'Foodstuffs' and other words too awful to mention.

[rabbitsnose]

Some words just really make me shudder. Also, 'meal' and 'helping' as in 'another helping of broccoli'. Noooo

Yourself

when misused when it should be 'you'.

Vista, unless you're Italian, it's a view.

Ah, OK, so it is Scottish. Is it a word more used in business though? If so it's annoying.
Any word that used to only be used in a particular industry and is now used by people who do not work in that industry is annoying.
Hence:

Property
Red Lip
Trouser
Plate Up
Prep
etc

Also 'wee' for small if you're not Scottish.

Also 'Scots' when you mean Scottish. Unless it actually is someone called Scot. Scot's sock is fine, for example.

Scrumptious. Sounds like a Victorian skin condition, not a way to describe cake.

'Cheeky' ... as in cheeky Nando's. What's so cheeky about it?! Am I missing something.
'Noms'
'Smidge'

I fully accept I'm being a dick about most of these and highly difficult but I can't bear

Mugged off.....ergh it's not grammatically correct (which I have no right to moan about because I am not always right either ) and have never seen it used by anyone i don't also think is a moron.

Gifted ....just no.

Boobies ....by anyone over the age of ten ....I mean come on, you are an adult woman and you have to use twee names for your breasts ? Just why?

I also concur with PP on " cheeky" anything .....again I'm an adult , if I want to eat , drink or ritually sacrifice anything I will frankly do so without a head tilt , sparkly giggle and explanation that I am having a cheeky one.

Ok , I may well be a grumpy old sod but I stand by my irrationality

@ALovelyBitOfSquirrel

I could of actually written your post.

The tiger stripes one especially makes me vom.

Anyone watch 'Inside the Factory' the other night? They were manufacturing Le Crueset pots. The historian woman was discussing Lancashire Hotpot and on screen was the most delicious looking hotpot ever.
Then appeared a scientist who explained the best way to make this amazing looking meal was to use rough cuts of lamb because you need lots of 'connective tissue'. That was all she said 'connective tissue', repeatedly. Put me right off the hotpot it did.

@LaMarschallin I can never remember because once the pronunciations start there then seems to proclamations of 'not saying it right' but then that is denounced as 'pretentious British pronunciation' or incorrect 'because it's Catalan and they don't say it that way'. It's tiring! No one agrees anyway and there's a seething resentment at the table.

I just say chore-itzo and watch WW3 erupt round the table. The waiter has totally understood me and I'm going to get some SPICY PAPRIKA SAUSAGE so who cares?! 😁

I hate it when 'the' is missed out. Inexplicably in three instances:

'"Give baby a choice of three foods".
"Don't use the iPad at table"
And the worst phrase and word ever. Used by adult Americans:
" I had to go potty"
Awful

"Talent pool" ok two words

No one else enraged by "FIB"?
Just say lie
I also hate "knock the door", "going Nando's" etc
And "passed" for dead or passed away.
I always have to say it in a ridiculous, questionable, deep southern American accent

Mouthfeel

Outwith is an amazing word and the first time I typed it and it got spell checked, I was totally confused. I must have retyped it 100 times trying to figure out what I had done wrong. I honestly don't know how the English language copes without it.

'Mum' or 'baby' being used in sentences like 'and how is mum' to new mothers. Or 'baby is growing well'. Say 'the baby' and 'how are you?' please.

Also, people using 'will' in this type of situation: I remember a reception telling me 'you will have received this letter'. Well, I didn't, so? She kept insisting that I 'will have received it'. Maybe I 'should' have received it, but I didn't, so why are you insisting I have?

Hate the usual - panties, moist etc but also really hate pamphlet & brochure. No idea why - they just sound stupid to me. Also the phrase “pitta pockets” makes me cringe so much I almost turn inside out. Urrrgh!!

Mine seems to all be food related...
I get Meal, especially when people say My Meal. Actually My Dinner etc makes me cringe too
helping - yup
Help themselves, especially in books
"She helped herself to the last piece of cake"
Plating up
serving/serving dinner
Veg instead of vegetables
Spag instead of spaghetti (fuck off)
Feeling hungry (no idea why)
And the way my date writes the word 'fridge' with apostrophes around it.

Also the new branding campaign thing where they put
"Brand x Z List celebrity"

Also "instructions on pack" "sale in store"

I have irrational food vocabulary related rage. ‘All the trimmings’ in relation to side dishes makes

Yes.

Also, on MN, "Perfectly acceptable".

"Tucked up in bed and fast asleep" when said about adults.

I read 'tantie' recently to mean 'tantrum'. Horrible.

I also hate "knock the door"

Which reminds me. Chap the door. I know it's regional but still irritates me. Chapped and chap to me refer to lips.

‘Hive mind’

* I could of actually written your post*

The tiger stripes one especially makes me vom

Kindred spirits 😂

@dreamingofrainbows it's so incredibly vomit inducing isn't it

Wow, just wow!

To 'prep', 'source', or 'curate' anything
'Mugged off' and 'going for a fag' - looking at you dd1
'soiled' in terms of a nappy - as if the babies will care if we say 'dirty'
One of my colleagues uses the phrase 'stinkin' cute' - I'm a pretty calm person but that makes me want to punch her

"Educated guess" on quiz shows.

Of course, you can use a piece of information to try to work out an answer if you don't know it for sure; that's an educated guess.

Saying, "I said if I didn't know the answer, I'd go straight down the middle, so I'll make an educated guess at B" isn't.
It's just a guess.