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Mundane words you hate the sound of....

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MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 12/04/2023 21:02

Is there a word you hate? When you say it, it just grates on you just irritates you?

For me, its the word "bottle".

I hate what it looks like, I hate saying the word, to me it just sounds like a silly word and irritates me when I have to use it.

Probably makes no sense, but please tell me I'm not alone with an irrational hatred of a mundane word.

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SoTiredOfAllTheSh17 · 13/04/2023 22:49

Lush or Yummy when talking about food
Belly
Bog when talking about a toilet

CountingMareep · 13/04/2023 23:55

I'm not keen on 'tasty' though. Tasty kind of tastes bad in my mouth and makes my ears itch.

Agree with this: ‘tasty’ is a junk word for junk low rent chain restaurant food, a synthetic punch in the mouth.

RustedfromtheRain · 14/04/2023 00:21

Tad. I loathe it.

faffadoodledo · 14/04/2023 06:39

@CountingMareep are you a writer? That is a most excellent description of the word in question

Emmamoo89 · 14/04/2023 07:32

ouchmyteeth · 13/04/2023 19:47

I agree pudding sounds old-fashioned and upper class, I’ve only heard posh people say it.

Also hate gosh and fab

I'm definitely not posh 🤣 I'm up north and most people say it

SandLResources · 14/04/2023 09:15

"My bad". Barely tolerable when spoken by an American. Insufferable when uttered by the English.

CurlewKate · 14/04/2023 09:32

Oh, all the furbaby stuff. Somebody recently asked me how my grandpuppy is!

And when people start social media posts with things like "Heartbroken to tell you that my little girl has passed over.." and I panic, then read on to discover it's a dog. I can't commiserate with them properly for their very real loss because I'm so relieved it's not a child and so angry that they scared me.

Zippe · 14/04/2023 09:36

"Curvy" can't stand the word. You're not, it's fat or overweight.
"Egg" gives me the heave, but I eat them!
"Blessed"

"Dating" sick hearing it, reading it, saying it,

1mabon · 14/04/2023 09:41

"kid" instead of children. Kids are the progeny of goats.

"Different to" it should be "different from"

SwedishEdith · 14/04/2023 09:46

Just thought of another after seeing someone questioning if a TV series was weekly - oh, the hardship. "Bingeing on a box set". I think I hate all of that.

midsomermurderess · 14/04/2023 09:56

Northernsouloldies · 13/04/2023 14:26

If like was taken out of the English language some people would be unable to speak. Just saying like 😁

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They’d just find another filler. Um still seems quite popular.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/04/2023 10:05

‘Pissed’ when said/written by Brits who mean pissed off.
‘Pissed’ in the U.K. means ‘drunk’.

Ditto ‘math’.

Oh, and it’s ubiquitous now, but I hate REEsearch instead of reSEARCH.

Even the Cancer Research TV ad makes me want to chuck a brick at the telly.

LunaNorth · 14/04/2023 10:12

‘Math’ and ‘sports’.

Not different, just wrong.

Cattenberg · 14/04/2023 10:42

I hate it when British people say “math”. It sounds so fake - like David Brent trying to impress.

There’s no excuse for a British adult to mix up “pissed” and “pissed off” either.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 14/04/2023 10:46

’Sport’. I’m not sporty but that’s not why I hate it - I just do, always have.

IfsAndAnds · 14/04/2023 13:05

I also hate the words ‘guest’ and ‘viewing’, as in ‘I am viewing some houses’. I don’t know why I hate either word.

halfsiesonapotnoodle · 14/04/2023 14:32

Cattenberg · 14/04/2023 10:42

I hate it when British people say “math”. It sounds so fake - like David Brent trying to impress.

There’s no excuse for a British adult to mix up “pissed” and “pissed off” either.

Yes, yes, yes. Well said.

SinnerBoy · 15/04/2023 07:16

SandLResources · Yesterday 09:15

"My bad". Insufferable when uttered by the English.

That's one I hate, too; should they be vaporised on the spot with lasers, do you think?

SinnerBoy · 15/04/2023 07:18

1mabon · Yesterday 09:41

"kid" instead of children.

Robert Graves said the same, in "Goodbye to All That," in the 1920s, but he conceded that it was too late, as it was ubiquitous by that time.

SinnerBoy · 15/04/2023 07:19

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · Yesterday 10:05

..., but I hate REEsearch instead of reSEARCH.

And PROE-testers and PROE-testing.

Don't get me started on "Let's protest him." Or "I'm not going to debate him" etc.

Housewife2010 · 15/04/2023 07:25

Emmamoo89 · 14/04/2023 07:32

I'm definitely not posh 🤣 I'm up north and most people say it

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"Pudding" is on the accepted Nancy Mitford list. "Dessert" and "afters" are definitely "Non U".

faffadoodledo · 15/04/2023 07:30

I think 'sweet' would join the list @Housewife2010
My granny used to call pudding 'afters'. Shows how our family has risen in the world, since I'm a pudding girl

SinnerBoy · 15/04/2023 07:44

I now have I'm a pudding girl as an earworm, to the tune of Barbie Girl.

Thank you very little!

1mabon · 15/04/2023 10:48

I always say pudding and lavatory and often criticized.

Helendegenerate · 15/04/2023 11:36

Lavvy is the worst word to describe the toilet and my old Auntie Gladys said it a lot. I do still here it from time to time. Going to the bathroom is er polite but a bit naff.