AIBU to ask what words you'd ban?

[1066vegan]

JRM's style guide made me think about this. Top of my list would be "hun", followed closely by "Crimbo" and "hubby".

What words would you love never to have to read or hear again?

Laying annoys me.
'I was laying down'. What's wrong with 'I was lying down' ?

Also uber, posh and pop

• Laying annoys me. 'I was laying down'. What's wrong with 'I was lying down' ?*

unless it's eggs or tables, 'lay' is the wrong verb.

I hate the word family when it’s used in front of an activity.

We’re going on a Family Bike Ride!

We’re off on a Family Holiday!

We’re having a Family Movie Night!

Ugh.

'Naice'.

I have to agree that 'front bottom' is actually disgustingly offensive, not to mention an anatomical impossibility ...

Spud, spud, spud, spud, spud, spud, spud, spud, SPUD, piping hot, yum!

OH GOD @nakedscientist i have special skills and I will track you down.
"sorry"? my arse!

Awesome
The 'c' word
Moist

Hun

turnt
smol
kek
bahaha as in haha beginning with "ba" for some reason

Bore off (never heard this before mumsnet).

‘Exquisite’ and ‘intricate’ - I come across these in books sometimes. They mean and explain nothing to me.

‘Exquisite’ and ‘intricate’ - I come across these in books sometimes. They mean and explain nothing to me.

That's a bit harsh... but there are books which overuse that type of word. The sort of book in which 'palimpsest' is liable to crop up.

Gotten. I hate it!

cunt

Stunning. Especially if pronounced, ‘stunnin’. It’s used so often I feel it has lost meaning and I don’t like the way it feels in my mouth.

Prinny
Hubby (don't even get me started on Husbeast)
Boobing

Don't Americans have their own websites for Elison, I think, to vent her considerable spleen, I love the way the intrude on UK sites. The word 'gotten' is an old word from English, the Americans haven't moved far in their useage, we just keep it in forgotten, begotten, the same applies to many of the so called American words people dislike.

Poorly - have hated that word since primary school
Hun - if it's meant to be short for honey it should be hon anyway, but I'd still hate it.

Gotten isn’t an Americanism
I’m Irish and have used gotten and can I get long before I watched American tv or visited the US.
I was informed on a thread that the word twee is in the English dictionary and how could I not have heard the word 🙄 I’ve never heard anyone outside of MN use the word twee.

Hate the word poorly
Also whilst
And aitch (it’s haitch)

What's wrong with aitch? Don't know about how it's pronounced with an Irish accent, but in standard English it's pronounced as it's spellt (not as haitch) and has been for centuries.

Agree aitch is fine!

And aitch (it’s haitch)

No it's not. You probably won't find 'haitch' in a proper dictionary, but online ones have if as 'a common misspelling of aitch'. It's an overcorrection, like the caricatured lower class speech in which aitches are all dropped except for ones which shouldn't be there, e.g. Eliza Dolittle's first attempt "In 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire, 'urricanes 'ardly Hever 'appen".

'aitch (it’s haitch)'

While you're not wrong to pronounce it 'haitch', as it's regional dialect, it's definitely incorrect as per the dictionary (My DH pronounces it 'haitch' as well and he grew up 20 miles away from where I did). You're totally not BU to want to ban it, though, if you don't like it, just like anyone else on this thread

Or, what Norber said

Mind you, 'aitch' as the name for 'H' in English is somewhat odd; I suspect (though CBA at the moment to check the etymology) that it arose from the 'old English commoner, French nobility' syndrome that leads to the pretentious "an 'otel' type of thing.

I'd rather discuss words than ban them, it seems!

Jobby. A horrible Scottish word for poo.