Words that I see on MN that make my teeth itch....

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For some reason, since being on MN I have developed an irrational hatred towards certain words that are overused on here....namely, "tat" and "snacks" and I don't know why, because they are words I've used in the past! Now, ugh.

And also, even though I've used it in the title, I hate the phrase "makes my teeth itch" it's almost as bad as "boils my piss".

Does anyone else have words that MN have put them off using? Or am I just a grumpy old unreasonable bag?

"He text me"

It's texted!

"Boobing" or "on the boob"

Also, not sure if it’s just a university thing but I only ever see it referenced there, shortening Southampton to Soton.

Is Northampton referred to as Noton?

San pro really annoys me for some reason

Oh and popping!!! Can I pop round, just popping to the shop grrrrrr

I hate "spendy" too

‘Soft play’

Aaaargh

Wraparound care.

Sat her pondering whether I would say I'm having a dessert for pudding or a pudding for dessert. Feel like I've said that both ways and I wonder why my kids look at me blankly when I'm asking them things

What even is san pro?

'End of' = stroppy twat who knows nothing everything.

@JasminaPashmina Hun, kid is a baby goat. The correct term is child/children.

‘Kid’ makes my teeth itch and clutch my naice pearls.

Teeth itch.

Me and my friend, myself and my friend. Its my friend and me, or my friend and I. As in 'My friend and I went shopping' and 'the shop assistant asked my friend and me what we were looking for'.

The clues are there! Just say 'I went, they asked me.' We don't say 'Myself/me went', or 'they asked myself/I'. I see it all the time, not just on here.

Oh and 'less' instead of 'fewer'.

I had genuinely never heard an adult use the word ‘horrid’ before I joined MN. I instantly lose respect for any poster who uses it. If you’re seven, have plaits and a pinafore dress and are in a Children’s BBC drama set in the war, you can just about get away with it. If you’re an adult woman in 2019, you need your bumps feeling.

Someone has already said it, but ‘Cringe’ as an adjective. ‘That’s so cringe’. No it isn’t! Cringe is something you DO, not a description! You mean cringeworthy, for fuck’s sake.

This one is not unique to MN, but ‘my bad’ makes me want to scream. It sounds like something an infant still learning to talk would say. Is ‘mistake’ with its whole two syllables really such a trial?

"I'm sure you look amazing "
Someone is telling you they are feeling really down about how they present themselves and you tell them they look "amazing" this really is not helping, please tell them you're sure they look fine, but amazing?
Most of us don't look amazing and if someone tells you they feel ugly saying that they look "amazing" is minimising their feelings.

Littlies, teens and tweens. Nobody in my world uses those words. Sound so twee. What’s wrong with the term teenager? Or wee ones?

Or wee ones?

Oh God. Wee ones/little ones/LO are all as equally as irritating as littlies.

"Gutsing"- usually used in the context of how disgusting someone is for "gutsing" a whole slice of pizza to themselves I assume it's from "greedy guts" and I find it so incredibly spiteful. I've only ever seen it on here, and I always imagine the posters to be one of those women who've never struggled with their weight, and assumes those who do are ill disciplined, lazy and greedy.

They are definitely also the sort of women with sensible haircuts and who wear capri length trousers, always take on a pinched expression (the previously maligned "cat's bum mouth ) about something they feel qualified to make a moral judgement on. They judge women who spend more than 50p on facial skincare (probably for 'buying into the hype' and/or being profligate) and have lives as small as their minds. I may have thought about it a lot They're also the ones who make a Mumsnet chicken last for seventeen meals, and are competitive over small appetites and never, ever being frivolous about anything. Basically, next generation's fodder for MIL threads

I feel the same way about "troughing" fwiw - more coarseness I've only ever seen in writing as I've only ever seen it on here

Agree with all the snide ways of describing someone eating! So many strange attitudes to food on here.

Boobing isn't just on Mumsnet, it's all over loads of parenting groups, I loathe it.

'Do not have a child with this man'

'Are you 12?'

Been when the person means being. Overuse of myself instead of me because the person assumes me must be common.

Both look thick.

stillcoughing, I feel the same about 'gosh'. Who talks like that? And the use of words like chuck and bung when it comes to cooking. It sounds so joyless.

You sound unhinged.

It's the MN go to and it makes me cringe.

this need for darling"D"in front of a person they are describing

ie mother daughter son

you dont speak like that in real life why do it on the bloody internet

Overuse of myself instead of me because the person assumes me must be common

Oh god yes. I used to work with someone who used 'myself' all the time. And she was thick actually

Good god threads like this are what "makes my teeth itch" stop getting upset about fucking words they are words get upset about real life war crime death destruction terrorism abuse rape and cruelty grammar doesn't matter words don't matter and spelling doesn't matter Ffs