To call people Hun?

[hellcarryingahandbag]

Hi all,
I'm going start by saying that I've NEVER EVER used Nethuns! I clearly watch too much reality television as I call everybody Hun (not Hon which is too Americanised). I also call everybody darling. Am I an MN abomination?

Loathe it with a passion. The only person I know who uses it non-ironically is one of those FB sellers.

I have a colleague who calls people "lovely" (noun) as an endearment and I love it though!

Hate it.
Don't mind at all the local lingo like love, pet, hen or whatever people use in your neck of the woods. Its "lover" or "babber" round these parts. But Hun makes my skin crawl.

I work in retail and get called hun quite often by female customers. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.

It's awful. I would be cringing for you.

I live in Northern Ireland where Hun is a sectarian slur

Older people often hear Hun as a German slur.

i hate it. it sounds really patronising to me for some reason. (it also reminds me of the pervy man that lived near me when i was younger that always called me hun 🤢)

I find Hon less offence that Hun (at least the former is a genuine abbreviation of ‘Honey’) but both are pretty awful. I do, however, detest Hun.

MLM-tastic

It’s cringeworthy and incredibly fake.

no, just a lazy CF who can't be bothered to learn or use anybody's name.

almost as bad as ghastly people who abbreviate your name when you either do not like it shortened, or only expect people that you are close to to use a nickname.

I judge people if they do this. I just assume they are a really fake, vapid person. I don't mind local terms like petal, ducky etc, but hun is just awful.

I judge people who call me hun, but not as much as I judge those who say 'awww, bless you' when I haven't sneezed - both seem insincere and derivative of all the other airheads that seem to be multiplying by the day!

Down here in Essex its everyones name. I personally dislike it but I'm not from Essex.

It’s a bit Lieutenant George or Colonel Melchett.

‘Hun’ spelling always feels a bit illiterate, like the person doesn’t know what it’s short for. I know that’s not the case but it still jars.

It’s just so awful and cringe-y. Please don’t!

Also I grew up in America and have everyday connections there- I know no one who actually writes/verbally uses ‘Hon’ - at all in real life. Maybe it’s from the movies....They don’t even put x’s on texts. They don’t say Hon.

I kind of prefer "Hi hun" to "Hi lovely" or "my lovely" or (even worse) "lovely lady". Someone once called me "hunni bunni", which was a step too far.

What @JassyRadlett said, while also pointing out that it has a specific sectarian meaning in Ireland and Scotland and that meaning is not ‘Let’s all clap and prance in happy cross-community cohesion’.

I hate it. Also hate 'love', 'lovely', 'chick', 'darling'. I have a name, use it!

I'm another Scot who associates it with sectarianism.

I don't really like terms of endearment as a rule but Hun in particular doesn't sit right with me.

Absolutely hate it with a passion. A lot of the younger mums at primary seemed to use it. Yuk!

It is ‘hon’ short for honey.

Unless you actually are calling people a Hun.

I am literally a Hun. I am Hungarian.

My sister uses it but not with me, she knows better.

I disengage from anyone who refers to me as 'Hun'. So common (shudders)!

I do find it incredibly patronising but I wouldn't hold it against someone of they were otherwise decent.

Sadly they often aren't, I do however hold hollibobs and hubs against people...they are clearly morally deficit in every aspect and must be stopped.