To hate the word 'spendy'

[mammmamia]

Where has it come from? I keep seeing it on the S&B boards. No one says this in real life. It's only on MN.
Spendy, spendier. Just no! The word is expensive. Or pricey.

[OvariesForgotHerPassword]

The ILs call spending money for holidays etc "spendies".

DH did it once. I physically growled at him. He hasn't done it since.

[Chavelita]

'Himself' or 'herself' to refer to someone is perfectly normal Hiberno-English, and has been for generations -- nothing to do with the illiterate overcorrection 'That would be myself, Lord Sugar' type usage in this country. 'Spendy' on the other hand, isn't.

[Handbag101]

One of the girls where I work constantly uses it.

[Ulysses]

I hear it in an Irish brogue after Marian Keyes as well. I follow her on the twitter, you see.

[Grilledaubergines]

Yes I follow her on Twitter too Ulysses.

'Tanken yew' may be the reason I unfollow.

[StrawberrySquash]

It grates in the way that a Big Brother contestant going 'I'm mad, am am, Lol!' does.