To have such hatred for certain words? Which words make you shudder?

[littlemisssunny]

Am I unreasonable to hate the words

Congealed

Treacherous (think that's the right spelling)! I know the meaning of this word isn't nice so can kind of see why I don't like it, but I cringe when I hear it!

Which words do you hate?

I work in the M&S food hall and cafe and we are not allowed to call them serviettes we must call them napkins!

Saddle bags... What a charmer! He must be fighting them off with a shitty stick.
Jesus why are the most awful ones related to women's bits?

Interesting littlemisssunny. What happens if a customer asks where the serviettes are? Do you use the correct word and risk offending them or have to dumbly point?

We have them behind the till and give them out with the receipt so we rarely get asked, but if someone does ask I hand them some napkins and just say 'is that enough?' thus avoiding the word serviette which should be banned having to say it out loud!!

I hated those articles about mavens too einsty.

There was a special job that mavens did for market research companies. It could have been trendspotting but that sounds far too ordinary.

Never mind. There are far fewer of those non-jobs now that people don't have the money to spare for cashmere lurex socks and other must-haves.

I know coansha. It's not as if men's bits don't sag with age.

One of my favourite bits of celeb trivia is that Nick Nolte had a scrotal lift to restore his honeymoon freshness.

Limited that is hilarious. Good for him too, they are not pretty.

snuck instead of sneaked - bloody Americanism

Hahahaha Nick Nolte and his scrotal lift!

Scrotum is an ugly word as well isn't it. There is a village in Dorset called Shrewton which I always think of as Scrotum.

'Snuck' is awful as it 'gotten' and 'dove'.

hun
hon
huni (especially with ü)
hunny (exception made for Winnie the Pooh books)
hunz (wtf??)

There is one word that our sales manager uses all the time I cant even say it as I think its a nasty word. It ends in a T ! Nasty

C*

There are words that since school days I have to force myself through embarassment to say such as

sanitary towel
vaginal discharge
breasts

There are words and phrases that make me cring as they are so wanky, such as

panties
supper
signs that say "to the lingerie dept" - just say underwear!
"going forward" often said in the workplace

Then there are the irritating words and phrases

i.e. posts and texts with overuse of LOL when nothing is funny

young, badly educated telephone sales people who seem to wrongly use "myself". e.g. "If you could get in touch with myself or my colleague.."

Also some children's names grate on my nerves. An american colleague has a child called Leyland pronounced Leeland aarggh! And another has a daughter called Kaylin, which makes me think of Kaolin and Morphine.

Finally the new catchphrases which sound so alien initially but somehow get sucked into our language, such as:-

Reem
Like

Cougar. I HATE it. Bork.

And one that has only become annoying since I've known DH, because he says it all the time - veggies. I don't mind veg although would prefer vegetables, but he says veggies every single time.

I also hate it when it's used to describe vegetarianism- 'Oh I'm veggie'. No. You are a vegetarian.

Chillax

fanny

slash hate it and its used so much now when talking about a URL
grrrrr

'in bits
kids
'busy mum' in news articles - patronising
dessert
end of
uni

Tummy
Pouch
and worst of all, pamphlet.

Have to confess I was brought up to say 'I beg your pardon' when I didn't hear someone. Saying 'what?' would have been a hanging offence.

I hate reflexive pronouns, too - the myself, yourself etc Makes me think of not very well educated municipal official trying to be self-important ca 1965 and intimidate members of the rate-paying public.

Serviettes/napkins, should never be paper - linen damask, preferably double damask, and starched. They are to be folded after meals, except for visitors who can crumple them. According to not so 'd'm

Preggers/preggo

fiddling
chav
likkle
hubby
belly
knuckle
nom nom (makes me cringe)
nosh
girly

tb I agree. It is so municipal talking about yourself, myself etc.
I too would have been told of for 'what'
Like so many others my cringe worthy words are
moist
gusset
lounge
settee
serviette
dinner (when you mean lunch)
tea (when you mean dinner, tea= tea and cake)

Actually tea may mean tea & cake, but high tea means yer dinner.

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