use of grammar get offered these jobs instead? In particular the BBC pay enormous salaries to journalists and presenters who spout all this nonsense. It seems odd someone goes to university to study English only to disregard everything they've learned.

Another one which I saw on another thread on MN. "literally"

A smear test "literally" saved my life. Well it didn't. The treatment for your abnormal cells MAY have "literally" saved your life but the smear test didn't, it just flagged that treatment might be needed.

I think they actually try to push their use - they become fashionable so they keep using them and then people jump on the bandwagon. For example, "gifting" or "curating".

Hated a ‘socially distanced’ this and that.
unctous
furbaby

‘Pretty please’ makes me want to throw up.
Ditto ‘panties’

I’ve very recently seen ‘curate’ on a big sign over a John Lewis checkout.
’Why we curate’ or some such.
I’d have hoped that JL would know better, but then I thought the same about
‘gifting’ signs all over the shop last Christmas (2021).

'My bad.'

Urgh. What does that even mean?

Play date. It seems to be everywhere lately. I'm sure we used to just go round a friend's house. It was never referred to as a play date.

"hit me with your suggestions"

Why not just let me know, or let me have, or do you have suggestions for.

Why would you want to be hit?

Similarly "crush" a training session or "these bad boys" when referring to new trainers. Why are they bad? Why are they boys?

"Smash it out of the park". Where does that come from?

“Don’t at (@) me”

A favourite of that gobshite James O’Brien

Yes, or you might have "gone round for tea".