Words I hate...I AIBU I know but I want to tell you mine and hear yours.

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Smellies.

What an ugly word for something as nice as beauty or bath products.

Booze.

So SLOPPY sounding. BOOZE...no...no...no.

I hate it when pretentious dicks say a room is a "space"

I also hate pretentious use of clothing terms, like "a crisp white trouser"

Gotten- I hate that the use of this 'word' has increased.

I’m a Brit, living in the US

Panties. Ugh just don’t

Preggo and preggers are repulsive.

Cannot believe this post has 14 pages and no one has mentioned the inappropriate 'randoming'. As in a bit random?

I am on a board for English speaking mothers. (not in the UK so many asking for tips and pointers). Someone posted 'Hey guys, sorry for the most RANDOM post EVER but can any of you recommend somewhere to get long sleeve t.shirts'? Talk about disappointed. I really wanted to suggest she look up the words random and ever in a dictionary before she goes shopping but we're supposed to be helpful and supportive.

Pop of colour. Particularly when applied in the context of a room being so grey that people assume you've taken the photo in black and white.

Also the lapin/rabbit misdirection is hilarious. Though possibly less so for the sacrificial rabbits.

Things are 'sourced' these days too

Quince (just a horrible collection of sounds. Makes me think of fannies for some reason.)

Cardamom (I have an irrational hatred of this word. The m at the end sounds totally wrong.)

Needs gone - just awful.

Trainings - I’m seeing this one more and more. No plural needed!

I also hate many mentioned above: panties, brolly, hubby, holibobs. Also bonking e.g. ‘bonk buster’, though that is at least funny.

Lush

Agree with loads of these! Cannot stand 'lashings of' eg butter. A poster the other day about Xmas day breakfast said they had smoked salmon with 'lashings of champagne' urghhhhh made me cringe

Text used in the past tense instead of texted.

I love this thread. DP doesn't get annoyed by anything and I do allllll the time:

cologne4711 omg gifting. nope.
flaviaritt I HATE "shop". 'Shop Christmas' ...no.

I also hate (there's a list...)

'to be fair' were you being unfair? massively overused

'treat yourself' for buying things

'pre-planning' planning is preparation, how can you pre-prepare?

yourself/myself used wrongly

'pieces' for clothes in a wardrobe. Also, I do not 'curate' clothes, nor do I need to hear 'collection'. Im not a fffing designer, this isn't art. I shop in FARA. ohh... and 'haul'. you bought clothes, you didn't go fishing.

'I'm just gonna go ahead and...' just annoying (SIL says it a lot)

Also, not a word, but when those social media videos of people putting on clothes/shoes etc. and they wiggle the item they're holding around in front of the camera. I can see they are a pair of shoes, I don't need you to do the little wiggle thing.

....and breathe....

veggies

We already have these words. Vegetables, or the shorter but equally useful 'veg'

@bearlyactive

Weirdly, "meal". I have no idea why. I say it myself sometimes, but I hate it!

I'm the same!!

Exquisite I don't like either.

Hubby
'This one'
Mama bear
Boobing instead of breastfeeding
Twas- makes me shudder everytime I see or hear it
#blessed
Furbabies
It was a struggle even typing theae words out 😖

Lots of things already mentioned. Picky tea and picky bits are awful. Bits on its own is bad enough. I struggle with people describing eating anyway. Obviously om nom nomming can fuck off but it can take yum and yummy with it and any affected descriptions of eating like oh I nibbled at/tore into/picked at/ate a few crumbs etc. No. Any affectation actually. People on here are always "popping" out or "just grabbing a few bits" or "throwing on a nice top and jeans". All this airy, affected, feigned nonchalance makes me feel irrationally angry. Food abbreviations too. Jacket pots and veg and tommy k and spag bol. All of it. STOP.

Also, the words super and amazing have become triggers for rage. That's a MN thing. Useless husbands are always "amazing dads" (amazing usually means they do some childcare) or feckless boyfriends provide "amazing sex" which is code for 'treats me like shit when he isn't getting his end away'. Everything is super too. Super happy, super pleased, super annoyed. Stop. Saying. Super. And while you're bettering yourself, sentences do not need to start with "so" with the regularity you assume.

Keep coming in and out of this thread but also everything ShowofHands just said.

"From scratch" when making food. It makes me feel like it's full of skin bits.

'stadia', fora' and all the other latinised plurals of words that have fully transitioned into English and only need an 's' IMO - and the sooner the dictionaries get on board and off the fence, the better . I am internally judgy of people who do it, and I judge that they are the same people who talk about 'myself' instead of 'me' too.

Only 2 more sleeps until x event.

When people say something like "they gave it to my husband and I". Can't they hear that "they gave it to I" is wrong?

@TheVamoosh

When people say something like "they gave it to my husband and I". Can't they hear that "they gave it to I" is wrong?

They don’t seem to make that connection. They didn’t pay attention during grammar lessons, clearly.

And when people write "would of" it makes me want to ask if they always replace "have" with "of" and, if so, WHY???

Apologies, I know this has been done to death.