To hate the word ‘pop’?

[dinosaurglitterrepublic]

I have no problem with a balloon going pop or pop music. It is the use of pop in place of another word that irritates me. So to pop something in the post, pop yourself down, pop along to a place etc.

I am fully prepared for many people to wonder why I care (it’s just one of those things I can’t explain) and that IABU especially as I see it regularly used on here. Perhaps I am hoping to find a like minded spirit!

100% agree, I loathe the word used like that! It's rife on social media and blogs.

I had a very silly crush on someone I worked with until he helpfully killed it by telling me he was "just popping to the loo."

Yes, particularly hate this at the doctor's, and it seems the more serious the potential condition the more breezy they try to be. I'm due a bowelscope screening soon and anyone telling me to "pop" anywhere may regret their choice of wording.

let me pop the kettle on x

"... just pop you on the bedpan, pop your pjs on, pop you on the chair , then I’ll pop off and do your physio follow up. Alriiiiiight?"
Yes, that's why I hate it!

The husband of a severely disabled woman I know bitterly recalled a HCP telling him to "just pop in" to the hospital with his wife after a series of unfruitful visits to various hospitals and centres with one of her various health problems, and I could see how frustrating it must have been to be told to "just pop" anywhere, as if it was no effort at all for them.

On another occasion, my boyfriend watched one of those "learn to speak English" tv programmes presented by south-east UK speakers, advising him to substitute "pop" for "put", "go" etc., because it's more native. He stopped doing that after an impassioned lecture from me on the foolishness and egocentricity of native speakers who think if they say something it must be good english, and that foreigners should strive to speak exactly as they do.

Pretty sure it's all Delia Smith's fault, she was forever "pop it in a ramekin" < shudder >

'fancy' referring to food is the one that gets me.

What do you fancy?

AAAARGH

'I fancy some picky bits'

I must admit to popping to different places, pop to the loo, pop upstairs. But I really can't stand pop the way it's used in fashion and makeup , as in 'a pop of colour'.

My DD does some freelance tv wardrobe work from time to time, I think she's picked it up from there

I love her dearly so won't tell her, but every time she talks about a 'pop of colour' in relation to shoes, or nail varnish, or lipstick, I cringe a little inside.

I don’t mind it in that context but I cannot STAND ‘a POP of colour’ .... 😡 awful phrase

I don't like the word pop being used for coke, lemonade cherryade etc. Why can't you just use the word of the drink?

Darn it @JulietTango you beat me to it. Was about to post the same poem. Was reading it to DS2 this afternoon, he loves it!

I agree, it is quite awful. Especially a pop of colour or fizzy pop. Bleurgh.

Argh!!!

I use pop when referring to fizzy drinks

Are you a character in the Beano?

Ha ha i thought it was just me. I agree it’s annoying and drives me mad.

What ? Bumping a 2 year old thread with that as a comment 😬

My paternal grandad was Pop. We actually thought that was his name when we were small.