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!

Sanctimonious shit, I agree. Although marginally better than the rage-inducing '...and breath'.

I dislike everyone being 'obsessed with...' Just say you're fond of. An obsession is actually serious. Your five year old is not obsessed with horses, he is simply very fond of them.

I know it's already been mentioned but whenever I hear 'thank you for reaching out' I want to shout Fuck Right Off!

X sleeps until Christmas

No, days or nights will do fine.

Noone instead of no one.
Draws instead of drawers.

Yes to the mental health speak.
’my anxiety’ meaning a natural feeling of slight nervousness.
‘resilience’ used to mean either putting up with stuff when you should be making a fuss or just getting on with life.
’Passed’ meaning died - understandable that people can’t face saying died but passed is unclear and potentially confusing. Passed what? Their driving test?
’Lived experience’, ‘My truth’ - I take both of these to mean that I shouldn’t believe what someone is saying.

I recently heard someone say it instead of at, ‘It the moment’. On radio 4. Hope that doesn’t become popular!

'sure am' as rather than 'yes'.
'sure will' rather than 'yes I will do'

Anxious being used instead of guilty.

Eg: ‘xxx is feeling really anxious about not having done their homework, please could they have an extension’. Instead of ‘xxx didn’t get round to doing their homework and now they feel guilty’

”I’m feeling really anxious about borrowing x’s favourite cup without asking and breaking it”, no, you feel guilty and you should!

Using nouns as adjectives ie. “She’s so chill” instead of chilled, or “It was really spook” instead of spooky.

⬆️I mean use verbs as adjectives, of course!

'It's all good' or 'I'm good'
'I'll get' instead of 'I would like'
'Are you done?' instead of 'Have you finished?'
Or in a restaurant: 'Are you still working on that?' instead of 'May I take your plate?'
Another is 'How are those first few bites tasting?'😡 Fuck off and leave me to eat in peace!

"Cost of living"
Infuriates me! We all know the obvious answer if you want to save on the cost of LIVING. Would be more accurate to call it cost of lockdown/ cost of government policies... or maybe just inflation.

Showcasing - "so and so showcased her fabulous figure"
furbabies
hubby/hubster
gifting/gifted - just say giving/free/gave
Pop - popped it into the oven/popped to the shop
Give your head a wobble
Gender-fluid/transwoman/transman/gender-neutral. There are males and females.
Hollibobs

"Super" when "very" would do.
"Tips and tricks"
"Sweet treats"

I work in wills and probate where the use of "to gift" as a verb is perfectly legitimate.

The comms or whatever 'piece' is absolutely hateful.

Posting ‘cherchez la femme’ on relationship threads. It doesn’t make you look worldly and clever and you look even more thick when you post using the masculine le instead of la.

‘Looked after children’. I know its terribly difficult to find an appropriate phrase but it does grate on me - DS was looked after all his childhood and youth - by us, his parents

@ShowOfHands · Yesterday 20:54
Affectations like slinging and bunging and throwing. People are always chucking ingredients together or throwing on a nice tee and smart jeans. Or they pop on a nude lip or pop to the shops or pop things on the counter. The same people plate up or eat picky bits or sling jacket pots or spag bol in the oven. Their food is always beautifully fresh or gorgeous in its simplicity. Their slightly cruder counterparts meanwhile, are smashing things in their face or gob and choking down medicine or nibbling on something naughty.
It's the perfect storm of affected and visceral and makes the offenders sound like their dream is to write inconsequential shite in magazines for laydees.

Made me instantly think 'Bloody Jamie Oliver !

All the initialisms that you see on MN [sic!] like DC, DH, DD1, DSS, what I mentally read as 'yaboo' and 'yanboo', etc. Is it really that much effort to type 'my son' and not 'DS'? Is it a way of indicating being 'in' the 'in group'? There is one that I have had to look up (I won't say what it is, it's a bit incendiary). I got really fed up with initialisms in the Civil Service.

For me it's 'poorly'. I never understand why news reports describe victims of accidents etc as 'poorly' or 'very poorly
' - to me 'poorly' is a baby word and really jars in the context of a news report.

I imagine you misheard "it the moment" as it has no sense or logic. Maybe a strong regional accent would pronounce "at" more like "it"

Hiberno-English among others prefers to use "passed" instead of "passed away" (which has been in existence since the 1400s apparently and is one of the oldest known phrasal verbs in common usage) Whilst it may be potentially confusing, it'd be unlikely you'd not know from the context of the conversation if someone was talking about an exam or the afterlife.

www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/usage-of-pass-or-pass-away-when-someone-has-died-

Hubby
Veggies

Just fuck off and say the proper word!!!!

The acronyms and abbreviations are just a convention from ye olden days when you had to pay per character to send a text message. They're now starting to be considered a bit old-fashioned by the digital generations (likewise emoticons- teenagers would rather be seen with a Nokia brick than send an emoji- so they tell me)

Also have to very much agree with a previous poster re. saying someone is “poorly” rather than ill or unwell. It just makes my toes curl. To me it’s a very twee way of saying it!

With you on both of these. As soon as anyone says "veggies" I back away. Fast. It's usually said in a very superior way too. "oh you tuck into your KFC, we'll just have 18 different veggies and a lentil sandwich"