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.

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

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

'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.

One of the girls where I work constantly uses it.

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

Yes I follow her on Twitter too Ulysses.

'Tanken yew' may be the reason I unfollow.

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