Irrational hatred of certain words

[LadyRussell]

I cannot stand the expression “hubby” I have no reason for this at all it just makes me cringe.

WHY?! “My husband, my partner, my other half” all fine “hubby” NOooooooo! I actually secretly judge people who use it

Lady I work with also says Pacific instead of Specific.....

Spends. I need say no more.

Prepping
Nucular instead of nuclear
Sourced. Especially: Carefully sourced
Bub
Comfort station / pit stop

"good-good" - in a spoken conversation. It's actually plagueishly absorbed itself into a 'certain' strata who don't even realize they are saying it.

I've actually tested this, and found that people were surprised that they said "good-good". after I said to them see who you know who says it.

"Good-good". Fuck off. You mean you can't be bothered to think about and respond to what I just said.

‘Impromptu’

Nope.

• Yummy Mummy
• The use of "legend" to describe someone who has downed a pint (or performed something equally as unimpressive)
• Incorrect use of "I" and "me", for example; "Sophie and me went to the shop" or "Sophie and I just posing for a selfie!"
• Selfie
• Woop woop
• Eek
• I was sat (would you say "I was ran"? No. No you wouldn't. SO DON'T SAY "SAT" INSTEAD OF "SITTING", THEN!)
• "The company are..." (BBC News get this one wrong all the bloody time. Company is singular, therefore it's "The company is..."
• Moma Bear
• Hunny
• Apostrophes in acronyms such as DVD's
• Any management dictionary bullshit
• The use of "less than" when it should be "fewer than" (Stannis Baratheon, you feel my pain on this one!)

I really could go on. I find myself struggling to listen in meetings because I'm too busy correcting my colleagues as they speak - I am, after all, perfect.

Nice thread, OP.

There's nothing wrong with some of these words eg 'brought', 'myself' and 'yourself'. It's the misuse of them that is a problem, not the words themselves.

And what on earth is wrong with 'pregnant' and 'decade'?

Safe Haven ...

'Blessed' - gives me the rage

Hun just gives me the absolute rage.

We are pregnant
Playdate
Date night
Yummy mummy
Mummy milk
Princess

Hubby
Lil man
Yummy/scrummy
Nom
Delish
And for some reason I don't like the word Pregnant, which is awkward, because I am!

I hate “daddy and daughter date” etc it’s grim grim grim

I too loath 'hun' but worse than that was what I got called at the end of a phone call last week by somebody at work. Not in my department, and not a friend. Somebody I know through work and not very well. She called me 'bunny'. BUNNY!!!!!!! Why! Just why! Totally cringe-making. And if you are reading this and recognize yourself it's not that I don't like you, you seem like a perfectly nice intelligent woman. But PLEASE not 'bunny' to somebody you hardly know ( and who if you did know you certainly wouldn't choose to call bunny - I am definitely not a 'bunny' kind of person)

“Hubby” “choccies” “biccies”

Fart and stinky.

These two words pain me and even put me off people a little. Urghh

Gubernatorial. Luckily I don’t often need to use it.
Picky bits for lunch.

Famalam
Totes
Amazeballs
Nom nom
Holibobs
Momtrepreneur
Hun

None of these are ACTUAL WORDS YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!!

Also cannot stand of when used in place of have, and super when used as a fucking adverb.

Divine and sublime, especially when used after “simply” to describe food.

Pumping 🤢
My flat mate from student days was describing a one night stand she’d just had and said, he was like a robot and just kept pumping away. It made me feel sick then and still does

Pussy/pussycat
Moist
Bikini clad

Overuse of the word "my" when describing something. Very irrational I know, but either in an area where everyone had this weird quirk.

"I had my sandwich and my crisps, having my cup of tea in my garden on my chair." Thank god you clarified everything was yours: otherwise I'd have thought you were sitting in the neighbours garden eating their lunch!

Slurp is another one I hate. Nothing described by that word sounds in the least bit tasty/sexy (have seen it used in both contexts, horrifyingly)

“Jetting off” on holiday
“Rocking” a lacy dress/pencil skirt/any random piece of clothing
“Slacks” for trousers makes me shudder
Incorrect use of “myself” etc - makes the person sound pompous as well as stupid
“Lippy” for lipstick
“Winceyette” is just horrible
“Panties”
“Thong” - such an ugly word

"females".

Female is NOT A NOUN. A female dog. A female cat. The correct term is women.

And the total misuse of "myself"