Why the use of DH,DD,DS,DC?

[angell84]

Why are they used parrot fashion by every user on mumsnet?

It is ridiculous! Where is any independent thought? Every single post is littered with hundreds of DH's, DS's, DD's and DC's.

Who calls their husband, "dear husband"? It is pretentious for a start. But what really annoys me is why does everyone say the exact same "code" as each other on here. It seems like a teenage thing to do

@24hourshomeedderandcarer But we DO talk like that in real life. We abbreviate things for our convenience. Like 'Don't' rather than 'do not', etc. If you mean we don't say 'Darling Husband', that's irrelevant. It works better as a 2 letter acronym because single letters are more easily misunderstood/mistyped.

It's when people start saying 'DD6' to mean 'daughter aged 6' that it all gets a bit confusing, because the 6 refers to the birth order, usually.

You can usually figure out birth order vs age by context

Does anyone still use SWI? I spend a lot of time on the TTC boards and don't see it, but DH was reading some Grauniad article on MN and found it hilarious.

Thanks, @Sparklingbrook for the acronyms list. It reminded me that BFP and BFN have to be among the silliest. I still use them, though..

After a day commenting on a thread, I messaged my dog groomers and said my husband would be bringing in the dogs... I used DH. "DH will be dropping off the dogs at X time"

I cringed, but now reading this I wish I wrote DDog 😂

I like it. It can stand for ‘dear’ husband, or equally could stand for ‘demented’ or ‘dickhead’ husband, depending on the circumstances!

I cringed, but now reading this I wish I wrote DDog 😂

I love my DDog, so stick that where the sun don't shine OP

I don't use them, never have, they really grate on me! Worse is calling other peoples' kids 'DC'. Also the pointless adding of a D before a full word. DNextDoorNeighbour. DBrotherinlaw. Hate it!

Oh and I love my dog more than 99.99% of bloody people! I wouldn't put a D before the descriptor DOG to indicate to randoms on the internet how much I love him!

When you think about it, there's far more serious things to get annoyed about. It's just shorthand not the Corona Virus.

Yes people don’t say darling husband in real life but you would use your husbands name which is quicker than saying ‘my husband’ all the time.

Anyway op, do continue, we await your response to things not working how you like.

HTH is the worst. Always used by someone being a bit of a cunt.

I generally use it for patronising sexist idiots on here. They cunted first is my excuse.

I hate the D prefixes. It sounds so Stepford wives. I’ve never used it and never will. I find it amusing the general sheep that use it love to laugh and bitch at anyone who uses hubby, as though they’re soo much cooler (when clearly they just blindly copy the majority and have nothing cool about them).

Haha honeyroar, yeah, people like you are so maverick, not like the “sheeple”

Things like that are what makes Mumsnet great

hate the D prefixes. It sounds so Stepford wives. I’ve never used it and never will. I find it amusing the general sheep that use it love to laugh and bitch at anyone who uses hubby, as though they’re soo much cooler (when clearly they just blindly copy the majority and have nothing cool about them)

DH etc is an internet abbreviation. Not just MN. Hubby is a pile of twee shite.

@Honeyroar we are just so unoriginal to use an abbreviation understood on forums for years, don’t know what we were thinking ! Oh and ‘Hubby’ sounds like something a self proclaimed “yummy mummy” would say which quite frankly is nauseating .

I mean I don’t actually use the DH acronyms etc but I don’t think that makes me anything special and I don’t care if other people do

Hubby is less fucking dreadful that hubster though.

Nothing wrong with DH. It’s internet shorthand.

It’s the “dear” at the start of the abbreviation makes it as twee as hubby, if not more so. It’s not just a regular abbreviation, it’s a tacky one. I’ve never seen DH used anywhere else on the internet but here (or people kick off at people using hubby, which has been around for decades, my mother used it in the 70s).

I don't know anyone in real life who uses hubs/hubby/hubster, which is probably lucky as I don't think I could hold back my derision.

I suspect it's the same type of people who use Crimbo/hollibobs/sups, to be honest

I find it amusing the general sheep that use it love to laugh and bitch at anyone who uses hubby, as though they’re soo much cooler (when clearly they just blindly copy the majority and have nothing cool about them)

'Hubby' is both twee and cringily lower-middle-class. The people who have hubbies also go on their hollibobs, give shout-outs to the famalam, count how many sleeps till Crimbo, wear jammies, and eat sarnies and veggies. Probably while living their best life because they have a LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE sign on their kitchen wall. They are completely without irony.

I hate the D prefixes. It sounds so Stepford wives.

I hear DH with varying degrees of irony, but to me it's just a net abbreviation and it doesn't imply anything. On the other hand there's a whole lot of baggage to "hubby" - to me it implies "person I used to fancy but now I patronise them and don't want to shag them". Which is fine if that's the impression you want to give.

I like the "d" prefix. Referring to everyone as darling is amusing and nice!
Plus it makes me feel all posh and cultured. "Oh darling would you please saddle the horses?" a bit like her in to the Manor Born! LOL