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?

Nibbles
cuppa
hubby
Mrs/Miss (just Ms or other gender non-specific honorific)
veggies

Fags

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Makes me shudder

'Poorly. It sounds so feeble.'

I don't mind 'poorly' (and after all one does feel feeble when one's poorly), but I have an irrational dislike for the phrase 'She's a bit fluey'. People are not fluey; they have the flu, and if they truly do, there's usually no 'a bit' about it.

'Incentivize'

Oh YES - can't stand that.

'Gotten'

I have no idea why I hate it so much though.

Off topic: perhaps people could stop slagging off Americans and America. It's bizarre. I scoot past threads in which some half-wit is saying they'd never to to the US because everyone has guns and is a fundamental Christian cult-member who marries 14-year-olds and you can only eat burgers in the whole of the country. Plus slagging off Disneyworld when they haven't been there .

"Moving forward, can we stop using the phrase moving forward, I may combust if I hear it again"

Lol, me too. And if I hear "reach/reaching out" much more, I'll reach out punch the twat that says it.

Agree that 'confraggle' is a fab word.

Irma I heartily concur!

"Off topic: perhaps people could stop slagging off Americans and America. It's bizarre. I scoot past threads in which some half-wit is saying they'd never to to the US because everyone has guns and is a fundamental Christian cult-member who marries 14-year-olds and you can only eat burgers in the whole of the country. Plus slagging off Disneyworld when they haven't been there"

Just wait till Hallowe'en/Christmas!

Fanny. I feel like it's just such a weird word.

invite (as a noun instead of a verb)
and another one for holibobs

Literally has been updated in all the best dictionaries, I think, to indicate that it is a form of hyperbole and therefore allowed for non-literal events

Exciting, mainly when used by Marketing droids. No, W H Smiths, your new stationery range is not 'exciting'.

Lifestyle in any context. I'm buying a thing, not a lifestyle. Andy Hamilton's Satan put it very well when he said that a lifestyle is something rich people have instead of a life.

"Bliss.

I hate it (irrationally) when people make a statement describing something mundane and mildly enjoyable, end the sentence with a full stop, and then write "bliss" as a full sentence. "

Actually I hate this too. And the word "bliss" is just kind of... yuk for some reason.

I cannot tolerate the word "boob" either as a noun or a verb.

I'd ban hubby, cunt & hun

Also, we don't criticise words introduced by our Norman overlords. Now that was an actual invasion !

The English language is a wonderful mix of influences.

I don't know when I last read a post on here about wedding invitations- it's always about the "invites" now. I'm not keen, but then I still think it should be railway stations not train stations.

I detest management speak! I have managers at the moment who use it so much that they are not actually saying anything any more...

Nouns used as verbs really wind me up too! You weren’t ‘gifted’ it, you were given it!

Another one I can’t stand is ‘darling’ used as an adjective - ‘oh jemima, that dress is darling’. ARRGGGHHH! I don’t hear it often thank god but when it does come up it sets my teeth on edge!

@SlocombePooter "just call it cowmeat! It's a perfectly good word!" 😄

Never even heard of "confraggle". What does it mean? Hate:
Signage
Learnings
Cum
Myself/youself
Making memories
This one, as in "Cheeky day out with this one making memories"
So at the beginning of an answer
Infomercial
Moist
Insert

Me too Womble, I hate Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, especially when it's just bandied about willy-nilly.

I also HATE people who say willy-nilly !!!

Big
Little
Amazing

as they are overused

"Overcome"

I work in nurseries and the way that word is used by managers is fucking infuriating. If there is a shit issue in the nursery that is causing staff problems, rather than getting rid of the issue the managers dump the issue back on you and tell you to "overcome" it. Even worse, they phrase it like it's going to be an exciting challenge to be enjoyed.
eg.
You: "Children's toilets broken boss."
Manager: "I have every faith in you that you can overcome it." [goes back to reading magazine and drinking tea]
You spend the next week while waiting for a plumber ferrying children to the Toddler Room toilets, and cleaning up 'accidents' caused by children who would rather soil themselves.

Anything ending in nge.

Lunge, minge, gunge, clunge. Makes me shiver.

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