There is nothing wrong with the term 'hubby'.

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There just isn't.
This MN trend of sneering at posters for using a common term that has been deemed unfashionable...but only on mumsnet...is boring, childish and bloody rude.
If you had a go at someone for using it in rl you'd look like a dick.

AIBU?

Snobs the lot of ye!

Although I fear there are people here who would take that as a compliment.

YANBU hubby doesn't bother me in the slightest. I cringe when I see it on MN, but only because I'm waiting for the inevitable snippy posts that will follow and feel sorry for the poor, unsuspecting poster.

Words have always been shortened, embellished, even lengthened in common use. It's a good thing for a language.

I agree. I love the evolution of language in all it's guises. It's so creative.

It's not creative, and its devolution, not evolution. It's one reason we're all getting stupider. As our language shrinks and contracts we are diminishing in intelligence.

Well, some of you are, anyway.

My hubby just made me a lubbly cuppa.

You enjoy insulting people don't you User?

user1474627704 - be careful not to make mistakes in posts criticising the intelligence of others.

I totally agree with the op. I use the term hubby in real life as an affectionate term. I don't care if it's seen as out of fashion.. When I first joined mn I used it as didn't realise it was a faux pas and wasn't up to speed with all the acronyms.
It's really uneccesaru to have a go over it when taking about something else. Just smacks of snobbery and sneeriness.

This has made me laugh, YANBU. I used it a few months back in my "new poster to mumsnet innocence" and was immediately pulled up on it/ mocked. Immediately took me back to school days when you were made fun of for doing or saying something that wasn't "cool". Put me right off mumsnet (as a newbie) and I just thought how childish! I'm an adult now and don't/ shouldn't have to experience mocking/ bullying/ intimidation from nasty girls anymore. There are several terms that make my skin crawl but I wouldn't criticise anyone for using them. There are a lot of grown up bullies on here!

So cuppa is not allowed now either? Bloody hell I may as well call it a day!

I have never used it & wouldn't.

Yabu the word hubby really grates on me.

Someone used the word hubster on my Facebook the other day. Now that is bad.

Language evolves.

But communities are also banded by their shibboleths.

Hubby just happens to be one that, whilst being perfectly fine elsewhere, is simply wrong in terms of the community here.

Now of course people might not want MN to maintain its distinctive (but essentially harmless) quirks. But it's fine for those who like MN just as it is to seek to maintain it.

Has thread moved on?

If not YABU. Hubby is awful. Eugh.

Hmm. Not a huge fan of hubby/hubster but if people want to use it, fine by me. "The wife" just makes the woman sound like a possession to me.
Arf at "hubbadubbadingdong"

Indeed Dixie.

You know people like user(all the numbers) who say such smug things always make me think of my friend.

She is one one of those scarily smart people in the world, you know the ones who if they were in a movie would be flew in by the President in a global emergency kind of thing.

She says hun when she's chatting to her mate through e-mail/text. She also sends kisses and hugs.

Now if someone were to try and belittle her intelligence over this she would have the ability to verbally annihilate them but she wouldn't because she's smart and nice.

So I say be careful who you try and make a fool out of online as you make end up looking like not only a dick but an incredibly stupid one.

"Now of course people might not want MN to maintain its distinctive (but essentially harmless) quirks. But it's fine for those who like MN just as it is to seek to maintain it."

By appearing on someone's heartfelt, advice-seeking thread purely to bitch about them using the term 'hubby'?
They can jog on in that case.

I really don't see a problem with it? Am I missing something here?!

Makes me think of Dear Deidre problem page in The Sun. "My hubby wants a threesome..." Naff

I agree OP. I don't think anyone would be rude enough in rl to sneer.

I wouldn't use it myself though; I tend to refer to DH by his name.

so much angst from snobs with their heads stuck up their own arses! No one has the right to dictate what other people call their partner, and if you get irate at the word "hubby" then you need to get a grip. I find dh, ds, dd etc odd but i couldn't get my knickers in a twist about it!

Me and "him indoors" call each other all sorts of silly names, i couldn't give two hoots what anyone else thinks about that.

It's a belonging thing, isn't it? People strutting about showing they know the unspoken community rules, in jokes, references, and so on, and sneering at people who don't.

Kind of like the anime forum I was on when I was 14 where the class distinctions between the 'newbies' and the 'oldbies' was pretty much Dickensian.